With millions of Americans using TikTok, Jonathan Ward argues that stopping the Chinese Communist Party from controlling the app is a crucial step for the United States in its strategic competition with China.

In the Wall Street Journal, Walter Russell Mead writes that the House’s recent national security bills signal that America needs to be stronger and do better.

Nadia Schadlow warns of a “repetition crisis” that is preventing the US from addressing the shortfalls of its defense industrial base. Specifically, new administrations tend to start over fresh without considering existing recommendations or why past efforts failed.

America’s deployment of special forces to Kinmen, a small Taiwanese island near the People’s Republic of China, marks a monumental shift in US military and foreign policy that challenges doctrines held since the Truman administration. Miles Yu explains why this matters.

Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell joins Hudson’s Patrick Cronin to discuss Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s Washington visit, the most significant upgrade of the US-Japan alliance since its inception. Watch the event live at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

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Software will play a crucial role in keeping American defense technology at the cutting edge. But much of the Pentagon’s software remains stuck in the 1990s, warns Bryan Clark on Arsenal of Democracy.