China Is Not Soviet Union.

The new cold war has reached its climax. China has been challenging the uni-polarity of the US on every front. Countering China has become the supreme interest of the US in the twenty first century. Many scholars are of the view that the new cold war cannot end up in a similar fashion to the first: downfall of erstwhile USSR. Against the backdrop of the dissolution of the USSR, many authors came up with sweeping statements that communism has thrown up the sponge.

In this relation, Francis Fukuyama was on the forefront who compiled his exposition in his notable work-'The End of History and the Last Man'. He concluded, 'The end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.' In fact, the war against communism has never ended as China has taken up the mantle. China is the potential competitor which makes this game challenging for the US. As a matter of fact, there many factors that distinguish China from then USSR.

First of all, there is a difference in the nature of power. The former USSR was obsessed with defence and a...