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Cold War 2 is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese police procedural action thriller film written and directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. The film is a sequel to the 2012 box office hit, Cold War, and stars returning cast members Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng, Aarif Rahman and Ma Yili, joined by new cast members Chow Yun-fat, Janice Man, Tony Yang and Bibi Zhou. Cold War 2 was released on 8 July 2016 in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D. Plot The Hong Kong Police Force holds a funeral for two Senior Assistant Commissioners killed during the previous film. Shortly after, Commissioner Sean Lau (Aaron Kwok) receives a call from one of the culprits behind the theft of the police van. He is told that his wife has been kidnapped and that he must release Joe Lee (Eddie Peng) for her to survive. Lau overrides standard procedure to transfer Joe out of prison, and is told by the kidnapper to bring Joe to the metro station. There, Joe is able to escape with the aid of several accomplices, one of whom sets off a bomb. The culprits leave Lau's wife alive at the station. Lau's actions are criticized by the media and by numerous politicians, leading to a public inquiry. Fearing that the police have been infiltrated, Lau privately requests Billy Cheung (Aarif Rahman), an ICAC Principal Investigator who assisted him in the previous movie, to form a separate squad independent of the police, so they can track down the culprits. Meanwhile, MB Lee (Tony Leung), a deputy police commissioner who is about to retire, is confronted by his fugitive son along with Peter Choi (Chang Kuo-chu), a former police commissioner and MB Lee's mentor who is now manipulating politics behind the scenes. Choi is revealed as the mastermind behind the troubles of the previous film, and his current goal is to remove Lau, who is not a member of his ring, and to place his own followers into positions of power during the next election. Choi has formed a militant band consisting of former police officers who were expelled or faked their own deaths. He promises Lee not only the position of commissioner, but also of security secretary later on, upon which Lee gives into temptation and help his son.

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“Fred Halliday, in The Making of the Second Cold War (1982, ), in reference to the later phases of the original Cold War.”
— p. 23: The military threat contained within the Second Cold War therefore makes it a far more ominous confrontation than was Cold War I.
“Calling twenty-first-century great-power tensions a new Cold War therefore obscures more than it reveals. It is a kind of terminological laziness that equates the conflicts of yesteryear, which most analysts happen to know well, with what takes place today.”
— , in "Has a New Cold War Really Begun?", Foreign Affairs (27 March 2018)
“[...] a second round of the cold war may ensue as a punishment for leaving many issues unsolved”
— Dmitri Trenin, in "The crisis in Crimea could lead the world into a second cold war", The Guardian (2 March 2014)
“Experts in Russia agreed that Putin was sending a very blunt message to the Trump Administration—if Washington wants a new Cold War, Moscow is up for a rematch.”
— Dave Majumdar, in "Russia's Nuclear Weapons Buildup Is Aimed at Beating U.S. Missile Defenses", The National Interest (1 March 2018)
“[F]irst, the two presidents [Putin and Donald Trump] must publicly come clean regarding the 2016 election campaign. Otherwise, there will be no breakthroughs, and Cold War Two will continue with no end in sight.”
— Dov S. Zakheim, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense, in "America and Russia: Time to Come Clean", The National Interest (16 August 2017)
“Greg Kesich: "Anti-corruption, here and abroad, should be the anti-communism of Cold War II."”
— in "The View From Here: New Cold War needs a new Free World", (27 February 2022)

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Cold War 2 is a 2016 Hong Kong-Chinese police procedural action thriller film written and directed by Longman Leung and Sunny Luk. The film is a sequel to the 2012 box office hit, Cold War, and stars returning cast members Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung, Charlie Young, Eddie Peng, Aarif Rahman and Ma Yili, joined by new cast members Chow Yun-fat, Janice Man, Tony Yang and Bibi Zhou. Cold War 2 was released on 8 July 2016 in 2D, 3D and IMAX 3D. Plot The Hong Kong Police Force holds a funeral for two Senior Assistant Commissioners killed during the previous film. Shortly after, Commissioner Sean Lau (Aaron Kwok) receives a call from one of the culprits behind the theft of the police van. He is told that his wife has been kidnapped and that he must release Joe Lee (Eddie Peng) for her to survive. Lau overrides standard procedure to transfer Joe out of prison, and is told by the kidnapper to bring Joe to the metro station. There, Joe is able to escape with the aid of several accomplices, one of whom sets off a bomb. The culprits leave Lau's wife alive at the station. Lau's actions are criticized by the media and by numerous politicians, leading to a public inquiry. Fearing that the police have been infiltrated, Lau privately requests Billy Cheung (Aarif Rahman), an ICAC Principal Investigator who assisted him in the previous movie, to form a separate squad independent of the police, so they can track down the culprits. Meanwhile, MB Lee (Tony Leung), a deputy police commissioner who is about to retire, is confronted by his fugitive son along with Peter Choi (Chang Kuo-chu), a former police commissioner and MB Lee's mentor who is now manipulating politics behind the scenes. Choi is revealed as the mastermind behind the troubles of the previous film, and his current goal is to remove Lau, who is not a member of his ring, and to place his own followers into positions of power during the next election. Choi has formed a militant band consisting of former police officers who were expelled or faked their own deaths. He promises Lee not only the position of commissioner, but also of security secretary later on, upon which Lee gives into temptation and help his son.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“Fred Halliday, in The Making of the Second Cold War (1982, ), in reference to the later phases of the original Cold War.”
— p. 23: The military threat contained within the Second Cold War therefore makes it a far more ominous confrontation than was Cold War I.
“Calling twenty-first-century great-power tensions a new Cold War therefore obscures more than it reveals. It is a kind of terminological laziness that equates the conflicts of yesteryear, which most analysts happen to know well, with what takes place today.”
— , in "Has a New Cold War Really Begun?", Foreign Affairs (27 March 2018)
“[...] a second round of the cold war may ensue as a punishment for leaving many issues unsolved”
— Dmitri Trenin, in "The crisis in Crimea could lead the world into a second cold war", The Guardian (2 March 2014)
“Experts in Russia agreed that Putin was sending a very blunt message to the Trump Administration—if Washington wants a new Cold War, Moscow is up for a rematch.”
— Dave Majumdar, in "Russia's Nuclear Weapons Buildup Is Aimed at Beating U.S. Missile Defenses", The National Interest (1 March 2018)
“[F]irst, the two presidents [Putin and Donald Trump] must publicly come clean regarding the 2016 election campaign. Otherwise, there will be no breakthroughs, and Cold War Two will continue with no end in sight.”
— Dov S. Zakheim, former US Deputy Secretary of Defense, in "America and Russia: Time to Come Clean", The National Interest (16 August 2017)
“Greg Kesich: "Anti-corruption, here and abroad, should be the anti-communism of Cold War II."”
— in "The View From Here: New Cold War needs a new Free World", (27 February 2022)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.