The Second Cold War: China and Russia Challenge the West.

China and Russia have reverted to their pre-1989 ways, fundamentally challenging the US-led West. The US and the West are worse off in their relationship with Russia, which is now ruled by an unpredictable Vladimir Putin. China has become a cyber-security state, and the US Department of Energy believes China may have sparked the coronavirus pandemic. Military experts believe a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is a high possibility in the coming years. The future the West expected in Eastern Europe and China never materialized, and the period the US and the West now enters may be more dangerous than the most icy days of the Cold War.