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	Pick of this week's Opinion October 13, 2018

	MINXIN PEI:  US and China face  growing risk of military  clashes as conflict   intensifies The trade war between Washington  and Beijing is turning into a  more serious conflict between   the world's two strongest  powers, warns Minxin Pei. A struggle that has already  been dubbed the new Cold War  could even see armed clashes,  notably in the South China Sea.  Even so, relations will get a  lot worse, before they could, conceivably, get better.
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