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Editorial: Weather balloon incident reveals serious chill factor in new cold war
Postponement of the first US diplomatic trip to China in four years was an over-reaction and a missed opportunity for rapprochement
The Cold War rivalry between the US and the USSR was real and ferocious. Each was armed with nuclear weapons; each was capable of over-reaction. Yet the rivalry had its surreal moments, such as when, in 1987, a small plane piloted by a German teenager descended from the skies above Moscow and landed a few metres from Red Square.
Initially there was more of the latter incident about a rogue balloon spotted gliding serenely in ...