List of Cold War articles
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French President Emmanuel Macron gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese President Xi Jinping following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019. Europeans Want to Stay Out of the New Cold War
New polling shows that Europeans think a struggle between Washington and Beijing is unavoidable—but want no part of it.
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A statue of Mao Zedong Ideological Competition With China Is Inevitable—Like It or Not
Beijing recognizes promoting human rights and democracy is an ideological challenge. So should Washington.
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Schoolchildren and their teacher peer out from under their desks during a Cold War air raid drill Be Wary of China Threat Inflation
Look at what happened with the Soviet threat in the Cold War.
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george blake simon kuper book Before Jihadi John, There Was George Blake
The British KGB double agent was a forerunner of today’s radicalized Western jihadis.
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The U.S. and Chinese flags stand behind a microphone. The World Might Want China’s Rules
Washington shouldn’t assume its values are more attractive to others than Beijing’s.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People. Why Washington Is Fed Up With Beijing
Decades of failed efforts to woo China explain the Biden administration’s tough talk ahead of Alaska meeting.
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U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State George Shultz at the London Economic Summit on June 8, 1984. Was George Shultz America’s Best Secretary of State?
Reagan’s top diplomat ended the Cold War and reshaped the world.
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Flags of different countries hang from a house in Aylesbury, United Kingdom, on May 8, 2020. This Is the Year Democracies Fight Back
Liberal states have been on the defensive for too long.
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containment-soviet-era-modern-threat-china-foreign-policy-ula-sveikauskaite-illustration-article The Return of Containment
What the Cold War policy means for our current moment.
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Chinese then-Vice President Xi Jinping and U.S. then-Vice President Joe Biden view an honor guard inside the Great Hall of the People on Aug. 18, 2011 in Beijing. America Needs To Talk About a China Reset
Biden and Trump are debating who is the bigger China hawk. Instead, the next administration should learn from the Cold War to defuse the rivalry.
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Workers iron a Chinese national flag while a U.S. national flag is placed in front of a Chinese traditional painting before a meeting of the U.S. National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi at Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on May 27, 2013 in Beijing, China. China and the United States Are in a Race to Lose Power
A new cold war is starting, and neither side seems interested in winning.
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A worker removes the sign at the entrance to the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province, China, on July 25. There’s No Cold War With China
Applying 20th-century analogies to the U.S.-Chinese relationship is a misuse of history—and shows a misunderstanding of the present.
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Policemen march in front of the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, China on July 26. The Chengdu mission was ordered shut in retaliation for the forced closure of Beijing's consulate in Houston, Texas. Is This the Beginning of a New Cold War With China?
The clash between Washington and Beijing could be the start of a new ideological confrontation—or the inevitable fallout from a power transition.
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China's President Xi Jinping arrives at a meeting during a BRICS Summit. China Can Buy Influence, but It Can’t Buy Love
The Chinese government could learn a thing or two about soft power from a long-gone and much-maligned socialist regime: East Germany.
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The lowering of the Chinese flag on Tiananmen Square in Beijing Silicon Valley Can’t Be Neutral in the U.S.-China Cold War
Firms like Zoom show that “one company, two systems” doesn’t work.
