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UN-Brokered Deal on Allowing Ukrainian Food to be Exported Has to Continue
Agricultural workers harvest a wheat field on June 26, 2022, outside of Odesa, Ukraine. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images)
Forty-seven million people face “acute hunger” because of the food shortage caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the United Nations World Food Programme. To prevent further hunger and global instability, countries suffering from food shortages should pressure Russia to honor its side of the agreement that allows Ukraine to export grain, writes Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey [[link removed]] in Arab News [[link removed]].
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From Global Pandemic to Pandemonium
A house burns after being shelled during an artillery duel between Ukrainian and Russian troops in the city of Lysychansk, Ukraine, on June 11, 2022. (Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
During both the pandemic in 2020 and the global crises in 2022, countries have responded based upon their national interests and not their respect for global values. Yet the Biden administration still assumes that common interests and global goals will motivate foreign actors more than American power would, writes Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] in The Wall Street Journal [[link removed]].
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Tariffs on China Are No Panacea
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The White House should examine what current tariffs on Chinese imports have achieved before creating new ones, argues Deputy Director of the Hudson Institute Japan Chair Riley Walters [[link removed]] in The Hill [[link removed]]. Eliminating only a few tariffs will not reduce inflation much, and current tariffs failed to convince Beijing to live up to its commitments. Walters makes the case that the Biden administration should reconsider tariffs as a tool, eliminate existing ones, and find a new approach to China.
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Prepare Ukraine for Victory in a Long War
Ukrainian artillerymen check their weapons and special equipment before going to the frontline in Kherson, Ukraine, on July 15, 2022. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
The war in Ukraine has long-term implications for the transatlantic community and other parts of the world, including Taiwan and the Middle East and North Africa, argues Luke Coffey [[link removed]] in his policy memo [[link removed]]. He also outlines nine policy recommendations for how the US can further support Ukraine.
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Investigating COVID-19 Origins: A Conversation with Senator Roger Marshall
A medical staff member gestures inside an isolation ward at Red Cross Hospital in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on March 10, 2020. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Please join Hudson Senior Fellow David Asher [[link removed]] for a conversation [[link removed]] with US Senator Roger Marshall. Sen. Marshall has prioritized investigating the pandemic’s origins and the implications of gain-of-function virological research.
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BEFORE YOU GO...
Please join Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] and Hudson Senior Fellow Michael Doran [[link removed]] for a discussion [[link removed]] on Mead’s recently released book on the history of US-Israel relations, The Arc of a Covenant. They will discuss the themes of the book, the current trajectory of US foreign policy in the Middle East, and the future of US grand strategy.
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