It is worth noting that containment played little role in communism’s three biggest setbacks during the Cold War; each was substantially self-inflicted. In 1948, Stalin tried and failed to bring ...

In a rare rebuke of US policy, Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Monday accused Washington of leading “containment, encirclement and suppression” efforts against the communist power which are ...

China’s Communist Party will directly oversee science and technology with the creation of a central commission as part of a plan to counter US-led attempts to contain development of Chinese ...

Henry Kissinger, who died at 100 on Wednesday, achieved wealth, power and worldwide fame as the master of geopolitical chess who guided US foreign policy. The former secretary of state and ...

China’s ruling Communist Party will set up a central committee to oversee the science and technology sector, as part of a major reshuffle of state and party institutions to speed up advancement ...

INSKEEP: I'm glad you mentioned that word, containment. It's a word leftover from the Cold War. That was the explicit U.S. policy toward the old Soviet Union - to contain communism.

In the 40th president’s inaugural address, Reagan declared that “the West will not contain communism, it will transcend communism.” He felt so strongly about this that he walked out of a ...