US-China rivalry in Asia: Fifty years after the Berlin Wall froze Europe, a perceptible frost is settling over the Malacca Strait. One needed only a quarter hour of US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s oratory at the Shangri-La Dialogue to feel the temperature plunge. His warning of an imminent Chinese threat drew the predictable rebuke from Beijing—yet what truly rattled the region was the echo of an age many believed entombed with the Soviet archives. A second Cold War is not a historian’s…