Opinion - It's no longer debatable," scholars Hal Brands and John Lewis Gaddis wrote in Foreign Affairs in October 2021, "that the US and China . . . are entering their own new cold war." The conventional wisdom is that this new geopolitical competition will not spread to the global South, as it did during the first Cold War, with governments choosing sides and, in the process, dividing the world. "We don't believe," Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in July 2022, "in
