Review: Fighting the second Cold War, lab by lab

Reuters | Updated: Jul 26, 2019, 6:39 IST

(The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)By Pete SweeneyHONG KONG, July 26 (Reuters Breakingviews) - U.S. scientific power is a potent diplomatic weapon. Greg Whitesides's new book details how Washington used research largesse to reward friends and punish the Soviet Union. Now a similar conflict is brewing with China, a more formidable rival. This time, there can be no winner.Full view will be published shortly.On Twitter https://twitter.com/petesweeneyproCONTEXT NEWS- "Science and American Foreign Relations since World War II" by Greg Whitesides was published by Cambridge University Press in December 2018.- For previous columns by the author, Reuters customers can click on- SIGN UP FOR BREAKINGVIEWS EMAIL ALERTS: http://bit.ly/BVsubscribe(Editing by Peter Thal Larsen and Katrina Hamlin)

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