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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.

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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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What to watch on ITVX, from A Spy Among Friends to Litvinenko to Riches

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Evening Standard

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

Financial Times

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

The bunker was built in 1959

The Independent UK

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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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

The Independent UK

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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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.

Reuters

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…

Tribune News Service

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…

Bangkok Post

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…

France 24

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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Russia Says US Lowers ‘Nuclear Threshold’ by Deploying New Nuclear Bombs in Europe

Russia said on Saturday that the accelerated deployment of modernized US B61 tactical nuclear weapons at NATO bases in Europe would lower the "nuclear threshold" and that Russia would take the move into account in its military planning. Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the gravest confrontation between Moscow and…

The Conversation

Should the West negotiate with Russia? The pros and cons of high-level talks

With progressive members of the US Congress recently calling for a resumption of direct talks between the West and Vladimir Putin’s Russia, it’s a good time to consider how such talks could look and what might be gained – or lost.

Salon

Stop worrying and love the bomb

The U.S. is slipping into war with Russia, with the goal of humiliating and defeating Putin. What could go wrong?

Reuters

Russian nuclear rhetoric rekindles German Cold War fears

Deep inside a decommissioned nuclear bunker built into a Cologne subway station at the height of the Cold War, tour guide Robert Schwienbacher says he is getting a number of inquiries from Germans asking for space available in an emergency.

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The Independent UK

Russia may again block Antarctic marine protections

Call it a cold war

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Liz Truss’ stormy reign has lessons for the US on how not to be an aging superpower

The rapid meltdown of former British Prime Minster Liz Truss, who resigned after only 44 days in office and is being succeeded by former Boris Johnson Treasury chief Rishi Sunak, should alarm Americans. She is the supply-side ghost of Christmas future, a long-distance warning from an ex-empire to an aging…

The Conversation

What's a cold war? A historian explains how rivals US and Soviet Union competed off the battlefield

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com.

The Independent UK

Russian threats revive old nuclear fears in central Europe

Fighting around Ukraine’s nuclear power installations and Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have reawakened nuclear fears in Europe

Daily Mirror

Cold War nuclear bunker on sale for £25k with gas masks included in case of Russia attack

The Royal Observer Corps monitoring post in Louth, Lincolnshire was bought on eBay on a whim nearly 20 years ago, and can only be accessed down a 14-foot shaft

The Guardian - UK

Propaganda: A New Musical review – love and betrayal at the birth of the cold war

Effervescent jazz and operatic lyricism tease out the characters in Conor Mitchell’s ambitious production which grows thrillingly in impact – and in contemporary resonance

Salon

They perfected the "art of polarization"

Historian Nicole Hemmer talks to Salon about how Rush, Newt, Buchanan and an obsession with Clinton remade the GOP

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