TOKYO -- The U.S. and China are headed toward a cold war, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso said Monday, predicting that tensions between the two superpowers will persist even after President Donald Trump leaves office.
"Future historians will say that the Reiwa era" -- Japan's current Imperial era, which began in 2019 -- "was the beginning of a new cold war between the U.S. and China," Aso said at a meeting in Tokyo.
