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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal.

This is Free Expression with Jerry Baker.

Hello and welcome to Free Expression from the Wall Street Journal. I'm Jerry Baker, editor at large of the journal.

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You're listening. This week, are we losing the new Cold War?

It's become axiomatic recently, and a source of rare bipartisan agreement, that the United States

is in a long strategic struggle for global leadership with the People's Republic of China.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, more than 30 years ago, America's supremacy

is seriously challenged by a powerful,

ideological rival. The outcome of this struggle is as essential to our way of life, as was the

outcome of the first Cold War. If China were to come to dominate the planet in the way the U.S.

has done for most of the last century, our freedoms would be increasingly constrained,

and the risks of instability and even violent conflict would surely rise.

In many ways, China's an even bigger threat than was the USSR back then,

a much more populous country with a more dynamic economy and a rapidly strengthening military capability.

And yet, despite acknowledging the challenge we face,

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