... the infamous Japanese “Unit 731”, which operated in a Harbin suburb and was responsible for the cruelest murdering of thousands of civilians, about 30% of whom were local Russians residing in the city during WW2.
However, at the end of the day, the ... ... suggests that the Japanese society is now ready to reconsider some of the country’s basic post-WW2 foreign policy principles.
The Cold War—Asian Style
The Cold War in Asia was arguably fiercer and more ruthless than in Europe. Yes, in Europe the Soviet Union ...
... features of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, like all wars it has caused enormous suffering on both sides, with hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians killed and wounded, cities and houses reduced to rubble, the accumulation of hundreds ... ... compromise.
Zhao Huaheng:
A Dangerous Gamble: The Russia-American Nuclear Game in the Ukraine Crisis
Why did the end of the cold war lead to even greater regression in the international community?
Andrey Kortunov:
It would be wrong to argue that the ...
... 907 of March 24, 2020, denounced the PRC for censoring reports about the virus during the early stages of its spread, its refusal to cooperate with scientists from the Centre for Disease Control to assist its response to
COVID-19
for over a month after ... ... the appearance of the first specialised concept for the conduct of hostilities, entitled AirSea Battle by analogy with the old Cold War anti-Soviet concept of AirLand Battle. Air Force Chief of Staff General Norton Schwartz and Chief of Naval Operations ...
Is nuclear war possible today? What needs to be done today to prevent nuclear war in the future?
Is nuclear war possible today? What needs to be done today to prevent nuclear war in the future? Will the recent election have an impact on US arms control policy? Director, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Corresponding Member, RAS; Professor, RAS (Russia); Member of the International Advisory Council of the...
... destructively and dangerously so. As each side sinks into deeper and wider alarm over the threat the other is believed to pose, something larger is being missed. The ignored price they and the rest of the world will eventually pay for their escalating Cold War is immense. At the top of the list, unnoticed, a nuclear world is slowly slipping out of control. No longer two, but five countries—China, India, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States—now hold the key to nuclear war or peace. Each is bent ...
... so-called “hybrid relations” model.
Hybrid vehicles use two or more sources of energy, usually a conventional internal combustion engine (ICE) and an electric battery. In our case, the old model of geopolitical confrontation between East and West (the Cold War model) plays the role of an ICE. This model is expensive and outdated, but did provide sufficient stability and predictability, both in Europe and around the world.
It offered numerous channels for political cooperation, military contacts, risk ...
... economic, social, and ethnic crises of the internal transition period, the desired effect of this foreign policy was not demonstrated until the 2000's.
The US, on the other hand, assumed that the void in the sphere of geopolitics that emerged after the Cold War could only be filled in by itself, with all political, economic, and military factors in its favour. This situation, which mobilized the strategic interests of the US on the world stage, has been formulated very clearly by the famous American ...
... Europe and the Middle East, dates back its great strategic importance to The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem’s settlement there in 16th century, which was a military religious elite of the Christian Europe defending its gates ... ... President George Bush Sr., where the leaders provided very important statements.“Many things that were characteristic of the cold war should now be abandoned. The threat of force, mistrust, psychological and ideological struggle… All these should be ...
The threat of nuclear war between Russia and the West, long relegated to Cold War history, reappeared last year as the crisis in East-West relations escalated.
Russian strategic bombers now fly long-range patrols near the coast of the US and its NATO allies, while Russian missile tests and military exercises involving simulated ...
... developed through decades of dealing with the new Russia and with agreements and forums and various different ways that the relationship can be managed. So, in many ways the relationship is very troubling but in other ways it’s not on the scale of the Cold War.
Do you see any ways to restore the mutual trust?
Tom Graham:
Russia — USA. It’s not just Ukraine
(In Russian)
In Washington, on the one hand, people are calling for stronger measures in the relationship with Russia, and on the other hand, people don’t want to have to confront the situation because of, as I ...