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New cold war

The cold war (1947-1991), a chilling 44-year standoff, witnessed a terrifying triumvirate of lethal weapons: ICBMs (Soviet R-7 Semyorka and American Minuteman missiles), nuclear submarines (USS George Washington, SSBN-598, and…

How to navigate a new cold war

The US-China competition, also referred to as US-China rivalry, carries multiple implications in its wake for the world. Meanwhile, Pakistan-China cooperation is embedded in decades of mutual trust. Post 9/11,…

Back to the cold war?

Does the tiff between the United States and China prefigure a return to the politics of the cold war era (1945-89), which divided the world into two hostile blocs for…

Not your dad’s cold war

A world order descended upon us after WW2. This order was called the cold war. The world was neatly divided in two by an iron curtain. Our dictators found themselves…

A new cold war

Political analysts and world watchers viewed the burgeoning rivalry between the US and China as the possible beginning of yet another cold war era. That process seems to have been…

Echoes of the Cold War

AS sabre-rattling continues in the crisis over Ukraine, shifting geopolitics have pushed Russia and China into closer alignment while exposing differences within the Western coalition on how to respond. It has further…

How hot could US-China ‘Cold War’ get?

Tensions are mounting by the day between the United States and China, leading to talk of a new Cold War. Experts see important historical differences — but believe the two…