The Costly Contradictions of Biden's Crusade for Green Energy

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to guests during a visit to POET Bioprocessing on April 12, 2022 in Menlo, Iowa. (Getty Images)

President Biden’s energy plan is an all-of-government assault on the domestic fossil-fuel industry to further a green agenda undermining the domestic energy industry and compromising U.S. foreign policy goals, writes Thomas J. Duesterberg in The Wall Street Journal. A pragmatic understanding of the overall costs and benefits of the transition to a green economy at a time of war and economic challenges would lead to a more coherent policy. 

China and Economic Security in the Shadow of Ukraine

Soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army march on Red Square during a military parade in Moscow on June 24, 2020. (Getty Images)

As Russia wages war on Ukraine, another threat to the United States looms larger: the People’s Republic of China. China maliciously threatens the United States in geostrategic reach, economic power, and technological advancement. As we have learned from Ronald Reagan’s actions in the collapse of the Soviet Union, the time for unison and action is now, and there can be no delay, writes Michael R. Pompeo in National Interest. 

Virtual Event | The Ambassadors Series: A Conversation with Swedish Ambassador Karin Olofsdotter

Finnish and Swedish ambassadors to NATO simultaneously handed in their official letters of application to join NATO on May 18, 2022. (Photo credit NATO)

Join Hudson Institute today at noon for a conversation with the Swedish Ambassador to the United States Karin Olofsdotter and Senior Fellow Michael Doran. They discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its effect on European security, Sweden’s pursuit of NATO membership, Stockholm’s military priorities, and the future of Northern European security.

(Mis)Understanding Nukes

Ousted Pakistan's prime minister Imran Khan leads a rally in Islamabad on May 26, 2022. (Getty Images)

The U.S. government projects that over the next decade nuclear threats will only grow in number, with China expected to quadruple its current force and Russia relying more on its non-strategic nuclear warheads. Despite claims that reducing the size and scope of the U.S. nuclear arsenal will generate a deterrence, it is likely that such implementation would kill more civilians, warns Rebeccah L. Heinrichs and Matthew Costlow in The Dispatch.

Indonesia Tunes Out the U.S.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks at the Shangri-La Dialogue summit in Singapore on June 11, 2022. (Getty Images)

America’s problems in Indonesia are a credibility issue: Indonesians do not think American policy makers take them seriously while China rolls out the red carpet, writes, Walter Russell Mead in The Wall Street Journal. A real pivot to Asia would require American policy makers to elevate the interests and concerns of Asian partners over those of longstanding allies in Europe, which many Indonesians don’t think that has happened yet.