The new cold war (Part – I)
In 1946, Sir Winston Churchill said, “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.” This marked the beginning of the…
Cold war II
THE North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and the People’s Republic of China share a year of inception — 1949 — but beyond that have hitherto largely stayed out of each other’s…
In Davos, the spectre of a tech cold war
China and the United States may have laid down their arms for now in a trade truce, but their technological rivalry is still raging, raising the spectre of a high…
Post-Cold War imperialism
The certainties of the Cold War era gave way after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the complexities of our present world. These complexities have been exacerbated…
New Cold War?
Both Pakistan and China have given a fitting reply to the uncalled for and ill-informed US criticism of and objection to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). But more than the…
Cold war 2.0
President Trump has threatened China’s President Xi that if they don’t meet and talk at the upcoming G20 meetings in Japan, June 29-30, the United States will not soften its…
The new Cold War
US Vice President Pence last week declared a new Cold War against China. America has now decisively stepped into the Thucydides Trap — the Ancient Greek historian’s thesis that a…
The second cold war
Though it is premised on some serious options of hot engagement as well, as is happening in Syria when US planes took down an entirely bona fide Russian aircraft on…
The cold war option
Fleeting moments George W Bush, who started wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, was hawkish. He boasted about the superiority of the American military juggernaut and considered the world its battleground.…
The post-Cold War world
Not content with the implosion and break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, a triumphal capitalist west embarked on a plan to prevent Russia from recovering from the debacle and…
