The US Has to Defeat Mexico’s Drug Cartels

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Near the US-Mexico border this past week, four Americans were kidnapped, and two of them were found dead. Mexican drug cartels are believed to be responsible. Meanwhile, in the past year overdose deaths in the United States have surpassed 100,000. In the Wall Street Journal, Hudson Distinguished Fellow William P. Barr writes that the US should respond to the crisis by treating the cartels like terrorist groups.

The Two Sessions, and the House Select Committee on China’s First Hearing

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In this episode of China Insider, Hudson China Center Director Miles Yu and Media Fellow Wilson Shirley discuss what to make of China’s Two Sessions meetings and how the House select committee on China is building on bipartisan consensus to address the most serious threat the US has faced in decades. 

The US Needs to Put in the Legwork to Build Ties with Central Asia

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The “C5” nations of Central Asia are crucial to America’s geopolitical interests in Europe and Asia. Secretary Antony Blinken’s long-overdue visit to the region is a good start, but the US needs a more comprehensive strategy, writes Senior Fellow Luke Coffey in Arab News.

How China Weaponized COVID-19

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Senior Fellow David Asher appeared on The Story with Martha MacCallum to explain how Anthony Fauci fell into a Chinese conspiracy on the origins of COVID-19 and how China weaponized the virus.

How US Ambassador Tom Nides Became Israel’s Arsonist-in-Chief

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In Tablet, Hudson Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East Director Michael Doran explains that, with Iran closer than ever to achieving a nuclear capability, the Biden administration should cooperate with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—rather than tacitly encouraging the Israeli opposition to bring him down.

BEFORE YOU GO...

Today at 12:00 p.m., join Hudson Distinguished Fellow Walter Russell Mead for a live discussion with Washington Post columnist Robert Kagan on the perils of American withdrawal from the world and the price of international responsibility.