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NEW POLICY MEMO: The Chinese Communist Party’s Economic Challenge to the Free World

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The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) poses a mortal threat to the United States and the global free market system, warns [[link removed]] Miles Yu in his first policy memo for Hudson Institute. Unlike other communist countries, China has enjoyed open access to international trade, capital markets, and advanced technologies—equipping the CCP with the economic power to wreak havoc on U.S. interests. The U.S. must act urgently to prevent the CCP from re-shaping the global order in its own image.

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Cheer Up About the Middle East

People wait for the bus on a street in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021 (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Ten years after Seal Team Six ended Osama bin Laden’s terrorist career, most observers think of America’s 21st-century Middle East policy as a succession of ghastly failures—yet the U.S. has dramatically reduced the ability of regional upheavals to provoke major crises around the world, argues Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]]. As the Biden administration addresses the remaining issue that poses a major threat to U.S. regional interests—Iran’s quest for regional superpower status based on its nuclear program and support for militias and terrorists—it should reflect on what Washington and its allies have gotten right over the past 20 years.

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NEW Episode of Counterbalance: Wang Xiyue

On the latest episode of Counterbalance, Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran and Media Fellow Marshall Kosloff sit down with Wang Xiyue to discuss [[link removed]] how his time as a captive in the notorious Evin prison in Iran changed his worldview. In 2016 the Iranian authorities convicted Wang Xiyue on trumped-up charges of spying in order to use him as a bargaining chip against the U.S., detaining him until 2019. This terrible period changed not only his views on Iran but also on the American progressives who have failed to acknowledge his experiences.

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The US Role on the Global Stage

U.S. Navy ships in the South China Sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Cheyenne Geletka/Released)

China’s growing economic power poses a threat not only to America’s status as the world’s superior global power, but the liberal international order that has been the foundation for U.S. foreign policy, writes Seth Cropsey in the U.S. Naval Institute [[link removed]]. President Roosevelt famously failed to anticipate the threat posed by the Soviet Union’s fundamental hostility to American interests; President Biden would do well to learn from that mistake and recognize the threat that the CCP poses to the U.S. and democracy.

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President Biden must reengage in the Middle East if the U.S. is to retain its status as the preeminent global power, Douglas J. Feith writes [[link removed]] in his contribution to a new report from the University of Haifa. There are major developments occurring in the Middle East that require the Biden administration’s urgent attention, including civil wars in Syria, Yemen, and Libya, the deterioration of Lebanon, and the political instability of Iraq and Iran.

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ICYMI: Hudson Institute’s Aparna Pande and Nina Shea and expert panelists Daud Khattak, Deepali Kulkarni, and Farahnaz Ispahani discussed the religious persecution faced by Pakistan’s Hindu minority. In recent years, reports by civil society organizations, international human rights groups, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan have documented a rise in the forced conversion of Hindus in Pakistan—especially by targeting young Hindu girls through forced marriages and kidnappings. What can be done to stop these worrying developments? Watch this important discussion to learn more.

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