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Cardinal Zen's Arrest Is an Inflection Point for Hong Kong
Cardinal Joseph Zen speaks during an interview with AFP at the Salesian House of Studies in Hong Kong. (Getty Images)
The recent arrest of Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, signals the end of religious freedom in Hong Kong and the final phase of the Chinese Communist Party’s assault on the island’s political autonomy. Both Pope Francis and President Biden must condemn this unjust arrest and press China to respect religious freedom, Nina Shea [[link removed]] argues in National Review [[link removed]].
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What We Must Do to Help Ukraine Win
A Ukrainian soldier with an anti-aircraft missile system near Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine on May 11, 2022. (Getty Images)
American support for Ukraine’s defense has helped it withstand the brutal assault by Russia—but the administration needs to give President Volodymyr Zelensky a much bigger stick before Congress closes its checkbook, Rebeccah L. Heinrichs [[link removed]] and Bryan Clark [[link removed]] write in The Dispatch [[link removed]]. Rather than bleeding the Russian military, the U.S. goal should be to end the war quickly to stop the suffering of Ukraine's people and allow its economic recovery.
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Ukraine Embraces the 'Messy Middle' to Win the Drone War
A soldier of the Kraken Ukrainian special forces unit observes the area at a destroyed bridge north of Kharkiv, on May 16, 2022. (AFP)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine catapulted unmanned systems to the front lines of modern warfare. The Pentagon should take a lesson from Ukraine as it ponders its own unmanned system development, Bryan Clark [[link removed]] [[link removed]]and Dan Patt [[link removed]] argue in The National Interest [[link removed]].
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What Southeast Asia Wants From America
U.S. President Joe Biden and ASEAN leaders pose for a group photo on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., May 12, 2022. (Getty Images)
Southeast Asia needs access to U.S. markets and a military buildup to counter China. However, there is a fundamental mismatch between what these countries need and what, given the state of the foreign-policy debate among Democrats, President Biden can offer, writes Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] in The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]]. Unless the gap can be bridged, there is little prospect for successful American policy in a critical region.
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🎙Afghanistan and Ukraine Reveal the Absence of American Grand Strategy
With the world still reeling from the fall of Afghanistan and the invasion of Ukraine, Marshall Kosloff [[link removed]] and Rebeccah L. Heinrichs [[link removed]] discuss the link between the two monumental events, and the dangers of American weakness on the latest episode of Counterbalance [[link removed]].
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