For the last ten years, the U.S. Navy has been fielding the world’s most advanced maritime patrol aircraft, a militarized version of the BoeingBA 737 jetliner that can fly farther and faster than the ...
Tag: Cold War
Hyping the China Threat Harms U.S. Security
No one who hasn’t been sleeping in a cave can have missed that U.S.-China relations are at a moment of dangerously high tensions. Just yesterday, Chinese President Xi Jin Ping stated that “Western cou...
Pentagon Warns China Has More Nuclear Missile Launchers Than U.S. But There’s One Big Catch
Maxar satellite imagery of a missile silo being constructed under inflatable domes at a training … [+] area in north-central China. Satellite image (c) 2021 Maxar Technologies. DigitalGlobe/Gett...
Putin’s Threats Bring Risk Of Nuclear ‘Armageddon’ To Highest Level Since Cold War, Biden Warns
Topline President Joe Biden on Thursday warned the world could face “Armageddon” if Russian leader Vladimir Putin makes good on threats to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, an unusually blunt statement ...
U.S. needs miracle to avoid recession, economist Stephen Roach warns
Negative economic growth in the year’s first half may be a foreshock to a much deeper downturn that could last into 2024. Stephen Roach, who served as chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, warns the ...
Martin Sixsmith’s Brilliant ‘The War of Nerves’
At some point in every calendar year I re-read Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane’s 1981 essay, “Fear and Loathing In the Soviet Union.” A recap of his visit to the communist country, it astounded for...
Investing In Knowledge Economy Will Help Make 21st Century Another ‘American Century’
Time publisher Henry Luce first used the term “The American Century” in a piece written in 1941 that urged the United States to forsake isolationism in favor of entering World II and defending global ...
Biden And Xi Talk, But Not About The Global Economic Slowdown
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with China’s President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the … [+] Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 15, 2021. MANDEL NGAN/...
How China And The U.S. Can Avoid A Financial Cold War
NEW YORK, NY – AUGUST 11: A leftover fallout shelter sign, one of hundreds in New York, is … [+] displayed on a building on August 11, 2017 in New York City. The signs signifying a protect...
Drunk Russian Soldiers, Germany’s Real Problem, Sabotage Inside Russia
Ukrainian Military In Eastern Ukraine Getty Images As with any saturated topic of news, one is always surprised that rather central issues about events in Ukraine continue to be overlooked. One should...
BlackRock CEO Larry Fink Says Russia-Ukraine War Is Upending World Order And Will End Globalization
Topline The war between Russia and Ukraine has heralded the end of globalization, as the conflict has upended the current world order that has been in place since the Cold War and will have lasting gl...