Absent a fundamental change in the Chinese Communist Party, a rivalry status that is colder than the Cold War between the two countries is unlikely to shift in any meaningful way.

"In the Cold War, the biggest part of the CIA was devoted to measuring the Soviet economy," he said. "We got rid of that. We've never brought it back. We need to bring it back.”

We went through the war, the postwar “liberal” order was born, and the Cold War began soon after. The rhetorical apparatus of that period that lasted 40 years was that freedom was battling tyranny.

Washington initially deployed its Typhon missile system in April 2024 for drills, the first time since the Cold War that the intermediate-range, land-based launchers were hosted outside U.S. territory.

As such, the nation’s European allies have begun to express concern that the United States is backing away from its commitment to the NATO alliance as well as its historic Cold War role as a defender of Europe from Russian aggression.

Commentary Europe’s military relations with China are going full circle, from Cold War-era military technology collaboration during the brief Western entente with China against the former Soviet Union, to now a military target of the Chinese Communist

UK's Spending Pledges In March 2025, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged the largest sustained increase in defense spending since the Cold War, aiming to lift it to 3 percent of gross domestic product in the next parliament.

However, the Chinese Embassy in Wellington did respond, condemning Patel's remarks as “groundless assertions” and evidence of “a Cold War mentality.”

In the days since the Cold War, the number of France’s tanks has dropped from 1,349 to 222 and the number of fighter aircraft from 686 to 254.

That team was made up of college players who defeated the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. The political stakes were enormous. Diplomatic channels were frozen at the time. The Moscow Olympics would soon be boycotted.

John Ikenberry’s theory: Unlike past defeated powers, Russia, in the immediate post-Cold War period, embraced the post-1945 order, expecting restraint from the U.S. hegemon.

A New Cold War? Milley’s remarks came on the heels of the release of a new Heritage Foundation report (pdf), which holds that the United States has entered into a new Cold War with China and outlines a defensive plan to counter the threat.

Copeland presents his case by using case studies of the American Revolution, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the Oregon Territory dispute with Great Britain, the Spanish–American War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War conflicts of

they were German militarists or Austro-Hungarian militarists or Nazism in Germany or fascism in Italy or Japanese militarism or during the Cold War in Korea to stop communist aggression in Vietnam, same thing.

Set in the 1960s, these compelling stories follow Gabriel Dax, a travel writer turned reluctant MI6 asset, from London to Cold War hotspots like Eastern Europe, Guatemala, and Berlin.

Commentary At the end of the Cold War while the “Eastern Bloc” was dissolving rapidly, most Western economies entered into a recession. So the “winners” of the Cold War were not in a position to extract vengeance from the “losers.”

In 2013, Obama was possibly the first U.S. leader to acknowledge the existence of Area 51, an Air Force base built during the Cold War, which has long been rumored to house extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects (UFOs).

Many trace their origins back to the Cold War era, when concerns about national sovereignty, cultural identity, and supranational integration first arose.

The move utilises Australia's “over-the-horizon” technology and replaces the Cold War-era North Warning System, which is no longer capable of countering modern missile threats.

Duncan Smith warned that a struggle like those fought in the Cold War and World War II was resurging and would demand a firm response from the free nations of the world.

This convergence of state-aligned commercial interests, organized crime, and strategic manufacturing relocation creates a hybrid threat environment unlike traditional Cold War espionage.

As America entered the Cold War, his villains transformed from mobsters in the 1930s to corrupt businessmen and mad scientists in the 1960s, but the underlying principle never changed: justice through persistence.

Batista cooperated completely in keeping German submarines out of the Caribbean during World War II, and he was a staunch anti-communist through the opening phase of the Cold War.

While the United States has promoted this post-Cold War order, Rubio said other nations, including competitors like China, have furthered their interests.

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Shapps said the “peace dividend” that followed the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s was over. Mr.

He said that although the United States and China are unlikely to fully decouple economically as the United States and Soviet Union once did during the Cold War, strategic competition—particularly in the Indo-Pacific—is expected to intensify.

Lula opened the summit with a speech in which he drew a parallel to the Cold War-era Non-Aligned Movement, a group of developing nations that sought to remain neutral and avoid aligning with either the United States or the Soviet Union.

“It’s not Cold War-style arms dumping, but something subtler and arguably more effective,” Gorrie wrote. “Perhaps the most consequential support China can provide is not physical at all.”

The end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union produced comparative peace until terrorism crested with the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.