Hudson Institute

January 7, 2025 | Peter Doran, Matt Boyse

Trump’s Poland Problem Just Got Bigger

The Polish government’s threat to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and efforts to destroy the opposition are signs that the European nation’s leadership will be a problem for the president-elect.

May 17, 2024 | Daniel Kochis, Ivana Stradner

American conservatives love Hungary’s Orbán — but ignore his wooing of China

Excerpt Hungary’s flowering relationship with China, on full display during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s triumphant two-day visit to Budapest, is a blazing three-alarm fire. Will America...

September 21, 2023 | Michael R. Pompeo, Aaron MacLean

Why it’s important to continue our support for Ukraine

Russian victory in Ukraine would give comfort and confidence to those who hate America

February 10, 2023 | Natalie Ecanow |

Captagon: Assad’s Deadly Drug Of Choice Expands To Israel

Israel’s Ministry of Defense thwarted an attempt to smuggle thousands of captagon tablets into the Gaza Strip last week. The news was overshadowed by soaring tensions, amidst continued unrest in the...

January 13, 2023 | Richard Goldberg, Rebeccah Heinrichs

Let Ukraine Defeat the Russia-Iranian War Machine

Biden’s chronic risk aversion is prolonging the war and making it more costly

August 12, 2022 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Ivana Stradner

Time to Sanction the Kremlin’s Ministry of Truth

When media platforms obey their paymasters’ orders to become complicit in their crimes, they are no longer media.

April 20, 2022 | Nadia Schadlow, Brady Helwig

Ukraine war shows America could be outgunned without investing in energetics

Energetic materials — critical chemicals that help determine the range, size, and explosive power of missiles and rockets — are in dangerously short supply for American interests, write Nadia Schadlow and Brady Helwig of the Hudson Institute.

April 5, 2022 | Zane Zovak |

Why the IOC Doesn’t Deserve Gold for Its Olympics Campaign

While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the...

November 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Dispatches from troubled lands

They deserve attention – BHL’s self-promotion notwithstanding

September 27, 2021 | Thomas Spoehr, Bradley Bowman, Bryan Clark, Mackenzie Eaglen

What To Expect When You’re Expecting A National Defense Strategy

Excerpt In July, Rear Adm. Mike Studeman, director of intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that “it’s only a matter of time” until China resorts to military force and suggested that...

September 22, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Unfriending Pakistan

A reconsideration of the relationship is long overdue

June 6, 2021 | David Asher, Miles Yu, David Feith, Matthew Zweig, Thomas DiNanno

A Just Response to Beijing’s COVID-19 Abuses

Excerpt Nearly 18 months after word of a deadly new virus began leaking out of Wuhan, China, the Chinese government’s response remains fundamentally hostile to international cooperation and transparency....

May 10, 2021 | Michael Doran, Tony Badran

The Realignment

On Iran, Biden is finishing what Obama started. And his top advisers are all on board.

March 8, 2021 | Sharon Nazarian, Aykan Erdemir

The Middle East’s religious minorities are facing extinction. The world must act.

Pope Francis began his first-ever papal trip to Iraq on Friday, marking a watershed moment in relations between the Catholic Church and the Middle East. Yet for all the optimism of the Pope’s message,...

October 21, 2020 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Is Esper’s New Plan For The Navy Enough For The Indo-Pacific?

Recent wargames suggest the U.S. Navy would have a hard time fighting China, but this might be nothing compared to infighting Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and his successors will have to manage to build...

August 25, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Maj. Shane “Axl” Praiswater

Guam needs Aegis Ashore

American military superiority compared to China has eroded in recent years. The frequent inability of Congress and the Pentagon to provide timely capabilities for combatant commanders represents an important...

July 29, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

Was Nixon Wrong About China?

It might be time to question the conventional wisdom.

July 8, 2020 | Thomas Joscelyn |

How China Tries to Intimidate Its Dissidents Living Overseas

Explaining the CCP’s “Fox Hunt” program.

December 26, 2019 | Clifford D. May

The war against Christians

It hit a peak in the last century but it's ongoing in the Middle East, Africa and Asia

October 22, 2019 | Aykan Erdemir |

Trump can get both Turkish and Kurdish support in Syria by negotiating peace deal

President Trump’s strategy of getting out of Syria but keeping the oil continues to stir up policy debates and emotions. Opponents of the U.S. withdrawal see this as a betrayal of the Syrian Kurds,...