Since the disastrous withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan, the 1970s have become fashionable again. Didn't the fall of Kabul on August 16 last in a caricatural way that of Saigon on April 30, 1975? The Americans had then abandoned their South Vietnamese ally in panic, bowing to the northern communists, just as they gave way to the Taliban this summer without firing a shot. Likewise, the current surge in energy prices echoes the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions. The Cold War between Washington and Moscow was at its peak at the time. Political scientists, such as Dominique Moïsi in France, agree today that
"the new cold war has begun"
, this time between the United States and China.
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China-United States: the dangerous face-to-face
Will the cocktail of economic and political tensions lead to “stagflation”, characteristic of the 1970s?
This neologism had been specially coined to designate the unnatural mixture
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