No images? Click here (Screenshot via NewsNation) Hudson Visiting Fellow Adela Raz, the former Afghan ambassador to the US, examines the failures that allowed the Taliban to regain control over Afghanistan on NewsNation. Biden’s New Approach to the Middle East (Mandel Ngan/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) “Deepening formal security ties between Israel and Saudi Arabia could be the foundation of a new regional security architecture that secures critical American interests while reducing the long-term need for American military presence in the region,” writes Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead in the Wall Street Journal. Ignoring Lukashenko’s Bluster Is No Longer a Viable Strategy (Dmitry Astakhov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, the largest enabler of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine, now hosts both the Wagner Group and, allegedly, Russian nuclear weapons. In Arab News, Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey warns that NATO cannot ignore the threat from Belarus. The CCP's Faltering Economy, US and Japan Missile Development, and the US-China Spy War (China Insider Logo) Following the revelation that Chinese agents had infiltrated the US military, Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu and Program Manager Shane Leary discuss Beijing’s global spy networks, the roots of China’s failing economy, and US-Japan cooperation on hypersonic missiles on China Insider. The Promise of Camp David: Trilateral Summit Is a Watershed for Asian Security (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images) Ahead of the upcoming United States–Japan–South Korea summit, Hudson Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin argues in Korea on Point that this trilateral relationship could be the new scaffolding of a free and open Indo-Pacific. BEFORE YOU GO... Americans have largely forgotten the Korean War. But in China, it is celebrated as the “War to Resist America and Aid Korea.” Congressman Mike Gallagher and Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Senior Fellow Aaron MacLean sat down with Hudson Senior Fellows Peter Rough and Michael Doran to discuss what this distinction means on Counterbalance. |