Are the US and China headed for a new cold war?

The World

Closed consulates in Houston, Texas, and Chengdu, China, are just the latest in a series of escalating tensions between the US and China. The World’s Marco Werman speaks to China foreign policy expert Jessica Chen Weiss from Cornell University about where the relationship is headed.

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