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A stable domestic steel supply is vital for the United States’ security and economic independence. In a new Hudson memo, Paul Sracic explains what President Donald Trump’s decision to green-light the Nippon Steel–US Steel partnership means for the American steel industry and the future of the administration’s tariff policy.
“Decades of neglect have hollowed out Western defenses, and both the military foundations of American power and the political underpinnings of our alliance system are in poor condition,” writes Walter Russell Mead. In The Wall Street Journal, he warns that a new era of great power war is not inevitable, but it is getting harder to prevent.
Tune in live as Senator James Risch (R-ID), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joins Michael Doran to discuss the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East. The event will begin with opening remarks from President and CEO John P. Walters at 4:00 p.m.
Representatives Young Kim (R-CA), Joe Wilson (R-SC), and Tom Suozzi (D-NY) joined Hudson for the launch of Unbroken: One Uyghur’s Fight for Freedom, a new memoir by Campaign for Uyghurs Executive Director Rushan Abbas.
Pakistan has long been a textbook praetorian state: a polity where political institutions are too weak to contain or guide the power of the state’s military. Aparna Pande argues that the latest Kashmir crisis has reaffirmed and revitalized the Pakistani military’s stranglehold over the country’s political system.
Before you go . . .
On Deep Dive, Jonathan Hessen and John P. Walters discuss the economic, political, and military problems that the US faces in an increasingly dangerous world.
