Learning the Right Lessons from China's Hypersonic Missile Test

Military vehicles carrying DF-100 ground-based land-attack missiles participate in a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Getty Images)

Recent reports that China tested nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles last summer fit in with the overall pattern of Chinese nuclear weapons expansion. Now that our defense establishment has had a chance to absorb the implications of this troubling news, it is crucial that the U.S. learn the right lessons from these tests, writes Rebeccah Heinrichs in Newsweek. Most importantly, the U.S. must take steps to improve our strategic posture in order to strengthen deterrence and complicate China’s future calculations.

Virtual Event | Book Talk: What Really Happened in Wuhan

Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of COVID-19 arrive at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. (Getty Images)

On Thursday, November 4, Hudson Institute Senior Fellow David Asher will be joined by award-winning journalist Sharri Markson for a conversation on her best-selling new book, “What Really Happened in Wuhan.”

Nearly two years after the world first became aware of the existence of a novel coronavirus spreading in Wuhan, China, the origins of COVID-19 remain shrouded in mystery. Markson's investigation delves into never-before-seen primary documents exposing China’s concealment of the virus, fresh interviews with whistleblower doctors in Wuhan, and eyewitness accounts that dismantle official explanations for the initial outbreak. 

The US and EU Shake Up Global Trade

U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission at the COP26 summit on November 02, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Getty Images)

The most important news out of Rome had nothing to do with the G-20. The temporary trade deal announced by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President Biden lays out a new approach to world trade that, if it takes hold, could usher in the most consequential changes to the international trade regime in half a century or more, writes Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal. The Rome summit indicated that the big issues that some hope will unite humanity—climate change and globalization—are increasingly dividing it, while the gap separating China and Russia from the West continues to widen.

Virtual Event | What's Next for AUKUS? A Discussion with Australian Ambassador Sinodinos

As threats in the Indo-Pacific continue to grow, the United States has sought to strengthen relationships with key allies in the region to bolster democracy and ensure peace and security. AUKUS, the new Australian, UK, and U.S. trilateral security agreement, enables the three powers to cooperate on a range of technologies crucial to national security, such as providing Australia with nuclear-powered submarines and long-range strike weapons. Australian Ambassador Arthur Sinodinos AO will join Hudson President and CEO John Walters to discuss the challenges facing Australia and the United States in the Indo-Pacific, the significance of the AUKUS agreement, and opportunities for the U.S. and Australia to further deepen cooperation.

Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

Muslims perform Eid al-Adha morning prayers at Sultan Hassan Mosque. (Getty Images)

Check out the latest issue of Current Trends in Islamist Ideology. This Hudson publication features articles on subjects ranging from Islamists in Libya to the influence of Hezbollah in West Africa. Founded in 2005, Current Trends promotes discussions on the global Islamist movement and the search for religious and political alternatives to political Islam within the Muslim world. It is edited by Hillel Fradkin, Husain Haqqani, James Barnett, and Eric Brown.