The Cold War was generally regarded as a product of the US-Soviet period until the disintegration of the Soviet Republic in 1991 and ended. During this half-century of political confrontation, the battle between military and science and technology has led to the rapid development of human civilization, but it has also brought the fear of nuclear haze to mankind.
It is estimated that during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the total number of nuclear weapons in the world reached more than 70,000 at its peak, enough to destroy the world more than a dozen times! Later, with the end of the Cold War, the world's nuclear arsenals began to be destroyed to about 30,000, and most parts of the world entered a period of peace.
Until February 7, 2010, Russia’s neighbor Ukraine elected Yanukovych as president. In 2013, the president adopted a pro-Russian foreign policy and stopped his efforts to join the European Union. Instead, he sought to join the Eurasian Union. Th
The Cold War was generally regarded as a product of the US-Soviet period until the disintegration of the Soviet Republic in 1991 and ended. During this half-century of political confrontation, the battle between military and science and technology has led to the rapid development of human civilization, but it has also brought the fear of nuclear haze to mankind.
It is estimated that during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, the total number of nuclear weapons in the world reached more than 70,000 at its peak, enough to destroy the world more than a dozen times! Later, with the end of the Cold War, the world's nuclear arsenals began to be destroyed to about 30,000, and most parts of the world entered a period of peace.
Until February 7, 2010, Russia’s neighbor Ukraine elected Yanukovych as president. In 2013, the president adopted a pro-Russian foreign policy and stopped his efforts to join the European Union. Instead, he sought to join the Eurasian Union. This led to some Ukrainians choosing to demonstrate. As a result, Yanukovych went down to the opposition in February 2014 and went into exile in Russia. .
Later, the new Ukrainian government adopted excessive measures to eliminate all the influence of Russia, and it caused the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkov, Dnipro, and Crimea states in eastern Ukraine to stage demonstrations.
Among them, Crimea declared its independence and joined Russia. Donetsk and Luhansk also established independent governments and fought Ukrainian government forces with the support of Russia.
This has prompted Ukraine to move closer to the West, while the relations between the United States and Russia and Europe and Russia have completely deteriorated. "Foreign Policy" magazine believes that the Crimean crisis will be an important sign of the beginning of the Second Cold War, and it also laid the groundwork for the European War of the Third World War.
In 2016, as Trump was elected as the 45th President of the United States, he discovered a quietly rising China and regarded it as the United States' current biggest competitor! So he adopted a tough policy against China and launched a Sino-US trade war in 2018, which made the pace of the new Cold War faster and the international environment began to change drastically.
At the end of 2019, the most extensive new coronavirus in history broke out in Wuhan, China. At the beginning of 2020, the epidemic quickly spread to more than 200 countries and regions around the world, and many countries adopted the method of closing cities, which almost halted economic activities.
On January 30, 2020, the European Union formally approved Brexit, which will become the beginning of a change in the situation in the European Union.
In order to suppress its opponents, the United States believed that Wuhan, China, was the initial stage of the large-scale outbreak of the virus, so it concluded that it was the source, and accused China of concealing the epidemic at the beginning, and was responsible, and even filed a claim against China!
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Chinese diplomats denied that China was the source of the epidemic and suspected that the “e-cigarette pneumonia” that occurred in the United States was the source of the virus earlier than Wuhan.
"Fort Detrick Base" is where the virus is created. The two sides fell into a war of words, and Sino-US relations worsened.
On July 21, 2020, the United States requested China to close the Chinese Consulate in Houston before 16:00 on July 24. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin strongly condemned and said he would respond. On July 24, China announced the withdrawal of the establishment and operation of the US Consulate General in Chengdu. The two world superpowers entered a diplomatic crisis.
On July 23, 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo delivered a speech "Communist China and the Future of the Free World" at the former President Nixon’s Memorial Library, accusing China of causing the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic and imposing tyranny to threaten the United States and other countries in the world. Economy, freedom, national security, and democracy, call for changes in the CCP’s threat to the free world, and call on the Chinese people to change the CCP.
He has attempted to publicize the threat theory to achieve the goal of squeezing China. This time Pompeo's speech was regarded by the Allied BBC as a new iron curtain speech that opened the second Cold War.
On January 6, 2021, a large number of demonstrators stormed into the U.S. Capitol under Trump's call, occupying and destroying them for several hours. A series of conflicts resulted in 5 deaths and more than 140 injuries.
This day is a heavy day for most Americans. George, a US citizen, recalled his feelings: "I am very shocked. I can't believe that such a thing would happen. I feel that the country (the United States) is being divided."
On January 20, 2021, Biden defeated Trump in the election and was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. The world seemed to see a glimmer of light in the gloom of the Cold War, but he did not expect him to implement a more serious confrontation!
On May 4, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Brinken defended it in an interview with the Financial Times when the outside world generally believed that the United States was provoking the second Cold War.
He said that the United States is not trying to contain China, but the Chinese government is becoming more and more repressive internally and aggressively externally. The United States and its allies must defend the rules-based international order and deny that China and the United States are engaged in a "new cold war."
But in Europe, nearly half of the people believe that the so-called international order in the United States is only the "America first" order of the US government. Europe and the United States are not treated equally. This view is particularly evident in Germany and France.
On August 15, the Taliban occupied Kabul and rebuilt the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. The large number of refugees caught the United States and many European countries by surprise, and caused tragedies in the retreat, which made the United States lose face.
The former President Trump criticized Biden even more for this, causing Biden's approval rate to decline rapidly. In the United States, the dispute between the two parties has become more intense, and the struggle in the government is like water and fire.
In the process of evacuation of refugees, the United States decided to end the evacuation on the 31st, which made it difficult for European allies to accept. They believed that the United States was leaving its burden and the United States was abandoning them. In fact, the actions of the two presidents of the United States have also certified that European countries have lost trust in the United States.
During the administration of US President Trump, he decided to withdraw from the "Iran Nuclear Agreement", which was unanimously opposed by the three major European countries, and even France, Germany, and the United Kingdom opened up non-dollar trade with Iran to avoid US sanctions facing Iran.
In addition, Trump’s unilateralism has continued to require NATO’s EU member states to increase their share of NATO expenditures in order to achieve their own national interests. French President Macron and German Chancellor Merkel believed that the United States was deceiving Europe, so they supported the establishment of an independent European army to guard against the forces of the United States and Russia. The United States and Europe fell into a special period.
Later, during Biden's term of office, he supported the "Taiwan Government" in the disputed sovereignty area and dispatched aircraft carrier formations to cruise the Taiwan Strait under the pretext of "freedom of navigation", creating tensions! This has greatly touched China's bottom line. China has sent a large number of warships and submarines, and China's fifth-generation fighter jet J-20 to defend its sovereignty warning against Taiwan.
The situation in Taiwan has focused the world's attention on this, and they worry that this will be the fuse of the Third World War! According to the cover article published on the website of the British "The Economist" magazine, Taiwan is currently the most dangerous place on earth!