Competition, not just economic, but also cultural. Marshall Plan, but also "jim crow is making us look bad". Cold-war "they need papers to travel, while we just

Competition, not just economic, but also cultural. Marshall Plan, but also "jim crow is making us look bad". Cold-war "they need papers to travel, while we just (anonymously) buy a ticket and that's it" revulsion and pride, later seemed less compelling. Outgroup stabilization of identity? It's struck me as odd, how narratives around current China seem different than for cold-war USSR. Less identity-threat defensiveness and self-affirming pride, more indifference, and denial, than panics and pride. We still have US vs European heath care stories. With the USSR, we had many such, but with China, not so much.