Sergio Gor Could Change History

Incoming U.S. Ambassador

- M.D. NALAPAT

Sergio Gor may not even read this edit, nor take it seriously were he to, but the way he functions as the US envoy to India once confirmed by the US Senate may make all the difference in the outcome of Cold War 2.0. The new Cold War between China and the US is being fought across the globe, being fought across the world in the way the earlier Cold War fought between the US and the Soviet Union was.

President Trump is justified in renaming the Department of Defense as the War Department, for the US is indeed at war with China. Such a war is not being fought kinetically thus far, exactly the way Cold War 1.0 was. Despite some anxious moments such as the Berlin airlift during 1946-49 or the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. The Cuban crisis came close to a kinetic war, and it was as a consequence of the Cuban crisis filling the minds of the US public and policymaking communities that CCP Chairman Mao Zedong felt emboldened that the US would not intervene were the PLA to invade India, which they did during October-November 1962.