Cold War

Is This a New Cold War? U.S.-China Visa Restrictions Escalate Tensions

Vodafone Italy discovered backdoors in its Huawei home internet routers and software between 2009 and 2011 according to a new report from Bloomberg News. The backdoors have reportedly been fixed, but the revelations are still bad news for Huawei as the Chines…

The conflict between the United States and China over trade and technology is an increasingly high-stakes zero-sum affair. And it is not just about amassing data and talent to achieve economic and geostrategic primacy; like the original Cold War, it is also a…

Global military expenditure reached its highest level last year since the end of the Cold War, mainly fueled by increased spending in the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies, a leading defence think-tank has said.  In its annual report…

(Adds graphic) STOCKHOLM, April 29 (Reuters) - Global military expenditure reached its highest level last year since the end of the Cold War, fueled by increased spending in the United States and China, the world's two biggest economies, a leading defence th…

Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar died Sunday at 87. Lugar was known for his lasting non-proliferation work after the Cold War. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Richard Lugar, the former Indiana senator whose work in pursuit of nuclear non-proliferation helped ce…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption President Barack Obama presnted Lugar with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013 Republican Richard Lugar, Indiana's longest-serving senator, has died at 87. His non-profit organisation, the Lugar Center, says …

There’s a major new Arma 3 expansion launching on Monday, April 29th, bringing the military sim back to its cold war roots. Impressively large as it looks, Global Mobilization isn’t by Bohemia Interactive, but the first release in their new “Creator DLC” prog…

When the Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev came to Paris to tour with the Kirov ballet company in 1961, he was “like a wild animal out of a cage,” says Oleg Ivenko, the 26-year-old Ukrainian dancer and actor who plays Nureyev in the new movie The White Cro…

Task and Purpose Security, Europe Meet the YAK-141. Russian DNA: How the F-35 Was Partly Inspired By This Old Russian Fighter The Yak-141 Freestyle may not technically count as a predecessor to the F-35, but the JSF does seem to have at least some Russian…