Cold War

This week on the show: Two Russia experts on Moscow’s Ukraine gambit.

The U.S. president should ignore fearmongering and build on a real opportunity.

The United States needs to prepare for a major war, not because its rival is rising but because of the opposite.

New polling shows that Europeans think a struggle between Washington and Beijing is unavoidable—but want no part of it.

Beijing recognizes promoting human rights and democracy is an ideological challenge. So should Washington.

Look at what happened with the Soviet threat in the Cold War.

The British KGB double agent was a forerunner of today’s radicalized Western jihadis.

Washington shouldn’t assume its values are more attractive to others than Beijing’s.

Decades of failed efforts to woo China explain the Biden administration’s tough talk ahead of Alaska meeting.

Reagan’s top diplomat ended the Cold War and reshaped the world.

Liberal states have been on the defensive for too long.

What the Cold War policy means for our current moment.

Biden and Trump are debating who is the bigger China hawk. Instead, the next administration should learn from the Cold War to defuse the rivalry.

A new cold war is starting, and neither side seems interested in winning.

Applying 20th-century analogies to the U.S.-Chinese relationship is a misuse of history—and shows a misunderstanding of the present.

The clash between Washington and Beijing could be the start of a new ideological confrontation—or the inevitable fallout from a power transition.

The Chinese government could learn a thing or two about soft power from a long-gone and much-maligned socialist regime: East Germany.

Firms like Zoom show that “one company, two systems” doesn’t work.

The plan that worked to defeat the Soviet Union can work today against China—it’s just not what you think.

The fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago was a giddy moment, but the subsequent rush to tear down walls everywhere has yielded a global system in which bad actors are no longer held accountable.