IPSEs IN THE LAST 24H
  • Janet Yellen
    Janet Yellen “U.S. and European support for Ukraine has been essential for Ukraine's resistance to Russia's invasion. And let me be clear: It is also critical for the security of the American and European people. If we stand by as dictators violate territorial integrity and flout the international rules-based order, they have no reason to stop at their initial targets. They will keep going. The U.S. and Europe must show that Russia cannot outlast their resolve to defend a rules-based order that took them decades to shape. This includes the need to crack down on Russian sanctions evasion and provide Ukraine the funding to equip its military, fund critical government services and ultimately rebuild once the conflict ends. That's why I believe it's vital and urgent that we collectively find a way forward to unlock the value of Russian sovereign assets immobilized in our jurisdictions for the benefit of Ukraine. This will be a key topic of conversation during G7 meetings this week.” 10 hours ago
  • Antony Blinken
    Antony Blinken “We reject the prosecutor's equivalence of Israel with Hamas. It is shameful.” 10 hours ago
  • Joe Biden
    Joe Biden “The ICC prosecutor's application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders is outrageous. And let me be clear: Whatever this prosecutor might imply, there is no equivalence - none - between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.” 10 hours ago
  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy
    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “Western allies are taking too long to make key decisions , opens new tabon military support for Ukraine. Every decision to which we, then later everyone together, comes to is late by around one year. Russians are using 300 planes on the territory of Ukraine. We need at least 120, 130 planes to resist in the sky. You can't provide that right now? OK ... returning to the planes that you have on the territory of neighbouring NATO countries: raise them up ... shoot down targets, protect civilians. Can they do this? I'm sure that yes. Is this an attack by NATO countries, involvement? No.” 10 hours ago
  • Balakrishnan Rajagopal
    Balakrishnan Rajagopal “On the request by the ICC Prosecutor for warrants: against Hamas, the charges of hostage taking and killing likely to stand but not others. Against Israeli leaders, all charges likely to stick. And missing charges include attacks against various civilian objects including homes!” 13 hours ago
  • Hadja Lahbib
    Hadja Lahbib “The request submitted by the Court's prosecutor, Karim Khan, for arrest warrants against both Hamas and Israeli officials is an important step in the investigation of the situation in Palestine. Belgium will continue to support the essential work of international justice to ensure that those responsible for all crimes are held accountable.” 13 hours ago
  • Bezalel Smotrich
    Bezalel Smotrich “We haven't seen such a show of hypocrisy and hatred of Jews like that of the Hague Tribunal since Nazi propaganda.” 13 hours ago
  • Benny Gantz
    Benny Gantz “Drawing parallels between the leaders of a democratic country determined to defend itself from despicable terror to leaders of a blood-thirsty terror organisation [Hamas] is a deep distortion of justice and blatant moral bankruptcy.” 13 hours ago
  • Geoffrey Nice
    Geoffrey Nice “I'm pleased to see that the law is now occupying the place it should. Until now, politics has been suspected of holding back the application of the law and in a way that's been very unsatisfactory - now the law is saying it's going to play its part, so that's a good thing. Don't prejudge the issue, it's an application for arrest warrants by Mr Khan in respect to people on both sides and we wait for the judges decision whether to confirm or not.” 13 hours ago
  • Sami Abu Zuhri
    Sami Abu Zuhri “The decision by the ICC prosecutor to seek arrest warrants for three Hamas leaders equates the victim with the executioner. the ICC decision gives encouragement to Israel to continue its war of extermination in Gaza.” 13 hours ago
  • James Bays
    James Bays “The ICC deals with only serious crimes but when you hear what is detailed on both sides, it really is sobering. On the Israeli side, he is naming the prime minister and the defence minister but says this was a state policy, this was official government policy to use starvation as a method of war. I think it is interesting that he's decided to make this public at this stage because the other important decision by Khan [Karim Khan] in the last couple of years is when he brought an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin and his children's commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, in March 2023. At that stage, there were arrest warrants. We're not at this stage; he's gone public saying there should be arrest warrants and he needs to go to the judges. Last time, he had already gone to the judges and it was made public that the judges had approved the recommendation. I can't tell you the reason why, but perhaps he's trying to force an end to the violence by speaking out as early as possible and trying to force efforts for a ceasefire. That seems to be a possibility - why he's decided to act this way.” 13 hours ago
View All IPSEs inserted in the Last 24h

#cold war

Page with all the IPSEs stored in the archive with the tag #cold war linked to them.
The IPSEs are presented in chronological order based on when the IPSEs have been pronounced.

“The current (Yoon Suk-yeol) government has this last opportunity for denuclearization. Perhaps, we have already missed it. North Korea perceives the current situation as a new Cold War and has strengthened relations with China and Russia … This means that North Korea's need for U.S. security guarantees and, therefore, reasons for abandoning its nuclear weapons will decrease.”

author
Professor of political science and international relations at Seoul National University
Read More

“Our policy hasn't changed. But unfortunately it doesn't seem to be the same for the PRC [People's Republic of China]. The PRC moves threaten to undermine peace and stability. That isn't just a US interest, it's a matter of international concern. The US would maintain its active presence across the Asia Pacific. We will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows, and we will do this alongside our partners. Let me be clear, we do not seek confrontation or conflict. We do not seek a new Cold War, an Asian NATO or a region split into hostile blocs… [but] we will defend our interests without flinching.”

author
US Secretary of Defense
Read More

“Russia and Cyprus have longstanding links because of the Orthodox Church and the fact that Cyprus was part of the nonaligned movement in the Cold War. It had a good non-double taxation treaty with the Soviet Union, which carried on after 1990, so that generated a lot of business after the breakup of the USSR. And [Cypriots] don't have the mistrust of Russia that NATO countries have. Already since 2013 Russians had moved away from the banks, gradually they moved out of professional services sector, then they moved out of real estate, now it's right across the board.”

author
Director of consultancy firm Sapienta Economics
Read More

“It is those countries that delude themselves into thinking that they can lord it over the world after winning the Cold War, those that keep driving NATO's eastward expansion five times in disregard of other countries' security concerns, and those that wage wars across the globe while accusing other countries of being belligerent, that should really feel 'uncomfortable'.”

author
Spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry
Read More

“The long-term goals of Russia following the end of the Cold War have been to recover the great power status of Soviet Union, to be seen as equal by the West and to be able to influence political developments in its smaller neighbours like Ukraine, Moldova or Kazakhstan. However, Ukraine has been incorporating itself into the Western orbit of influence, and thus going against Putin's interests. Accordingly, placing a Russian-friendly government in Kyiv is most likely the main objective of the Kremlin's military intervention.”

author
Lecturer in Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London
Read More

“There can be no doubt that we have now the biggest concentration of military forces since the end of the Cold War in Europe.”

author
Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Read More

“China is the only power capable of using its economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to mount a sustained challenge to a stable and open international system. The world's two largest economic powers have real differences both over interests and values, but the way that you manage them counts. Chinese leaders have been increasingly vocal about their dissatisfaction with the prevailing order - and about their aim of displacing America from its global leadership role. We seek neither confrontation nor conflict... We're not seeking a new cold war or a world divided into rigid blocs.”

author
US Secretary of Defense
Read More

“Traditional diplomatic tools and mechanisms available during the Cold War and an era of unipolar U.S. dominance are gone. Without those tools and mechanisms there is a greater risk that these escalations or this escalation could lead to miscalculation. So I think that's the real challenge we have to be confronted with.”

author
Chief of the British Defense Staff
Read More

“China-US relations at the moment make countries in the region worried, and the possibility of a new Cold War between China and the US cannot be ruled out.”

author
Chairman of the Sejong Institute and former special adviser to President Moon for foreign and national security affairs
Read More

“It has not been more difficult since the end of the Cold War. We still have avenues and channels for communications with Russia, but we regret the Russian decision to close the two NATO offices in Moscow, and to also stop their activity at that NATO mission here at NATO. NATO's approach to Russia remains the same as before, meaning credible deterrence and defense, combined with efforts to have a meaningful dialogue with Russia.”

author
Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Read More

“There are good reasons that neither government wants to call it a Cold War. But they are both approaching it that way, and the politics on both sides are making it hard to imagine how we will keep it from evolving into that.”

author
Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the National Interest and longtime C.I.A. analyst
Read More

“NATO needs to be vigilant in the face of malign Russian activity and described relations with Moscow as at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. That's because of the Russian behaviour... We are ready also to convene a NATO-Russia council meeting. We have actually invited Russia for now a long time. So far, Russia has not responded positively.”

author
Secretary General of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Read More

“We're opening a new era of relentless diplomacy, of using the power of our development aid to invest in new ways of lifting people up around the world... Today, many of our greatest concerns cannot be solved or even addressed by the force of arms. Bombs and bullets cannot defend against COVID-19 or its future variants... We are not seeking a new Cold War or a world divided into rigid blocs... We will choose to build a better future. We, you and I, we have the will and capacity to make it better. Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot afford to waste any more time. We can do this.”

author
President of the United States
Read More

“When the Rafale [fighter jet] enter service in a few months, Turkey will have a serious problem in the balance of power vis-a-vis Greece. And if the Americans embargo spare parts for their existing F-16s, then the problem will become extremely serious, at least for the medium term. If it [Turkey] buys Sukhoi it will be a much more decisive step away from the Western architecture than the S-400 purchase … We are at the start of a Cold War. Turkey's move may be an irreversible rift with the West.”

author
Professor of geopolitics and weapons systems at the Hellenic Army Academy
Read More

“What China wants to avoid is the kind of Cold War containment where its neighbours are pulled into an antagonistic relationship. Their answer to this militaristic approach is an economic one.”

author
Beijing-based political analyst
Read More

“The whole U.S. establishment seems to have shifted, very sharply, against China. There has been almost a Cold War reflex - a sense [we in the U.S. are] fighting on behalf of everyone, because a peaceful [Chinese] rise didn't pan out and confrontation is necessary to force China to change the way it behaves.”

author
Head of Washington's Canada Institute
Read More

“The reason why US politicians are getting nervous and frustrated over the Communist Party of China's (CPC) leadership of China is that they found the CPC's leadership is the key reason for China's fast development, which creates the most serious pushback for the US' hegemony. So if we want to win this competition that was forced by the US, we must focus on our own development and not get distracted. The US is not afraid of a cold war with us, it is afraid of our development.”

author
Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University
Read More
IPSEs by Author
IPSEs by Country
arrow