Cold War

Police officers march past the US Consulate General in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China July 25, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter The Chengdu mission was ordered shut in retaliation for the forced closure of Beijing's consulate in Houston, Texas, with both sides alleging the other had endangered national security. Reuters Last Updated: July…

Apple TV+ shared the first teaser for Season 2 of “For All Mankind” following the show’s Comic-Con@Home panel on Saturday. The teaser gives a brief glimpse at what’s to come from “Battlestar Galactica” creator Ronald D. Moore’s alternate-history drama as the series moves into the 1980s and the tension between…

Joe Skipper/Associated PressThere is a sect of fans who don't believe playoff basketball is all that different from the regular-season sort. Those fans would be wrong, according to Chris Bosh.In his latest post on his The Last Chip website, Bosh wrote that Game 1 of a playoff series is like…

Donald H. Shannon, whose 38-year career as a Washington and foreign correspondent for The Times included John F. Kennedy’s 1960 presidential campaign and the end of the Cold War in 1989, died July 17 of COVID-19. He was 97.Shannon was one of the last surviving links to an earlier era…

Last Updated: 20th July, 2020 11:36 IST In the latest attack against the United States Administration, the Chinese Mouthpiece Global Times Editor Hu Xijin balmed the US' top leadership for inciting In the latest attack against the United States Administration, Chinese Mouthpiece Global Times Editor Hu Xijin balmed the US' top…

Updated 2 months ago · Published on 20 Jul 2020 7:50AM · A man walks by a mural of US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping kissing while wearing surgical mask, at Mauerpark, in Berlin, Germany, on April 29, 2020. Experts say the two leaders are entering dangerous…

Extra-large autonomous submarines may revolutionize intelligence gathering and espionage under the sea. One of these ground breaking projects is the U.S. Navy's Boeing Orca extra-large uncrewed underwater vehicle (XLUUV). It is much larger than any other underwater drone currently in the water. But there is a historical precursor that, despite…

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Unwanted for public spaces elsewhere in Taiwan, some 200 statues of the late autocratic leader Chiang Kai-shek stand in the quiet sanctuary of a park surrounding his mausoleum in the north of the island. A visitor reads a note at an exhibition about Chiang Kai-shek in…

TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Unwanted for public spaces elsewhere in Taiwan, some 200 statues of the late autocratic leader Chiang Kai-shek stand in the quiet sanctuary of a park surrounding his mausoleum in the north of the island. Visitors take photos of a statue of Chiang Kai-shek in Taoyuan, Taiwan,…

Click here to read the full article.Amid growing tensions with China, President Donald Trump announced he is planning to invite Australia, South Korea, India, and Russia to the Group of Seven, often referred to as simply the G7. Having been founded during the economic turmoil of the early 1970s, the…