On this episode of American Prestige, Jeremy Friedman on the relationship between China and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Here's where to find podcasts from The Nation. Political talk without ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Born in a Japanese fishing village just after his refugee family landed there in a desperate 1919 escape from Russia’s Bolshevik revolution, Roy Essoyan arrived in the Soviet Union ...

One year before the 6·25 War, the East Asian international political environment was engulfed in turmoil. On August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union successfully conducted a nuclear test. This marked the ...

David A. Merkel, managing director of Summit International Advisors, LLC, spoke about the Sino-Soviet split during the Cold War, the two sides’ conflicting interests, and what that means for great ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: China’s manpower advantage didn’t mean that the PLA could sustain an offensive into the USSR. The Chinese lacked the logistics and airpower necessary to seize ...

A lesson from 1956 continues to affect China’s understanding of political security — especially as the CCP’s own 20th Congress draws near. In the prolific number of analytical articles on China’s ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The most likely outcome of war would have been short Chinese success, followed by a sharp, destructive Soviet rebuke. Such an outcome would have served to drive ...

During the Cold War, Mongolia found itself positioned between two powerful neighbors: the Soviet Union and China. Though closely aligned with Moscow, it maintained formal independence rather than ...