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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. In this article, he explains that as soon as the balloon drifted over ICBM silos in Montana, Joe Biden should have ordered, “Bring down that balloon.”
Chinese Balloon Fallout
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On CBS News, Hudson Japan Chair H.R. McMaster details actions the US can take to halt China’s sustained campaign of espionage in the wake of the surveillance balloon shootdown.
The Balloon Seen ’Round the World and the Boy Whose Disappearance Jolted China
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In the latest China Insider, Hudson Senior Fellow Miles Yu and Media Fellow Wilson Shirley 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.
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 and Media Fellow Jeremy Hunt 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 airing today at 12:00 p.m.
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, Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead explains why the failure to bring the Global South into the liberal-internationalist order could lead back to the “nuclear jungle.”
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 and Patrick Cronin will discuss strengthening regional security networks to enhance deterrence during this event airing tomorrow, February 9, at 10:00 a.m.
