Germany's new China strategy 'guided by ideology', ambassador says (Corrects family name on second reference to Wu, not Ken) Reuters · Jan 8, 2023
Ana Montes: ‘One of most damaging’ Cold War spies released after 20 years in US prison Analyst compromised ‘virtually everything’ US intelligence knew about Cuba The Independent UK · Jan 8, 2023
PlayStation Store Sale: Call of Duty, FIFA 23, Elden Ring and more discounted More than a thousand titles from big franchises including Call of Duty, Elden Ring and FIFA have received major discounts in the UK PlayStation Store January sale. Daily Mirror · Jan 5, 2023
China Promotes its US Envoy Qin Gang to Foreign Minister China has appointed Qin Gang, its ambassador to the United States and a trusted aide of President Xi Jinping, as its new foreign minister, as Beijing and Washington seek to stabilize rocky relations. Qin, 56, replaces Wang Yi, who has been foreign minister for the past decade. Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 30, 2022
The Ferguson Report: Australia won’t start next cold war until the subs arrive The final Ferguson Report of 2022 predicts the fake news headlines of 2023 ... GOVERNMENT FINALLY ADMITS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE GOVERNMENT The Albanese The New Daily · Dec 30, 2022
Clara Ferreira Marques: Mind the gap between the West and the rest When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress just days before Christmas — his first trip abroad since Russia’s invasion 10 months ago — he described a triumph against the Kremlin in the “battle for the minds of the world.” Tribune News Service · Dec 30, 2022
Five revelations from Tony Blair files as Millennium Dome could've moved to Swindon Newly-released files from the National Archives also show Tony Blair pushed for Vladimir Putin's seat at the world's 'top table' - and his officials blasted Nelson Mandela's 'misunderstanding of international law' Daily Mirror · Dec 30, 2022
Tony Blair wanted Vladimir Putin to be at international ‘top table’ Newly released files show officials warned that despite ‘warm rhetoric’ the Russian leader maintained Cold War levels of spying against UK. The Independent UK · Dec 30, 2022
5 Ways the U.S.-China Cold War Will Be Different From the Last One Guardrails and statesmanship will be even more important this time around. Foreign Policy · Dec 29, 2022
From Queen Elizabeth to Coolio, the celebrities and public figures who left us in 2022 From Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II to France’s iconic fashion designer Thierry Mugler and the Soviet Union’s last leader Mikhail Gorbachev, many notable public figures left us in 2022. FRANCE 24 takes a look back at the lives and legacies behind some of the year’s most high-profile deaths. France 24 · Dec 29, 2022
The 11 biggest planning decisions for Bristol in 2022 Many schemes have been controversial Bristol Post · Dec 27, 2022
NATO and the War in Ukraine The end of the cold war in 1991 brought along questions as regards NATO’s future. It has been more than 30 years and NATO’s ability to adopt itself to “the most complex security environment since the end of the Cold War” has preserved it as the strongest military alliance able… Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 26, 2022
Kissinger Calls for a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine, Kyiv Dismisses His Proposal Veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger said the time is approaching for a negotiated peace in Ukraine to reduce the risk of another devastating world war, but the Kyiv government dismissed his comments as amounting to "appeasing the aggressor" and said there could be no deal involving ceding territory. Kissinger, 99,… Asharq Al-Awsat · Dec 18, 2022
How Cold War secrecy helped fuel the latest fusion energy breakthrough The NIF is a relic of Cold War nuclear tests and paranoia. Inverse · Dec 17, 2022
Foreign Affairs · Dec 15, 2022 Germany’s Unlearned Lessons Berlin must reduce its dependence not just on Russia but on China, too.
ABC News · Dec 13, 2022 Nicolas Rothwell wins the Prime Minister's Literary Award for his novel Red Heaven Nicolas Rothwell has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for fiction, beating out strong contenders in Hannah Kent and Tony Birch.
Fortune · Dec 12, 2022 Japan and the Netherlands just picked sides in the U.S.-China cold war over chips. Here’s what they chose The two American allies are signing on to the U.S. offensive against China’s flagging chip industry.
The Independent UK · Dec 9, 2022 Griner case latest in string of high-profile prisoner swaps Delicate negotiations between the United States and Russia led to basketball star Brittney Griner’s return in exchange for notorious arms dealer once nicknamed “the Merchant of Death.”
The Conversation · Dec 9, 2022 The CIA and the new cold war: what history tells us about its influence today – podcast This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast tells the inside story of the CIA v Russia – from cold war conspiracy to “black” propaganda in Ukraine.
The Philadelphia Inquirer · Dec 9, 2022 After nearly 66 years and thanks to DNA advances, Philly's 'Boy in the Box' has a name: Joseph PHILADELPHIA — Haunting images of the child victim appeared in liquor stores, and were slipped into Philadelphia Gas Works bills. They spoke to a front-page crime so odious that it elbowed aside news accounts of the Cold War and the intensifying international tensions.
Daily Mirror · Dec 8, 2022 'ITV's A Spy Among Friends so good it should be savoured and not binged' The small screen spectacle of Damian Lewis, Guy Pearce and Anna Maxwell Martin in ITV's A Spy Among Friends should be savoured and not devoured, says Ian Hyland
The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2022 Extreme times: polarised politics and what we can learn from the past Compelling new ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the real-life private and public fallout that ensues when MI6 agent Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) discovers his decades-long colleague and friend Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) is a communist double-agent, radicalised at university and recruited by the KGB to spill top-level secrets.…
The Independent UK · Dec 8, 2022 From dead drops to laser-spying: tradecraft through the decades New ITVX drama A Spy Among Friends explores the incredible story of two real-life MI6 spies – Nicholas Elliott (Damian Lewis) and Kim Philby (Guy Pearce) – whose decades-long friendship fell apart when Philby was revealed to be a treacherous double agent, spilling secrets to the KGB. Here historian Guy…
The Conversation · Dec 5, 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev wanted to save communism, but he buried it instead The death of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, under whose leadership the communist bloc was brought to an end, was met in the west with tributes and personal reminiscences by leaders who had met him and enjoyed his company. This reverence wasn’t matched in Russia or…
The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022 Germany’s Scholz warns against new Cold War as Russia says 9 killed in Luhansk shelling German Chancellor calls for the world to unify