The Aug. 1 deal, involving 26 prisoners, was the largest prisoner exchange since the ColdWar.
Andrew Thornebrooke and Jack Phillips contributed to this report.
Following the ColdWar, the West prematurely concluded that communism had failed, and many believed that communist China was reforming and integrating into the free market system.
At the start of the ColdWar, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was founded to protect Western democracies from communism. Seventy-three years later, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows it's time to reevaluate NATO’s purpose.
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ColdWar-Like Dynamic
After the victory, Takaichi struck a familiar tone, saying her government would pursue a “constructive and
new ColdWar is over, now in “hot war” with US
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49:32 Chinese leader Xi Jinping says he is preparing for war
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President Joe Biden has signed a war powers resolution, and
–Russia relations were at their “lowest point since the ColdWar” but described Trump’s effort to resolve the war in Ukraine and invitation to Alaska as “very neighborly.”
August 16, 2025By Andrew Thornebrooke, Ryan Morgan
NATO was founded in 1949 in the wake of the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin, which forced Washington to airlift food and other necessities into the besieged German capital at the start of the ColdWar.
Against the backdrop of the Ukraine conflict, the alignment of these major camps suggests the emergence of a new ColdWar, characterized by heightened tensions yet falling short of the global conflagration of World War II."
In the ColdWar period, it was much easier to use the term capitalism in a way that would convey meaning because it was deployed in contradistinction to the word communism as in the system of the Soviet Union. Fine.
The gate also reflects ColdWar era diplomacy, with materials donated by the government of Taipei, Taiwan. It frames Chinatown as both a historic district and a visible symbol of the Chinese diaspora.
"The current situation between the United States and China is only a temporary easing of tensions and a superficial reconciliation, but the long-term trend will still be an economic coldwar.”
Luo Ya and Ning Haizhong contributed to this report.
The term "foreign agent," which has ColdWar connotations of espionage, has been applied in Russia to organizations, journalists, and rights activists, and brings with it close government scrutiny.
All that seemed to hold the old post-war social-democratic consensus together was the ColdWar itself. Surely we should put aside our differences so long as our country faces an existential threat of Soviet communism.
The 1986 book was published during the ColdWar, when much remained classified. That led Mr. Crickmore to update his book in 2016. “Lockheed Blackbird: Beyond the Secret Missions” used material declassified over the previous 30 years.
Together, they account for 15 percent of the Pentagon’s contract spending, which, defying experts of the early 1990s, has ballooned since the end of the ColdWar.
May 22, 2025By Bob Ivry, Jeremy Portnoy, RealClearInvestigations
–Soviet ColdWar that was raging at the time—the leveraging of communist China as a counterbalance against rising Soviet power and influence in Asia and elsewhere.
Others had different agendas.
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"The [defense industrial base] has been consolidated from 51 prime vendors following the ColdWar down to just five major prime contractors developing our most critical weapon systems today," the Pentagon's acquisition transformation
The chief of defence said the first nuclear age was the ColdWar and the second was the age of disarmament efforts and counter-proliferation.
"But we are at the dawn of a third nuclear age which is altogether more complex.
The two-and-a-half MRC advocacy began to erode by the late 1990s with strong arguments that the Department of Defense budget was unsustainable in the face of requirements to re-capitalize ColdWar era systems.