Category

Cold War

China’s Xi warns against return to Cold War tensions at APEC meeting Cold War

China’s Xi warns against return to Cold War tensions at APEC meeting

LONDON: A woman convicted of terrorist offenses for traveling to Syria to join Daesh has said she “regrets everything” about it. Tareena Shakil, 32, was jailed in 2016 upon returning to Britain from Syria after spending three months living in Daesh’s so-called caliphate. Shakil, from Birmingham, has now been released from…
bubmag
November 11, 2021
Top general: China’s hypersonic missile test “very close” to a “Sputnik moment” Cold War

Top general: China’s hypersonic missile test “very close” to a “Sputnik moment”

Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Wednesday that China's test of a hypersonic missile is "very concerning" and "very close" to the kind of "Sputnik moment" that triggered the Space Race during the Cold War. Why it matters: The comments by America's top uniformed…
bubmag
October 27, 2021
From Sino-lovers to Cold War foes in one short, great leap. What’s changed? Cold War

From Sino-lovers to Cold War foes in one short, great leap. What’s changed?

What is guiding Australia's foreign policy when we can go, in just a few short years, to welcoming China's embrace to pursuing a new Cold War? (Image: Private Media/Gorkie) In all the coverage of the AUKUS announcement and the government’s continuing criticisms of China, one question has received too little…
bubmag
October 1, 2021