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The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. This has been accompanied by significant investment in naval and air power, including the construction of an aircraft carrier, short range missile systems and fighter jets. All this has fed anxieties that Chinese efforts to develop a 7 Woodward p. 3 8 Woodward p. 31 Loyd Eskildson, ‘2027: […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the reports I read of the shooting down by the Iranians of the Ukrainian airliner referred to the occasion in 1988 when the USS Vincennes, a guided- missile cruiser of the United States Navy, shot down Iran Air Flight 655 killing, 290 people. Which led to the Lockerbie bombing . . . . Not […]

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[…] war did not scuttle détente, it nevertheless brought the United States closer to a nuclear confrontation with the Soviet Union than at any point since the Cuban missile crisis. The American military airlift to Israel, moreover, had led Arab oil producers to embargo oil shipments to the United States and some Western European countries, […]

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