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The new cold war: what we know after the G7
VIJAY PRASHAD explains how the latest G7 meeting in Hiroshima exposed the steps the West is taking around the world in its drive towards a full-blown world war against the East
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IN July 2020, a group of us joined together to create the No Cold War platform (nocoldwar.org). We drafted a statement with a strong title: A new cold war against China is against the interests of humanity.
The statement reads: “We note the increasingly aggressive statements and actions being taken by the US government in regard to China. These constitute a threat to world peace and are an obstacle to humanity successfully dealing with extremely serious common issues which confront it such as climate change, control of pandemics, racist discrimination and economic development.
“We, therefore, believe that any new cold war would run entirely counter to the interests of humanity. Instead, we stand in favour of maximum global co-operation in order to tackle the enormous challenges we face as a species.
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