The New Cold War

Niblett's framing pushes past the reflexive Cold War analogy in the title to argue the US-China rivalry is structurally different, more economically entangled, more globally distributed across simultaneous fronts than the twentieth-century original ever was. Reviewers with foreign-policy backgrounds have credited the book's clarity in tying together disparate regional flashpoints, showing how signals sent in Ukraine reverberate into calculations about Taiwan. The more critical notices push back on the balance of the assessment itself, arguing Niblett underrates American resilience while overstating China's trajectory.