The new Cold War is already among us, but Europeans are not interested in fighting it

We are not looking for “a new Cold War”, says Joe Biden from the glass palace of the United Nations trying to design the new American century: not a frontal or proxy conflict, however hard and wide-ranging, with China, but vigorous competition , which will need “tireless diplomacy”. The president of the United States is aware of the challenge but seems to shy away from confrontation, in this interpreting widespread perceptions in European public opinion.