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 ...

It was built on two fallacies: 1) that containment will somehow force Stalinism into a change of heart or internal collapse—while actually, after six years of containment, Communist power is ...

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 ...

The Korean War was the first “hot war” of the Cold War between the Soviet-led communist world and the West, led by the United States. And its inconclusive end signaled the triumph in U.S ...

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 ...

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.