How We Can Help Europe Fight Back against Putin’s Gas Warfare

Natural gas is flared off during an oil drilling operation in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022, in Stanton, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

America can no longer afford to fight Putin's energy tyranny with one hand tied behind its back. Hudson Senior Fellow Brigham McCown explains in the New York Post why the US needs to use every resource at its disposal to weaken Putin's main source of leverage over the West.

No Deal with Iran Is Better than a Bad Deal

Iranian demonstrators burn an effigy of President Joe Biden in downtown Tehran during a rally commemorating the International Quds Day on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Hudson Senior Fellow Luke Coffey argues in Arab News that the original Iran nuclear deal was a foreign policy disaster, so Biden should simply walk away from the table now that he holds even weaker cards than the US did the first time around.

How China Wages an Unseen War for Strategic Influence

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From the Chinese perspective, war with the US is not coming; it is already here. In an interview with the Financial Times, Hudson Senior Fellow John Lee explains the political and economic warfare that the CCP has been engaged in for decades.

Understanding and Countering China's Approach to Economic Decoupling from the United States

Stewards of China Railway Kunming Bureau Group in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China, on June 2, 2022. A landmark project under the Belt and Road Initiative, the railway connects Kunming with Vientiane, Laos. (Photo by Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Many experts have highlighted American efforts to partially decouple from China, but Beijing began pursuing a far more ambitious and comprehensive decoupling strategy long before Donald Trump entered the White House. In a new report, Senior Fellow John Lee lays out how the US can capitalize on its present advantages to win the split. 

The Causes and Consequences of War: A Conversation with Professor Hew Strachan

Napoleon Bonaparte flees the pursuing allied troops after he is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo during the Napoleonic War of the Seventh Coalition on 18th June 1815 at Waterloo, Belgium. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Since 9/11, the US has repeatedly found itself embroiled in brutal, protracted conflict when swift victory seemed almost certain. Sir Hew Strachan, the Wardlaw Professor of International Relations at the University of St. Andrews, and American University Distinguished Professor Audrey Kurth Cronin will discuss whether this trend calls for a more critical examination of the links between the causes and consequences of war. Hudson Asia-Pacific Security Chair Dr. Patrick M. Cronin will moderate the discussion.

BEFORE YOU GO...

The root cause of the American fentanyl epidemic is not a complicated mix of abstract societal factors but Chinese kingpins—assisted by Mexican cartels—who turn chemicals into cash at the expense of 100,000 dead Americans, writes Hudson Senior Fellow David Asher in the New York Post.