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This Isn’t Your Father’s NATO
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If Ukraine fends off Russia now, it is barely a question whether Kyiv would come to the defense of Poland, Lithuania, or Finland in the future. In the Wall Street Journal [[link removed]], Hudson Senior Fellow Tod Lindberg [[link removed]] writes that Ukraine is effectively a member of NATO—it just needs to complete the paperwork.
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Someone’s Missing from NATO’s Spending Debates
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Just seven of NATO’s 31 members will meet the two-percent defense spending minimum this year. Among other steps [[link removed]] the alliance should take, NATO needs to give finance ministers—who control the purse strings in most European parliamentary democracies—a seat at the table, argues Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey [[link removed]] in Defense One [[link removed]].
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US Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
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Hudson Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs [[link removed]] explained why the American cluster munitions headed to Ukraine are significantly less dangerous to civilians than the Russian equivalent on Fox Business [[link removed]].
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China’s Lessons—and Fears—from the Wagner Revolt in Russia
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“Political earthquakes in Moscow will always make waves in Beijing,” writes Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu [[link removed]]. In Taipei Times [[link removed]], he lays out why Chinese Communist Party elites fear the potential of a similar armed mutiny gaining popular support in China.
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Losing Taiwan’s Semiconductors Would Devastate the US Economy
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A significant disruption to Taiwan’s semiconductor industry could do as much as $1.6 trillion in damage to the US economy. Hudson Senior Fellow Riley Walters [[link removed]] explains the economic importance of deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in The Messenger [[link removed]].
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BEFORE YOU GO...
In his new podcast What Really Matters [[link removed]], Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] separates the signal from the noise in current events. In the first episode [[link removed]], he discusses the remote-work revolution, nineteenth-century French industrial policy, and living in the shadow of a singularity.
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