Cold War

Far too often, pundits and politicians alike make the case that America should avoid another cold war, this time with China.  There is a problem with this argument. America doesn’t get to choose whether or not to start another cold war.  Just as it was not Am…

Video of a Russian destroyer coming within about 20 yards of a U.S. warship last Friday showed more than just a close encounter between great powers in the Philippine Sea. Close observers of the video quickly spotted what appeared to be Russian sailors sunbat…

BERKELEY (Project Syndicate) In a recent issue of The New York Review of Books, the historian Adam Tooze notes that, across the American political spectrum, if there is agreement on anything, it is on the need for a firmer line against China. Hes right: On …

Links 6/9/19

If a cold war is breaking out, why now? Although the United States and Soviet Union had different political and economic systems, their antagonism centered on a specific dispute: the future of postwar Germany. No single sticking point cleaves America and Chin…

U.S. and China Are Both to Blame for a Tech Cold War

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday it was important to prevent the United States and China, locked in a trade dispute, from sliding into a new Cold War. Guterres was speaking on a panel alongside Russian Preside…

Joyent, a cloud company that was acquired by Samsung three years ago, announced Thursday that it's discontinuing its public cloud offering, which competed with the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google Cloud. Like the leading AWS, Joyent allow…

JAPAN HAD long since lost its lead in electronics. Or so many thought. When an earthquake and tsunami hit the country in 2011, its continued centrality to the industry quickly became apparent. Copper foils for printed circuit boards, silicon wafers to make ch…

HAVANA (Reuters) - Lazaro Hernandez, who has made a good living showing U.S. cruise ship passengers around Havana in his pink 1950s Chevrolet, says the new U.S. ban on cruises to Cuba will wipe out 90% of his business overnight. Hernandez is one of thousand…