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With tensions between the United States and China on the rise, Washington needs to be able to produce its most important defense capabilities without having to ask permission from Beijing, warns Nadia Schadlow in The Washington Post.
If President Donald Trump wishes to achieve his campaign promise of peace in Ukraine, he needs to weaken Russian President Vladimir Putin and negotiate from a position of strength. Daniel Kochis explains how in Politico.
China’s growing economic and technological entanglements are putting longstanding US alliances to the test in the Middle East. Tomorrow, Hudson will host an all-day conference featuring Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and leading national security experts to discuss how the US should respond.
Peter Rough explained on a BBC Sounds podcast that Russia is the main obstacle to peace in Ukraine—and that a Trump-Putin meeting might be the next step in negotiations.
In his new book Preventing a US-China War, Masashi Murano interviews national security experts like Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster and Under Secretary of Defense Elbridge Colby to give an inside look at the deterrence landscape in the Indo-Pacific as China prepares for war. Murano sat down with Iku Tsujihiro to discuss the book’s findings.
Before you go . . .
As the United States and China square off in the most consequential trade war in nearly a century, many critics hope Trump will stand down on his tariff plans amid rising pressure. But Beijing is more vulnerable than it appears, argues Thomas Duesterberg in a New York Post op-ed.
In a 2024 Hudson report, Duesterberg and Alexander Aibel expand on this analysis, explaining that high debt, shrinking revenues, declining birthrates, falling marriage rates, and aging populations have damaged the Chinese people’s trust in their government.
