Because “carrots have never worked with Beijing,” Hudson Senior Fellow Thomas Duesterberg identifies four “sticks” Joe Biden can use to protect America’s interests when the president meets with Xi Jinping. Learn more in the Wall Street Journal.

Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran explains Iran’s goals in the Israel-Hamas war and how America’s foreign policy has empowered the Islamic Republic on Sky News.

Also, be sure to subscribe to Three Things about the Israel-Hamas War, Hudson’s weekly update on the latest military, political, and strategic developments in the region and beyond.

The anti-Israel protests in cities and on campuses across the United States mirror the genocidal rhetoric of the 2017 Charlottesville, Virginia, rally that Biden claims inspired him to run for president. It’s time for him to respond again, argues Hudson Senior Fellow Jonathan Schachter in Forward.

As Iranian proxies target American assets in the Middle East and Tehran hides under the cover of plausible deniability, Hudson Research Fellow Ahmad Hashemi argues in The Hill that the Biden administration needs to establish plausible deterrence—as the Trump administration did by removing Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani.

Governor Chris Christie will sit down for a fireside chat with Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran to discuss the governor’s recent trip to Israel in the latest installment of Hudson’s Presidential Speech Series today at 12:00 p.m.

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With the war in Ukraine at a decisive moment, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak visited Hudson to discuss President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s plan for peace with Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey.