New Counterbalance Podcast Episode featuring Michael R. Pompeo

Hudson Distinguished Fellow and former Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo sat down with Michael Doran and Marshall Kosloff to discuss the key foreign policy challenges facing the United States and what the U.S. should be doing to deter threats from adversaries like Iran and China.

Detente May Be an Option with North Korea

Dictator Kim Jong-un. (Photo by API/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

The nuclear impasse isn’t the only factor shaping U.S.-North Korea relations, writes Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal. North Korea is a small country with limited resources on the border of an expansionist superpower, on which it relies almost entirely for diplomatic and economic support. It’s time for the Biden administration to consider the potential gains of facilitating North Korea’s escape from China’s orbit.

Defeating the Chinese Communist Party: What's the Role for Philanthropists?

Chinese President Xi Jinping. (Photo by Xinhua/Li Gang via Getty Images)

It is crucial that America’s philanthropists play an active role in countering the threat to U.S. interests from China, writes Tim Morrison in the Philanthropy Roundtable. How can they do this? Among other measures, philanthropists can provide the resources to mobilize and educate immigrant communities and harness a bipartisan coalition of interests groups to demand action in response to China's human rights abuses.

A Long, Twilight Struggle: The Future of US-China Relations 

A propaganda billboard depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China. The sign reads: "We should build a people's army with a good style of work, able to win battles under the command of the Party." (Photo by Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images)

The U.S. finds itself in the midst of a “long, twilight struggle” with China over the future of U.S.-China relations and the world order, Charles Horner and Eric Brown write in American Purpose. China spends billions of dollars every year on a global propaganda campaign that peddles a false narrative of a united and secure China, when the reality on the ground is far more complicated. U.S. policy must recognize this fact if it is to successfully navigate its relations with China.

Suez Canal's Shutdown is a Lesson for Naval Powers

The Ever Given container ship. (Photo by AHMAD HASSAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The recent debacle in the Suez Canal demonstrates the disastrous consequences that impediments to shipping can have on international trade, writes Seth Cropsey and Harry Halem in The Hill. Luckily, the Ever Given disruption was temporary and bloodless—but the next disruption may not be if the vulnerabilities the incident exposed are not addressed.

BEFORE YOU GO...

Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellows Liselotte Odgaard and Thomas Duesterberg and experts Mathieu Duchâtel and Giulio Pugliese for a discussion this Friday on Europe’s innovative industrial basis capability and the challenge of remaining at the forefront of technological developments.