![]() Today, however, communications technology allows almost anyone, anywhere, to broadcast and exert influence with previously unimaginable scale, scope and speed. Thirty years ago, the flow of information was still largely top-down as the ability to broadcast remained limited, mostly to governments and corporate media. Reinforcing this complexity is a networked information environment that is fundamentally different from that of the Cold War. All these issues are highly interconnected and interdependent, and both Russia and China are fully and inextricably enmeshed in them all. These challenges include the entire range of complex issues - climate change, globalization, migration, economic contagion, info-sphere contamination, technology proliferation, supply-chain disruption, social trust erosion, pandemics, and such - that now dominate the strategic spectrum. If the above-mentioned military actions and their systemic ripples teach us anything it is that the challenges posed by Russia and China today are about so much more than their military power. But these historical echoes notwithstanding, buying into this new/second cold war characterization is not just a mistake - it is dangerous.
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