If creating a fissure between Moscow and Beijing is indeed the ultimate aim, Trump's vision is both naive and shortsighted.

Longtime American journalist swayed the Times into publishing the Pentagon Papers, won Pulitzer Prize for coverage of Nixon's ...

He is survived by his wife Joyce Purnick, a former reporter and editor at The Times, his three children and six grandchildren ...

The idea of using sports to mend diplomatic rifts has been debated for decades, but history offers compelling proof of its ...

U.S. support for Taiwan has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades. Here's what's at stake as Trump rewrites the rules of ...

Richard Nixon is remembered as the president who carried out a pivotal shift in the US’ postwar foreign policy. His foreign policy included the Nixon Doctrine, a thaw with China, and a détente with ...

The journalist helped shepherd the top-secret Pentagon Papers into print in 1971 and won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of ...

Nevertheless, the “reverse Kissinger” is a bad case of applied history, which fails to grapple with different geopolitical ...

The moment was captured by photographers and quickly made headlines. Cowan, now an unwitting ambassador, expressed a desire to visit China-a place completely off-limits to Americans at the time.

Lauded by some as a master of diplomacy and realpolitik, he remains, in the eyes of others, a war criminal who should have ...