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 argues in National Review.

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 and Bryan Clark write in The Dispatch. 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.

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 and Dan Patt argue in The National Interest.

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 in The Wall Street Journal. Unless the gap can be bridged, there is little prospect for successful American policy in a critical region.

🎙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 and Rebeccah L. Heinrichs discuss the link between the two monumental events, and the dangers of American weakness on the latest episode of Counterbalance.