The disintegration of Soviet Union and acute transformations of east Europe signified the end of Cold War, which lasted over half a century, then the world entered into a new age, Post Cold-War Age.

苏联解体、东欧剧变标志着持续近半个世纪之久的冷战结束了，世界由此进入了一个新的时代——后冷战时代。

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But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.

ECONOMIST: America the unmighty