Coronavirus pandemic pushes US and China into new Cold War

Ideological difference provides new edge to already frayed relations

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Ideological differences between the U.S. and China have opened up amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Nikkei montage/AP)

HIROYUKI AKITA, Nikkei commentator

TOKYO -- While the U.S.-China relationship has become more toxic than ever since their dramatic rapprochement in the 1970s, the two have so far managed to avert a bigger blowup but the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the possibility for a further deterioration in ties.

Some had last year referred to increasingly frosty U.S.-China ties as a new Cold War, but that is an inaccurate description.

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