David Asher on the Wuhan Lab Leak Hypothesis

Hudson Senior Fellow David Asher with Martha MacCallum on Fox News

The Biden administration has ordered a new investigation of the origins of COVID-19 and the hypothesis that it resulted from a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology— a development welcomed by Hudson Senior Fellow David Asher in an interview with Martha MacCallum on Fox News. As the lead investigator of the now-shuttered State Department probe into the outbreak of coronavirus, Asher has been a vocal proponent of the theory that the virus originated in a lab, as opposed to the natural zoonotic origin asserted by the Chinese authorities.  

A Golden Age for Genocide

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas speaks to the media to confirm that Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia over Germany's admitted colonial-era genocide on May 28, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

New genocides are emerging faster than symbolic apologies can be made for the old ones, writes Walter Russell Mead in his weekly column for The Wall Street Journal. While Germany and France have issued apologies for their involvement in genocides in Namibia and Rwanda respectively, China's systemic oppression of the Uyghurs in Xinjiang, worsening circumstances for the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the ethnic cleansing of the Tigrayan people in Ethiopia suggest that the post-Cold War vision of a morally and politically unified world order is far from materializing.

China Treats India's COVID Crisis as an Opportunity for Regional Influence

A health worker next to oxygen cylinders taking information from a COVID-19 coronavirus positive person, inside the ambulance, at MMC hospital in Guwahati, Assam, India on May 25, 2021. (Photo by David Talukdar/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak in India has caused not only a humanitarian and economic disaster, but has also impacted strategic allegiances in South Asia, Husain Haqqani and Aparna Pande contend in The Print. As India's infrastructure struggled to keep up with rising infections, China seized the opportunity to expand its influence by providing vaccines and loan assistance to the region. 

Getting the Big Banks To Confront The Quantum Challenge

The New York Stock Exchange stands in lower Manhattan on April 15, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

America’s big banks should form a Quantum Task Force to protect the country’s financial industry against future cyberattacks, argues Arthur Herman in Forbes. The recent attack on the Colonial Pipeline highlighted the U.S. infrastructure’s vulnerability to cyber threats. Only the American finance industry has both the resources and the self-interest needed to lead the charge on investing in security fit for the post-quantum era.

Counterbalance Ep. 13 | Rich Outzen on The Return of Geopolitics

On the most recent episode of "Counterbalance," Rich Outzen, career military officer and senior State Department advisor on the Middle East, sat down with hosts Mike Doran and Marshall Kosloff to discuss the challenge that geopolitics in a multipolar world poses to the United States.

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Join Hudson Institute Adjunct Fellow Joshua S. Block, nuclear weapons experts David Albright and Sarah Burkhard and CIA veteran Norman Roule today at 12:00pm EDT for a discussion on prospects for Iranian nuclear proliferation amid attempts to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In their new book, “Iran’s Perilous Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons,” David Albright and Sarah Burkhard reveal new details about Iran’s nuclear weapons program from the “Atomic Archive” discovered by Israel, and weigh in on the implications of their findings for the revival of nuclear negotiations in this timely discussion at Hudson Institute.