cold war
冷战,冷战时期,冷战争,冷战期间
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- : intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries.
- : a continuing state of resentful antagonism between two parties short of open hostility or violence.
- : rivalry after World War II between the Soviet Union and its satellites and the democratic countries of the Western world, under the leadership of the United States.
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The cold war radio extremists hit their listeners with a hammer of information.
Reading list“Trump-McConnell clash threatens to settle into a cold war as GOP eyes midterms,” by Mike DeBonis and Josh DawseyAn acquitted president goes after his acquitter.
A “techonomic cold war” is already under way—an ongoing, often-invisible state of conflict at the intersection of technology and geopolitics.
If we set ourselves up for a new cold war and there’s no ability to monitor actual events in China, I think we could very well miss opportunities to have better outcomes in the long term.
That’s gotten us to a bad point where, as we’ve noted, the bipartisan fusion consensus now is that we’re in a great power competition, a cold war with China.
They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).
But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?
This is comedy based on a cold humor, detached, euphemistic, devoid of any generosity.
We indulge in expensive cold-pressed juices and SoulCycle classes, justifying these purchases as investments in our health.
Cold War fears could be manipulated through misleading art to attract readers to daunting material.
He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.