Challenging the Chimera of Global Economic Engagement with China

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On China Insider, Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu discussed Beijing’s hypocritical reaction to Japan releasing Fukushima wastewater. And in the Taipei Times, he reminds Western policymakers that their counterparts in the Chinese Communist Party serve only themselves.

Afghan Women Despair Taliban Rule, Yet Resolute for Change

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Two years after America’s disastrous withdrawal, “Afghan women stand resolute in their pursuit of change,” writes Hudson Visiting Fellow Adela Raz, the former Afghan ambassador to Washington, in The Messenger.

How the War Could Make Ukraine a Defense Powerhouse

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In Arab News, Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey explains that Ukraine’s bolstered defense industrial base makes Kyiv a powerful and important ally to the United States and its partners.

The US Submarine Force Should Be Silent No More

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“The US undersea force will need to generate noise and hide in the resulting chaos” to succeed against Chinese anti-submarine measures, writes Hudson Center for Defense Concepts and Technology Director Bryan Clark in Defense News.

Pioneering Progress: How a Munitions Campus Propels the US Defense Industrial Base Forward

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Hudson Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow lists five reasons the Pentagon’s new “campus” strategy for munitions production is a step toward implementing defense industrial base reform—rather than merely talking about it—in Breaking Defense.

BEFORE YOU GO...

In the Wall Street Journal, Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead explains that Russia can still score geopolitical successes in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia thanks to Vladimir Putin’s greatest asset: the West’s weak and incoherent strategy to counter him.