Avoiding the Thucydides Trap: A New Bretton Woods and MAD for Markets
Book: Financial Cold War
Author: James A. Fok
ISBN: 9781119862765
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Chapter 8 is Fok’s closing argument. Kissinger opens with a warning: a new Cold War would be a historic tragedy if conflict is avoidable. The book spent seven chapters building the case that financial imbalances, not just ideology, drive Sino-US tension. Now Fok asks what to do about it.