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, Hudson Senior Fellow Tod Lindberg writes that Ukraine is effectively a member of NATO—it just needs to complete the paperwork. 

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 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 in Defense One.

US Cluster Munitions to Ukraine

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Hudson Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs explained why the American cluster munitions headed to Ukraine are significantly less dangerous to civilians than the Russian equivalent on Fox Business.

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. In Taipei Times, he lays out why Chinese Communist Party elites fear the potential of a similar armed mutiny gaining popular support in China.

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 explains the economic importance of deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in The Messenger.

BEFORE YOU GO...

In his new podcast What Really Matters, Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead separates the signal from the noise in current events. In the first episode, he discusses the remote-work revolution, nineteenth-century French industrial policy, and living in the shadow of a singularity.