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Asia-Pacific Not an Arena for ‘Big-Power Rivalry,’ Xi Tells APEC

Chinese president calls for deeper Asian cooperation on economies and security at Bangkok regional summit

Caixin Global

China's Xi says Asia-Pacific should not become an arena for big power contest - state media

Chinese President Xi Jinping said Asia-Pacific is no one's backyard and should not become an arena for big power contest and no attempt to wage a new cold war will ever be allowed by the people or by our times, state media reported on Thursday.

Reuters

Even a limited nuclear war could devastate the world's oceans: here's what our modelling shows

The US and Russia have recently agreed to hold talks on the New START Treaty, the only accord left regulating the two largest nuclear arsenals in the world. While this is undoubtedly good news, we must not allow it to lull us into complacency. Global events this year, most notably…

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G20 chair Indonesia: world cannot move forward if war does not end

G20 chair Indonesian President Joko Widodo called on Tuesday for unity at the bloc's 2022 summit and said that the group must not allow the world to fall into another cold war and that conflict must end.

Reuters

Preventing use of the notwithstanding clause is a bad idea — and unnecessary

During the Cold War era, American military strategists thought the Soviet Union would be deterred from dropping a nuclear bomb on North America only if the United States also built up sufficient nuclear weapons capable of annihilating the Soviets.

The Conversation

The G20 may be a talk fest, but it's a talk fest we need at a time of growing division

Last Friday, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese jetted off for a marathon of international summits, the most significant of which will be the G20, held in Bali.

The Conversation

The G20 may be a talk fest, but dialogue is needed as crises and divisions grow

Prime Minister Anthony has Albanese jetted off for a marathon of international summits, the most significant of which will be the G20.

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I visited nuclear shelters in Prague to see how cities could prepare for nuclear war

With the ongoing Ukraine war, tensions in Europe are on the rise. This is both due to an influx of war related-refugees to Central European cities, and discontent over the related rising cost of energy.

The Conversation

Biden and Xi, in first presidential sit-down, vow to ‘manage’ tense relationship

NUSA DUA, Indonesia — President Joe Biden on Monday expressed confidence that a “new Cold War” can be avoided with China and that Beijing is not planning an “imminent” invasion of U.S. ally Taiwan.

Los Angeles Times

British nuclear tests heroes applauded at Cenotaph after 70-year silence on suffering

Veteran Terry Quinlan, 83, marched past the Cenotaph and saluted despite experiening chest pains, with fellow survirors of Britain's nuclear tests wearing the Missing Medal to signify the award they have been refused

Daily Mirror

The remarkable Greater Manchester man who helped stop a nuclear stand-off with Russia

His linguistic skills played a key role in the special relationship between Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail Gorbachev

Manchester Evening News

Here's what's at stake in Monday's meeting between Biden and China's Xi Jinping

The meeting at the G20 in Indonesia will be their first in person since President Biden took office. Whether they can find common ground is a key question, and reflects the current state of relations.

WEKU

Tory failures to recognise Cold War heroes in medical cover up an 'insult'

PM Rishi Sunak has been accused of an Armistice Day snub after failing to recognise the Cold War heroes whose medical records were hidden by the Ministry of Defence in a 70-year cover-up

Daily Mirror

Berlin embassy spy case reminiscent of John Le Carre thriller

Hopes of a warmer co-existence with Russia have been gradually snuffed out since the Cold War ended.

The Independent UK

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The first global summit of the second cold war

Joe Biden and Xi Jinping may meet at the G20 in Indonesia, whose president embodies an older non-aligned tradition

The Independent UK

Cold War nuclear bunker in original condition on sale for £25,000

The bunker was built in 1959

Daily Mirror

Cold War-era nuclear bunker with body bags and gas masks in UK countryside on sale £25k

The nuclear retreat, fitted with body bags, gas masks and a red telephone box, was used by Ministry of Defence in Legbourne, Lincolnshire

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The Independent UK

Liz Cheney schools Marjorie Taylor Greene on Russia: ‘You stand with Putin against freedom and America’

‘Under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine,’ Greene said at rally alongside Trump

Asharq Al-Awsat

Medvedev: Russia is Fighting a Sacred Battle, Victory is Ours

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday cast Russia's war in Ukraine as a sacred conflict with Satan, warning that Moscow could send all its enemies to the eternal fires of hell. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has killed tens of thousands and triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since…

Reuters

Pope, in Bahrain, condemns rearmament pushing world to 'the brink'

Pope Francis on Friday appealed to religious leaders to help bring the world back from "the brink of a delicate precipice" and oppose a new race to rearm that he said was redesigning Cold War-era spheres of influence.

Tribune News Service

Renovated and reopened National Cryptologic Museum a spymaster’s delight; newly declassified artifacts on display

BALTIMORE — The newly renovated and reopened National Cryptologic Museum, run by the National Security Agency and located near the spy agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, deals a fatal blow to one of the most enduring myths of the Cold War: There is no “red phone” linking the Oval Office…

Bangkok Post

The West needs an energy alliance

The old line that "history does not repeat itself, but often rhymes", is an apt description of the evolving relationship between the West and its rivals. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was a global superpower, owing to its military prowess. Today, Russia's armed forces appear to be in…

France 24

Cuba embargo: Why does the US continue to reject UN moves to end it?

Now 60 years old, the trade embargo on Cuba has been perpetuated primarily at the behest of Washington. When it was imposed in 1962, John F. Kennedy was US president and Fidel Castro was the revolutionary leader of Cuba: a Communist too close for comfort for Washington at the height…

The Guardian - UK

Harold Wilson drama is first feature film to be shot in Commons chamber

It’s a Sin actor Shaun Dooley plays former PM in cold war thriller The Ghost of Harold Wilson

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