Cold War

Key point: The Army wants to prioritize six new kinds of hardware. The U.S. Army is slowing, cutting and canceling hundreds of weapons programs in order to free up cash for just six kinds of new hardware. The "Big Six" are key to winning high-tech wars ag…

Creative agency Heimat Berlin used images of lettering graffitied onto the Berlin Wall to create this typeface commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the barrier separating East and West Berlin. The typeface forms part of a project titled If Walls…

This is the text of a speech delivered by Ian Bremmer on November 18 at the 2019 GZERO Summit in Tokyo. China has made its decision. Beijing is building a separate system of Chinese technology—its own standards, infrastructure, and supply chains—to compete w…

Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group, warned at the consulting firm's annual GZERO Summit in Tokyo Monday that a rising "tech Cold War" between China and the West poses "the greatest threat to globalization since the end of World War II." What…

Image copyrightGetty Images/Liberal PartyImage caption James Paterson, left, and Andrew Hastie, right, have both been outspoken in their criticism of the Chinese state. Two Australian politicians refused entry to China have said they will not retract their…

Key point: It would have reshaped Asia forever. Americans tend to remember the Cuban Missile Crisis as the most dangerous moment in Cold War brinksmanship. Despite some tense moments, Washington and Moscow resolved that crisis with only the death of U.S. Air…

The assassination of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador 30 years ago this month was the last great crime of the Cold War. It happened on November 16, 1989, a week after German protesters began demolishing the Berlin Wall. As communism was dissolving, an elit…

I took trains all the way from Istanbul to London, and eastern and western Europe felt like different worlds

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Image copyrightLUBOMIR KOTEK/Getty ImagesImage caption Days of non-violent protests culminated in the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia The Berlin Wall had only just fallen when 15,000 students gathered in Prague on 17 November 1989. It was a moment th…