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China Cold War Stock Photos

Browse 1,072 china cold war photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

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Socialism, Former Soviet Union, Cold War

President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai toast, February 25, 1972 during Nixon's visit to Communist China.

US President Richard Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai toast.

Richard Nixon, Cold War, USA

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: During the Korean War (1950-1953) an interrogation team of the US 7th Infantry Division question a POW, Anvang-Ni, 20 September, 1950.

South Korea, North Korea, Korea

north korea nuclear crisis concept - china cold war stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

North Korea nuclear crisis concept

USA, Nuclear Weapon, South Korea

Guests listen socially distanced as U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on Communist China and the future of the free world on July...

Secretary Of State Pompeo Delivers Speech On China At The Richard Nixon Presidential Library

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea / China: Peng Dehuai (left), Commander in Chief Chinese People's Volunteer Army in Korea, discusses strategy with North Korean leader Kim Il-sung somewhere in North Korea, c. 1951.

Kim Il-sung, Korean War

William Rodgers US Secretary of State; Henry Kissinger US National security advisor; Zhou Enlai Chinese Prime Minister and Richard Nixon US President...

Zhou Enlai Chinese Prime Minister and Richard Nixon US President in talks.

Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Visit

This picture taken on February 21, 2017 shows a tourist visiting the "816 Nuclear Military Engineering" installation in the mountains of Fuling...

DOUNIAMAG-CHINA-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-MILITARY-WEAPONRY

Nuclear Weapon, Nuclear Power Station

President Nixon inspects his food during a banquet in Hangzhou, China.

Nixon at Chinese Banquet

Richard Nixon, Banquet, Food

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

With her brother on her back a war-weary Korean girl trudges by a M-26 tank at Haengju.

Korea, South Korea, North Korea

This picture taken on February 21, 2017 shows a group of tourists visiting the "816 Nuclear Military Engineering" installation in the mountains of...

CHINA-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-MILITARY-WEAPONRY

Nuclear Weapon, Nuclear Power Station

This picture taken on February 21, 2017 shows visitors during a tour of the "816 Nuclear Military Engineering" installation in the mountains of...

CHINA-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-MILITARY-WEAPONRY

Northern Taiwan, January 5, 2026: The Three Soldiers, a public art installation by a local Taiwanese artist, commemorates generations of troops once...

Taiwan Daily Life 2026

How big is the world's nuclear arsenal? Here are the stockpiles of the nine countries with nuclear weapons. Data source: Federation of American...

Which Countries Have the Most Nuclear Weapons?

Nuclear Weapon, Missile, Pakistan

Crowd of demonstrators gathers on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, May 1971, during the "Mayday" demonstrations against the United States'...

UNITED STATES-VIETNAM WAR-DEMONSTRATION-ANTIWAR MOVEMENT-MAYDAY-CAPITOL

Student, USA, Demonstration

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: During the Korean War (1950-1953), a line of US Army soldiers file past a group of Korean women and children carrying their possessions.

Korean War, USA, Korea

Northern Taiwan January 5, 2026:The Three Soldiers, a public art installation by a local Taiwanese artist, commemorates generations of troops once...

Taiwan Daily Life 2026

This picture taken on February 21, 2017 shows a tourist visiting the "816 Nuclear Military Engineering" installation in the mountains of Fuling...

TOPSHOT-CHINA-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-MILITARY-WEAPONRY

Hungry Chinese besiege a Shanghai store for cheap rice. The Sino-Japanese conflict during World War II has combined with recent cold weather to cause...

Hungry Chinese Besiege Shop For Cheap Rice

Shanghai, Hungry

Berlin: Two West Berlin women go about their daily chores in spite of this Red version of the Great Wall of China here August 27th. In further effort...

The Berlin Wall When in 1961

Northern Taiwan January 5, 2026:An abandoned Taiwanese military pillbox stands along Taiwan's rugged northeastern coastline, overlooking the East...

Taiwan Daily Life 2026

Northern Taiwan. The Three Soldiers, a public art installation by a local Taiwanese artist, commemorates generations of troops once stationed along...

Taiwan Daily Life 2026

President of the Council of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev welcomes Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru at Vnukovo Airport in Moscow on...

USSR-INDIA-NEHRU-KHRUSHCHEV-DIPLOMACY-OFFICIAL VISIT-AIRPORT-COLD WAR

This photo taken on on May 12, 2013 shows the Russian embassy in Beijing. China's new leader Xi Jinping recently hailed strong relations between...

CHINA-RUSSIA-DIPLOMACY

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea / China: A Chinese propaganda poster opposing the USAF bombing in the Korean War, 1952. The Chinese text reads: 'Stamp out the flames of war, save the peace!'.

Propaganda, Poster

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: Troops of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army in Korea somewhere in North Korea c. 1951.

Former Soviet Union, Korea

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea / USA: A USAF recruiting poster from the last year of the Korean War (1950-1953)

USA, Cold War, Poster

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivers a speech on Communist China and the future of the free world at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library on...

Secretary Of State Pompeo Delivers Speech On China At The Richard Nixon Presidential Library

This picture taken on February 21, 2017 shows a man walking in "816 Nuclear Military Engineering" installation in the mountains of Fuling district,...

CHINA-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-MILITARY-WEAPONRY

This picture taken on February 21, 2017 shows visitors during a tour of the "816 Nuclear Military Engineering" installation in the mountains of...

CHINA-TOURISM-NUCLEAR-MILITARY-WEAPONRY

Nuclear Weapon, Nuclear Power Station

Going it alone, Vicky cartoon 12th April 1954 John Forster Dulles seen here as a bull in a china shop as Sir Anthony Eden and Chairman Mao look on

Going it alone, Vicky cartoon 12th April 1954 John Forster Dulles seen here as a bull in a china shop as Sir Anthony Ede

Cartoon, Cold War, Korean War

Ping pong players Zheng Huaiying from China and American Judy Hoarfrost, both members of the original pong pong diplomacy teams square off in in a...

Ping pong players (lt to rt) Zheng Huaiying from China and American Judy Hoarfrost, both members of

East German children's author and former Soviet spy, Ruth Werner , at her home in East Germany, April 1972. Born Ursula Kuczynski , she was formerly...

Spy, Cold War, Surveillance

Photo taken in the 1970's outside of Cambodia, shows China's chairman Mao Zedong greeting top Khmer Rouge official Ieng Sary , also known as "...

A photo taken in the 1970's outside of Cambodia, s

Pol Pot, Mao Tse-tung, Cambodia

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USA and Communism Yin Yang

Northern Taiwan. An abandoned Taiwanese military pillbox stands along Taiwan's rugged northeastern coastline, overlooking the East China Sea. The...

Taiwan Daily Life 2026

Northern Taiwan. The Three Soldiers, a public art installation by a local Taiwanese artist, commemorates generations of troops once stationed along...

Taiwan Daily Life 2026

Bruno Le Maire, France's finance minister, center, arrives for the state dinner marking the visit of China's President Xi Jinping, at the Elysee...

China's President Xi Jinping Begins Europe Tour

Emmanuel Macron, France's president, right, greets Xi Jinping, China's president, ahead of the state dinner marking the visit at the Elysee Palace in...

China's President Xi Jinping Begins Europe Tour

Emmanuel Macron

Comedian dressed up in a Chinese Communist revolutionary "Red Guard" uniform performs for customers at a restaurant, while holding a Mao's famous...

CHINA-MAO-RESTAURANT

China exploded it's first hydrogen bomb on june 17, 1967.

China exploded it's first hydrogen bomb on june 17, 1967.

Atomic Bomb, Hydrogen Bomb, Nuclear Weapon

Douglas Hsu, chairman of Taiwan's Far Eastone Telecommunications, waves to the press during a ceremony in Taipei to link the first undersea...

TAIWAN-CHINA-TELECOM-CABLE

Taiwan, Undersea

handshake of usa and china - flat design - china cold war stock illustrations

Handshake of USA and China - flat design

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: 'Why be Hungry?' UN propaganda poster dropped behind communist lines encouraging hungry troops to desert and eat their fill in the south, 1951.

Poster, Propaganda

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

China / Korea: Propaganda poster celebrating the prowess of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) in 1951 at the height of the Korean War.

Poster, Propaganda, Korean War

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: South Korean leaflet portraying a mad communist propaganda machine spouting slogans while (below) people's tongues are nailed to a plank.

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: Communist propaganda picture of Korean women preparing boiled potatoes with members of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (CPVA) somewhere in North Korea, 1950-1951.

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: Chinese communist troops surrender to Charley Company, 7th Marines, south of Koto-ri, 9 December 1950.

USA, Korean War

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: Men of the US 1st Marine Division capture Chinese Communist soldiers during fighting on the central Korean front, Hoengsong, March 1951.

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: Chinese and North Koreans at the United Nations Pusan Prisoner of War Camp, April 1951.

Korean War, Prisoner

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea: Korean civilians mourning over the corpses of friends and relatives massacred by the communist forces, November 1950.

Former Soviet Union, Korea, Korean War

The S-75 Dvina is a Soviet-designed, high-altitude, command guided, surface-to-air missile system. Since its first deployment in 1957, it has become...

Vietnam-USSR: Two SA-2 Guideline (S-75 Dvina) missiles in the National Museum of Military History in Sofia, Bulgaria, 2008. Photo by Tourbillon (CC BY 3.0 License)

Missile, Cuba, Crisis

The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's...

Korea / USA: A USAF recruiting poster for Women in the Air Force (WAF) during the Korean WAr (1950-1953)

Icebergs near Ilulissat, Greenland. Climate change is having a profound effect in Greenland with glaciers and the Greenland ice cap retreating.

Greenland, Rare-Earth Element, Mineral

Worker removes the sign at the entrance to the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province on July 25, 2020. - China on July 24 ordered the US...

TOPSHOT-CHINA-US-DIPLOMACY

People are seen inside the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province on July 25, 2020. - China on July 24 ordered the US consulate in the...

CHINA-US-DIPLOMACY

People walk inside the US consulate in Chengdu, in Sichuan province on July 25, 2020. - China on July 24 ordered the US consulate in the southwestern...

CHINA-US-DIPLOMACY

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin takes a question during the daily Foreign Ministry briefing in Beijing on July 24, 2020. - China on...

CHINA-US-DIPLOMACY

Wang Wenbin, USA, Meeting

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin takes a question during the daily Foreign Ministry briefing in Beijing on July 24, 2020. - China on...

CHINA-US-DIPLOMACY

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo walks with former California Gov. Pete Wilson from the childhood home and now presidential library of Richard Nixon to...

Secretary Of State Pompeo Delivers Speech On China At The Richard Nixon Presidential Library

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