Are we on the brink of a new cold war? | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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David Sanger, Pulitzer prize-winning national security correspondent for The New York Times, joins Ian Bremmer on GZERO World to offer a clear-eyed take on America’s adversaries. The takeaway: we’re entering a new and increasingly unstable era of geopolitics where the US, China, and Russia will be vying for power and influence like never before.

Check the comments for more about Ian's insights, and let us know what you think!

“We are back in a period of superpower competition that will probably go on for decades. And that, if we're lucky, remains a cold war.” David Sanger, a Pulitzer prize-winning national security correspondent for The New York Times, joins Ian Bremmer on a new episode of GZERO World to offer a clear-eyed take on America’s adversaries. He’s out with a new book called "New Cold Wars: China's Rise, Russia's Invasion, and America's Struggle to Defend the West." The takeaway: we’re entering a new and increasingly unstable era of geopolitics where the US, China, and Russia will be vying for power and influence like never before. China's rise as a world leader and economic powerhouse, along with Russia's nuclear saber-rattling and increasing military cooperation, poses an unprecedented challenge to US dominance.

But unlike the Cold War that dominated the 20th century, where the US and the Soviet Union could operate essentially independently from each other, the world today is far more connected. "It's a cold war that bears almost no resemblance to the one that you and I are old enough to remember, because in that Cold War, we had a single competitor, and we weren't dependent on them, nor they on us for very much."

Sanger also talks about America’s missed opportunities and misjudgments in dealing with Russia and China. There were early hopes of engagement with Russia under Yeltsin's presidency, which quickly eroded when Putin came to power. Similarly, there was a belief that integrating China into the global economy would lead to political reform. However, this bet did not play out as expected, with the Communist Party using digital forces for explicit repression techniques. "It became pretty evident, pretty clearly that the Communist party had learned how to take these same digital forces and use them for the most explicitly designed repression techniques we have ever seen.”

But one area where both Russia and China have a shared interest? Pitting Americans against each other. “They have every incentive, both Russia and China, to be subtle actors in the background of this coming presidential election,” Sanger tells Bremmer. “And that's one area where if they are not cooperating, it would pay them off considerably to coordinate.”

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West was also doing the same thing with democracies of global south though media & NGOs. 😒

KausikGupta-lvho

Is this the best strategist that West has?? I am so disappointed

hskk

I wish these interviews were longer. They are only like 10 minutes after the intro

danielm

Good conversation. It's hard to argue with any of it.

hydroac

If isolationism takes hold in the United States, standby to watch the world tear itself apart

IAm-NotHear

What to take home from a very good interview? We have to realize that autocratic regimes have got the capacity to run with the ball and score touchdowns, but if they win the game, the world changes the rules forever on its existence.

TEKANNON-bzfm

In America, law describing "GUILTY" Person or Entities who KNOWINGLY PROVIDE any form of "Help" like money, Wapons, housings, transportation, documents to the Killers.

bobwilk

Gzero is geopolitics without conspiracy theories. Much appreciated!

SeverusAlexanderAugustus

Biden and Xi both said that we need cooperation, not confrontation

dzxy

There were plenty of voices that cautioned about China's rise, but people ignored them and even were hostile to the very notion. We reap what we have sown.

angliccivilization

NOBODY LIKES US & WEST HEGEMONY AS MAFIA DON.

kamalabuhenamostafa

Influence operations don’t support candidates or parties. The purpose is to create distrust in the American political system. They need Americans to fight among each other, because together they are unstoppable.

chillxxx

I wouldn't say a new Cold War like the US and USSR but a new era of great power competition

dogood

These were totally one sided answers, when he was talking about putin and bush he didn't even mention NATO expansion to Russia's borders, NATO desire to add Georgia and directly jumped to the 2007 Munich conference.

gangeshkale