A second cold war has already begun as should be generally marked by the trade war. Like it or not, the U.S. tried its best to kneecap China like it did to Japan during the late 20th century but all attempts against China had backfired horribly and they can't take anything back. For instance, Huawei is leading in the decoupling process, though not only Chinese entities, but entities around the world including European entities as they will all look to be more cautious if they were too reliant on U.S. entities.
The IEEE, as another example, attempted discrimination against Chinese people which failed utterly after the realization that Chinese scientists contribute heavily to research in modern communications (e.g. for instance, Chinese researchers are already leading in 6G etc.).
It seems Washington is deciding to commit and plunge their country further down the drain because you know how Anglo culture is with saving face - the widespread Anglo cultural phenomenon of the micropenis syndrome encourages them to "save face".
From what I’ve read here apparently a decent amount of Asian people are anti-Chinese.
But yeah it’s terrifying how hard the US is going with this and how suddenly it started, I’m not here to push leftism or anything, but I would say a decent amount of dot connecting I’ve been doing with politics and history makes me feel like this country is really getting prepared for either another Cold War or World War III. Fuck, a lot of people are saying the Second Cold War has already started, which, given the different conditions between then and now, I have no hope that it won’t become World War III. America should change its dangerous course, but I know for a fact it won’t and I bet in less than a year it will be invading Iran (though I hope it doesn't).