Why Is China So Obsessed with Taiwan?

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Since failing to subsume Taiwan in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party has been obsessed with the island nation. In the Taipei Times, Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu explains why the West needs to understand the motivations behind the People’s Republic of China’s mania in order to thwart Beijing’s hegemonic ambition.

Does Helping Ukraine Hurt Taiwan?

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Hudson Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs explained how US withdrawal from the world stage would hurt America and its allies; why China and Russia are each other’s closest allies; and that “diplomacy only works with credible threats and hard power,” on the American Foreign Policy Council’s Great Power Podcast.

Washington Journal: Russia-Ukraine Conflict and Finland's NATO Accession

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Hudson Center on Europe and Eurasia Director Peter Rough appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to explain the global significance of Finland’s accession to NATO, and why US aid to Ukraine is vital to break the stalemate.

How Finland’s Accession Adds Heft to the NATO Alliance

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“Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed everything,” writes Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey. In Arab News, he explains why Finland joining NATO is an important reminder that the alliance’s door is open—and neutral nations from Ireland to Kosovo should take notice.

How Obama Killed Nuclear Nonproliferation

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Former President Barack Obama’s failure to uphold the Budapest Memorandum in response to Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea dealt a critical blow to arms control efforts as leaders around the world realized that “trusting the word of a US president . . . rather than relying on a nuclear deterrent was a blunder of historic proportions,” writes Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal.

BEFORE YOU GO...

In the latest episode of China Insider, Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu and Media Fellow Wilson Shirley discussed China’s reaction to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s visit to the United States, the folly of French President Emmanuel Macron’s “strategic autonomy,” and what an ongoing banking crisis in rural China says about the health of the country’s financial sector.