Tokyo Lobs the Ball Back at Beijing

Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi attends a press conference at the prime minister's office on September 16, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)

Japan’s Jun Mizutani and Mima Ito shocked reigning champion China by winning the gold medal in mixed doubles table tennis Monday during the summer Olympic Games. But Tokyo’s increasingly aggressive pushback against Chinese pressure on Taiwan is causing more heartburn in Beijing than lost Olympic glory, writes Hudson Institute’s Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal. Perhaps table tennis is not the only arena in which China’s drive for dominance is encountering an unexpectedly effective Japanese response?

🎙Making a Killing | Ep.13: Olympics  Special, Travis Tygart on Corruption and Doping in Sports

With the Olympic Games in full swing, Paul Massaro catches up with Travis Tygart, chief executive of the U.S. Antidoping Agency, to discuss the growing problem of corruption in international sports. Listen to Hudson Institute's Paul Massaro and Nate Sibley discuss this timely issue in the latest episode of Making a Killing, a podcast exploring how corruption is reshaping global politics and fueling some of the deadliest security threats facing the world today.

Virtual Event | Implementing a New Maritime Strategy

US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Gravely and Turkish TCG Gokova warship in Gdynia, Poland on 19 April 2019 (Michal Fludra/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Join Hudson Institute Senior Fellow & Director for Center for Defense Concepts and Technology Bryan Clark for a discussion with Congresswoman Elaine Luria (D-VA) on U.S. maritime strategy, the U.S. Navy’s future, and the challenges of deterring China. Congress is considering the Biden Administration’s first defense budget, which would shrink the U.S. fleet to prioritize current readiness, future research, and systems development within a lower overall budget than in preceding years. Please join Congresswoman Luria and Bryan Clark as they discuss alternative strategies the Navy could pursue to continue deterring China and their implications for programs, budgets, and operations.

China's Gambit for Total Information Dominance: A US-Australia Response

A visitor uses her phone at the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing. (Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)

Digitized information is allowing the Chinese Communist Party to blur the lines between domestic and foreign policy; civilian and military power; fact and fiction. In a new report from Hudson’s Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin assesses China’s comprehensive approach to information power and its implications for the U.S.-Australia alliance. Read the report to learn how a coordinated allied response can level the playing field against China’s whole-of-society information gathering tactics.

Pakistan's Pyrrhic Victory in Afghanistan

Afghan security personnel stand guard along the road amid ongoing fight between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters in Kandahar on July 9, 2021 (JAVED TANVEER/AFP via Getty Images)

Pakistan’s security establishment is cheering the Taliban’s recent military gains in Afghanistan, writes Hudson Institute’s Husain Haqqani in Foreign Affairs. Pakistan has long veiled its ambitions in Afghanistan to maintain relations with Washington, but that balancing act will prove impossible in the event that a reconstituted Islamic emirate is established in Kabul. This would not be the vindication that Pakistan’s military is expecting: the Taliban are less likely to defer to Pakistan in their moment of triumph, and the Americans are not likely to reconcile with the group over the long term.

BEFORE YOU GO...

Is Thailand being overlooked by the Biden administration? Watch this discussion with Hudson Institute Walter P. Stern Distinguished Fellow Kenneth Weinstein and former U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Michael George DeSombre on Thailand’s role in the U.S. global alliance system and in the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy.