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Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin meet for first time to dial back tensions

Cold War adversaries decide to return ambassadors after talks

Is the world headed for Cold War 2 this time between US and China?

Contours were first visible just before outbreak of pandemic in a bitter trade war that erupted between US and China and seemed to have taken a backseat as world struggles to control spread of virus

Gaming out cyber-attacks

A shoot-out is less likely if both parties know the other is capable of massive retaliation

Topsy-turvy world: Nations like India can't take sides in US-China cold war

The world has changed beyond recognition since the time when think-tanks parroted theories about the 'domino effect', writes Pankaj Mishra.

Joe Biden's top foreign policy challenge is to avoid a cold war with China

Taiwan and the South China Sea are the likeliest points of conflict - but conflict is not an option

Covid far from over, but winter cannot stop arrival of spring: Xi Jinping

Signaling no change in China's course, president warns against Cold War

British govt announces largest military investment since Cold War

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the extra spending reflected the need to upgrade military capabilities, with plans for a new space command and artificial intelligence agency

The spy who loved humanity

A new biography of Klaus Fuchs, the celebrated physicist who passed nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union, forces readers to rethink their idea of what constitutes treason

New multilateralism with old paradigms?

The biggest armies and the biggest economies failed against a microscopic virus - the weakest link undid decades of progress

Shekhar Gupta: India, we have a problem

Brand India - and Brand Modi - has been damaged by a combination of identity politics and economic decline. But the world isn't writing India off, not yet

Le Carre's moral compass

The perfect metaphor for the moral ambiguities that Le Carre explores is caught in Smiley's relationship with his wife, Lady Anne

Best of BS Opinion: Reviving economic growth, containing China, and more

Judicial intervention, though effective, is one step away from being an arrangement in which the people have a say.

The soft power myth

Soft power is supposed to be about the ability to project values.

Be worried. Be very worried.

The new era of 21st century missile design could lead to developments even scarier than the Cold War

Explained: What is Demilitarised Zone - the world's last Cold War frontier?

With the DMZ a 'no man's land' and minimal human presence for more than half a century, much of the zone itself is lush forest

We're approaching a new cold war, and it's more dangerous than previous one

Recent steps by leaders in Washington, Moscow, and Beijing may seem to lend credence to such a "new Cold War" narrative, but in this case, history is no guide