Sentence:  "At the same time, I can't help but wonder if the trade war is part of a bigger impending conflict," Dalio wrote, while Nielsen headlined his weekend missive "<WSD>Cold War II</WSD> seems to have broken out with no letup in sight." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The ongoing tensions between the United States of America and the People's Republic of China in the mid-2010s