DefenceTalkChina’s premier said on Wednesday major powers must oppose a new Cold War, a thinly veiled reference to Washington as top Asian and US officials gathered for talks in Indonesia. Beijing has expressed concern about US-backed blocs forming on its doorstep, while facing disputes with other powers in the region over the South China Sea […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-warns-against-new-cold-war-as-big-powers-meet-in-se-asia-80077/

DefenceTalkRussia has a stake in crises around the world from Ukraine to Syria, Sudan and Mali — and that is reflected in the active role it takes at the UN Security Council on issues both big and small, contrasting with the relative detachment of the United States. The paradox is that, by at least one […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-takes-lead-at-un-in-crises-around-the-world-77824/

DefenceTalkGeneva, the neutral turf that was once host to so much Cold War bargaining, is again welcoming Russian and US officials to discuss missiles, nuclear arms and spheres of influence on the eve of a possible conflagration. There is a heavy whiff of the 20th-century East-West power struggles in the Swiss capital, a flashback to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/cold-war-flashbacks-in-russia-us-talks-in-geneva-77727/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkEurope and the United States need to face up to a “new Cold War with China” together, regardless of who wins the White House in November, Germany’s point man on transatlantic ties told AFP. With just five weeks to go until the US election, the German government’s coordinator for relations with the United States and […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-cold-war-with-china-demands-us-europe-united-front-germany-76408/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkChina on Friday ordered the closure of the US consulate in the southwestern city of Chengdu in retaliation for America shuttering Beijing’s diplomatic mission in Houston this week. The move was a “legitimate and necessary response to the unreasonable measures by the United States”, the foreign ministry said in a statement. “The current situation in […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-orders-closure-of-us-consulate-in-chengdu-76005/

DefenceTalkChina said Sunday that its relations with the United States were “on the brink of a new Cold War,” fuelled partly by tensions over the coronavirus pandemic that has killed nearly 350,000 people worldwide and pitched the global economy into a massive downturn. Fresh tensions between Beijing and Washington emerged as virus restrictions continued to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-says-virus-pushing-us-ties-to-brink-of-cold-war-75635/

DefenceTalkWorldwide arms trade has risen to its highest level since the Cold War in the last five years, driven by a demand from the Middle East and Asia, a study said Monday. Between 2012-2016, arms imports in terms of volume by countries in Asia and Oceania accounted for 43 percent of global imports, a 7.7 […]https://www.defencetalk.com/global-arms-trade-highest-since-cold-war-study-69184/

DefenceTalkOn October 30, 1962 President John F. Kennedy received a secret CIA briefing on the first results of his diplomatic dance with Nikita Khrushchev to end the Cuban missile crisis. Now, thanks to a major release of previously classified CIA documents, Cold War historians can read along with him the daily memos he and his […]https://www.defencetalk.com/inside-cold-war-oval-office-cia-releases-intel-briefs-65453/

DefenceTalkThe US military command that scans North America’s skies for enemy missiles and aircraft plans to move its communications gear to a Cold War-era mountain bunker, officers said. The shift to the Cheyenne Mountain base in Colorado is designed to safeguard the command’s sensitive sensors and servers from a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack, military […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-aerospace-command-moving-comms-gear-back-to-cold-war-bunker-63748/

DefenceTalkChina hit back at the US Thursday over a document that called Beijing’s growing military a threat to Washington’s armed dominance in Asia, accusing its authors of a “Cold War mentality”. China’s military spending is soaring and the modernisation of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) “is altering the security balance in the Asia-Pacific, challenging decades […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-blasts-us-panel-for-cold-war-thinking-49701/