The former Soviet leader warned that the coronavirus pandemic has set Washington, D.C. and Beijing on the path to conflict.
Gorbachev's USSR was once America's greatest strategic challenge, but there is growing bipartisan agreement in Washington that China represents the most potent threat to American hegemony.
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives to watch to the Red Square Victory Day Parade, May 9, 2019 in Moscow, Russia. He has called on Russia to mediate between the U.S. and China as tensions continue to mount.China has framed the administration's criticism as a racist attempt to dodge blame for the pandemic's spread in the U.S., where more than 200,000 people have been killed by the virus to date.
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