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What Goes Up Must Come Down
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“China’s wispy denials of responsibility for the surveillance balloon are full of hot air,” writes Hudson Asia-Pacific Security Chair Patrick Cronin [[link removed]]. In this article [[link removed]], he explains that as soon as the balloon drifted over ICBM silos in Montana, Joe Biden should have ordered, “Bring down that balloon.”
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Chinese Balloon Fallout
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On CBS News [[link removed]], Hudson Japan Chair H.R. McMaster [[link removed]] details actions the US can take to halt China’s sustained campaign of espionage in the wake of the surveillance balloon shootdown.
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The Balloon Seen ’Round the World and the Boy Whose Disappearance Jolted China
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In the latest China Insider [[link removed]], Hudson Senior Fellow Miles Yu [[link removed]] and Media Fellow Wilson Shirley [[link removed]] discuss the story everyone is talking about—the “Sputnik moment” of the new cold war—and another consequential story that Western media has missed: the mysterious disappearance of a Jiangxi boy that raises questions about human trafficking, organ harvesting, and the trustworthiness of the Chinese government.
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Restoring the Rule of Law at the Southern Border: A Discussion with Former Attorney General Bill Barr
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Hudson Distinguished Fellow William P. Barr [[link removed]] and Media Fellow Jeremy Hunt [[link removed]] will discuss how policymakers can end the humanitarian crisis, stop the flow of drugs, and restore the rule of law at America’s southern border in this Hudson event [[link removed]] airing today at 12:00 p.m.
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The World Rejects the Wilsonian Order
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The reception German Chancellor Olaf Scholz received during his trip to Brazil last week is a reminder of how most people in the rest of the world want nothing to do with the West’s Wilsonian crusades. In the Wall Street Journal [[link removed]], Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead [[link removed]] explains why the failure to bring the Global South into the liberal-internationalist order could lead back to the “nuclear jungle.”
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BEFORE YOU GO...
On the heels of Secretary Lloyd Austin’s travels to the Indo-Pacific, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs Dr. Ely Rattner, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Lindsey W. Ford, and Hudson Senior Fellows Rebeccah Heinrichs [[link removed]] and Patrick Cronin [[link removed]] will discuss strengthening regional security networks to enhance deterrence during this event [[link removed]] airing tomorrow, February 9, at 10:00 a.m.
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