China on Thursday told the United States to drop its “Cold War” attitude and stop accusing Beijing of espionage, after US authorities arrested four people on charges of spying for the Chinese.
“The so-called accusation against China on the issue of espionage is totally groundless,” foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said when asked to comment on [...]

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Seventeen years later, some question exists as to whether or not the Cold war actually ended in 1991. And contrary to the notions of a new era of peace and stability, conflicts that were previously unified into the overarching guise of the Cold war have splintered. With the overwhelming international focus on the controversial war [...]

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No enemy is too small. In an eye-opening passage, Lucas chronicles how the Russian state has crushed aspirations towards a cultural renaissance among the tiny 600,000 Mari people in central Russia, apparently for getting too close to Estonia. He warns us in particular on the issue of gas, Russia’s main export to the rest of [...]

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So you thought the Cold war was over, did you? Welcome to Vladimir Putin’s new Russian Empire.
Using the wealth generated by soaring oil and gas prices, the Kremlin has intimidated its former satellites in Eastern Europe, while treating most of America’s North American Treaty Organization allies as if they too could be pushed around.
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Security official: ‘It’s like a return to the Cold War’
Syria, aided by Russia and Iran, in recent months has been furiously acquiring rockets and missiles, including projectiles capable of hitting the entire state of Israel, according to Jordanian and Israeli security officials speaking to WND.
A Jordanian security official said one of the main reasons Damascus [...]

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The big question about Russia these days is whether her domestic backsliding and international obstreperousness are transitional or terminal: Is this a bend in the road to democracy or journey’s end?
Edward Lucas, an Economist correspondent who specializes in Russia, gives a pessimistic answer in his book, “The New Cold War: How the Kremlin Menaces Both [...]

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The cleverly titled Wall Street Journal column, “Gazprom Drills Deeper Into Europe,” explains how the Russian energy giant (Gazprom) is invading Western retail energy markets. While Russian bombers and warships conduct war exercises in the Atlantic, the real 2008 Russian Winter Offensive is along economic lines. Not only has Russia protected itself financially, with bolstered [...]

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A Debate:
Yes, The Cold war is on the verge of repeating itself but with a slight difference. Where the last Cold war was primarily caused by an arms race, territorial fears and differences in ideology we now stand on the brink of a Cold war caused by an energy race…
No. A simple answer that hides [...]

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Though the U.S. plays down tensions, some observers say Russia sees advantages to being an enemy.
Growing friction between the United States and Russia over Iran is only part of an increasingly difficult relationship that many diplomats and experts consider to be in its worst shape since the end of the Cold War, and at risk [...]

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Many at home and abroad hoped that a few years of heavy-handed rule by sinister strongmen would be the price of freedom and security.
They were wrong. The costs of Putin’s KGB putsch have been colossal. Russia today is the epitome of bullying and crookedness.
The independent media have shrivelled, with television in particular coming almost completely [...]

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Norway’s military has felt it necessary to dispatch fighter jets 29 times so far this year, to monitor Russian military flights offshore. Now it’s emerged that at least one of the Russian aircraft was equipped with a cruise missile.
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Sputnik Documentary Provides Glimpses into Cold war Fears
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A 1958 Gallup Poll (pdf) Hoffman dug up found that “60% of Americans thought that nuclear war was imminent and that 50% of the American population would …
Secrets of 1957 Sputnik Launch Revealed ABC News
Sputnik 50 years later: Why was it first, what [...]

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Even as Russo-American tensions smoulder from Eastern Europe and Central Asia to the Arctic seabed, the US Secretary of State is denying the onset of a renewed Cold War. Yet, unmistakable signals of a counter-balancing effort by Russia and China were sent last month through the largest-ever war games of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation [...]

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Russia’s economy is flush with petro-dollars. Mr Putin’s visit to the world’s most populous Muslim nation forms part of a Kremlin drive to convert economic power into a new global political and military reach.
Russia has already sought to restore its influence in India, the Middle East and Africa, and is building ties in Latin America.
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For those who hold well-worn copies of Dr Strangelove in our video libraries, then Russia’s announcement this week that it plans long-range bomber exercises in the arctic will remind us of how once Alaska’s geography served the United States during the Cold War. Russian bombers will test this security line in their upcoming drills, and [...]

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Cold war II?
No matter what experts may say, Russia’s growing assertiveness is already causing jitters in the West. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), consisting of Russia, China and four Central Asian republics (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan), held its “Peace Mission 2007″ joint war exercises in August, starting in the Chinese western province of Xinjiang [...]

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August 27, 2007 — DESPITE consistent Kremlin claims that Moscow isn’t trying to resurrect the Cold War, a landslide of Soviet-style actions over the last few weeks is doing a pretty darn good job of indicating the exact opposite.
One of the frostiest events was President Vladimir Putin’s announcement a little over a week ago that [...]

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“On the outbreak of general nuclear war, it is expected that central government would cease to exist from the earliest stage, that a third of Britain’s population and the bulk of her industrial capacity would be destroyed, that communications with overseas posts would be interrupted initially, perhaps for several days, and when restored would be [...]

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Last week’s announcement regarding regular, long-range bomber missions is just the latest in a series of threatening stances by the Kremlin that take us back to the era of the 1980s. Remember Putin’s statement in February 2004 during military exercises, where he claimed that Russia had developed a “miracle missile” that could overcome any anti-missile [...]

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a thinly veiled and robust message to Western leaders that he is preparing Moscow for a return to the Cold war days.
In a series of provocative moves orchestrated by the Kremlin and approved by Mr Putin:
• Russian troops staged a massive show of force during unprecedented joint military operations [...]

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Canada fired a warning shot in a new Cold war over the vast resources of the far North by announcing last night that it will build two new military bases in the Arctic wilderness.
A week after Russia laid claim to the North Pole in what is rapidly becoming a global scramble for the region’s vast [...]

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