Pentagon's latest salvo against China's growing might: Cold War bombers
The U.S. has been intensifying its challenge to China and its sweeping territorial claims over one of the world's most important strategic waterways.
U.S.-China confrontation not a replay of the Cold War
Japan's only path is to uphold the security alliance with the U.S. while keeping relations with China as friendly as possible in order to make money.
China rivalry may put the U.S. back in the coup business
As in the Cold War, Washington might once again find itself seeking covert options to prevent important countries from aligning with Beijing.
Lithuania seeks to heal Soviet trauma after 30 years of freedom
Seeking justice for victims of the Soviet regime to heal historical trauma has become a top priority for Lithuania as it marks 30 years since it became the first republic to break away from the USSR. Take Auksute Ramanauskaite Skokauskiene, one of Lithuania's most prominent ...
U.S. and German spies read top-secret messages of 120 countries for decades
U.S. and German intelligence services raked in the top-secret communications of governments around the world for decades through their hidden control of a top encryption company, U.S., German and Swiss media reported Tuesday. The Swiss company, Crypto AG, was a top supplier of devices for ...
U.N. marks 75th anniversary in a world of distrust and shifting power
As the United Nations enters its 75th year, the world is still rife with mistrust: The United States remains the dominant superpower but is on the wane while Asian power is growing in the face of an increasingly fractured Europe, with an explosive Middle ...
Europe and U.S. are refighting the Cold War
Trans-Atlantic dispute sheds light on the best approach to China and Russia today.
Politicians and campaigners are urging Germany to use the lessons of its own reunification to help bring North and South Korea together, but Berlin is in no rush to take up the challenge. A second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader ...
Japan reluctantly endorses 'undesirable' U.S. exit from INF nuclear arms pact with Russia
The government on Monday endorsed the U.S. decision to withdraw from a key Cold War-era arms control treaty with Russia, but stressed that the move is seen as "undesirable." "We understand the U.S. awareness of problems that led it to announce it will halt its ...
U.S. secretly shipped Cold War-era plutonium to Nevada, raising safety fears and riling lawmakers
The U.S. government secretly shipped a large amount of deadly plutonium from a South Carolina site that produced the radioactive metal for nuclear bombs during the Cold War to Nevada, the Trump administration revealed on Wednesday. The Justice Department, on behalf of the Department of ...
U.S. vice president's sharp China attacks fuel Asia's fears of a new Cold War
Since the Soviet Union fell in the early 1990s, Southeast Asia has sought to avoid getting caught in a fight between major powers. The Trump administration is making that position look increasingly untenable. Vice President Mike Pence sharpened U.S. attacks on China during a week ...
Japan to urge U.S. not to leave nuke pact, citing possible arms race, North Korea denuclearization
The government plans to call on the United States not to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty with Russia, sources have said. Tokyo is concerned that Washington's possible unilateral withdrawal from the key nuclear treaty could accelerate its arms race with Russia and ...
