Commentary / World Apr 28, 2021
The Cold War playbook won’t help Alexei Navalny
by Hal Brands
That Navalny ended his hunger strike and his life isn’t in imminent danger — for now — doesn't remove the underlying issue.
Commentary / World Apr 8, 2021
U.S.-China cold war will have more than two sides
by Pankaj Mishra
The real danger ahead, however, is not so much a new cold war as binary modes of thinking that see stark divisions and antagonisms where none exist.
Commentary / Japan Feb 23, 2021
Hands up, hands off: China blames U.S. for troubled relationship
by Brad Glosserman
Maintaining that Beijing has no role or responsibility for troubles in U.S.-China relations will guarantee that those problems get worse.
World / Politics Feb 8, 2021
George Shultz, U.S. secretary of state who helped usher out Cold War, dies at 100
One of the most consequential policymakers of all time, according to some, Shultz served under three American presidents.
Commentary / World Dec 22, 2020
New tricks and old truths for the world’s second oldest profession: spying
by Brad Glosserman
The SolarWinds attack was a supply chain hack. One of the most successful U.S. espionage programs of the Cold War was a 20th-century version of this attack.
World | FOCUS Sep 3, 2020
Pentagon's latest salvo against China's growing might: Cold War bombers
by David Lague
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.
Commentary / World Aug 28, 2020
U.S.-China confrontation not a replay of the Cold War
by Haruaki Deguchi
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.
Commentary / World May 17, 2020
China rivalry may put the U.S. back in the coup business
by Hal Brands
As in the Cold War, Washington might once again find itself seeking covert options to prevent important countries from aligning with Beijing.
Commentary / World Nov 20, 2019
Europe and U.S. are refighting the Cold War
by Hal Brands
Trans-Atlantic dispute sheds light on the best approach to China and Russia today.
Asia Pacific / Politics Feb 5, 2019
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 ...
National / Politics Feb 4, 2019
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 ...
World Feb 1, 2019
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 ...