不同于冷战的这种新型对立格局,美国所称的酷战,更多地是在为设置贸易壁垒找理论上的借口。美国《外交政策》杂志的主编大卫·罗斯科普夫最近撰文指出,美国正处于“酷战”(coolwar)之中,而中国是与美国进行“酷战”的潜在对手。在罗斯科普夫看来,“酷战”是“冷战”(coldwar)的继承者,二者都没有直接的军事冲突。但是“酷战”具有显著区别于“冷战”的特征。首先,“酷战”可能包含除直接军事行动以外的全部手段,目的在于通过侵犯别国的主权和削弱其防御力量来摧毁或削弱对手以 Unlike this new type of antagonistic pattern of the Cold War, what the United States called the Cold War is more of a theoretical excuse for setting up a trade barrier. David Roskopf, the chief editor of the U.S. foreign policy magazine, recently wrote that the United States is in a “cool war” and that China is a potential rival with the United States in its “cool war.” To Roskopf’s view, “Cold War” is the successor to “cold war” and neither one has a direct military conflict. However, the “cool war” has a distinctive feature that distinguishes itself from the “cold war”. First of all, “Cold War ” may contain all means other than direct military operations with the aim of destroying or weakening the opponent by infringing the sovereignty of other nations and weakening their defensive forces