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What to Expect When You're Expecting a New Cold War
A U.S. struggle with China won’t look exactly like the struggle with the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, seen here working on ending the last cold war.
Photographer: Bill Fitzpatrick/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
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Maybe because people of a certain age (mine, roughly) create so much of our entertainment, we never seem to stop reliving the 1980s, like we’re a whole culture of Uncle Ricos. And mostly it’s fine. “Cobra Kai” is our era’s “Anna Karenina,” for example, and many of the 47 other ’80s-themed TV shows are not terrible, either. The musical influences are tolerable.