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The new Chinese foreign minister’s first foreign trip was to Angola, where he offered a package to build high-speed telecommunications infrastructure, which Huawei will most likely construct. The history of Chinese aid to Angola is rife with corrupting effects involving billions of dollars in diverted oil sector funds and implicating the highest levels of government.
Join Hudson Institute and International Republican Institute experts in welcoming award-winning Angolan investigative journalist Rafael Marques as he presents new information about the malign influence of Chinese aid. They will also discuss the broader impact of Chinese efforts to win allies and gain an economic advantage in Africa.
Open-border policies have invited a once-in-a-generation humanitarian crisis at the US southern border. The number of monthly encounters between US Border Patrol agents and migrants attempting to cross is at a record high. Transnational drug cartels continue to bring illicit drugs like fentanyl from Mexico to the United States, exacerbating the American opioid epidemic. What can and should policymakers do to end this humanitarian crisis, stop the flow of drugs, and restore the rule of law at our southern border?
Please join Hudson Distinguished Fellow and former US Attorney General Bill Barr and Hudson Media Fellow Jeremy Hunt for a discussion on the way out of this crisis.
Please join Peter Rough, Hudson Institue senior fellow and director of the Center on Europe and Eurasia, for a discussion with Žygimantas Pavilionis, Radoslaw Fogiel, and Oleksandr Merezhko, chairs of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committees of Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine, respectively. The three chairmen will provide an update on how their countries are coping with the war in Ukraine, the scope and level of coordination within the Lublin Triangle, and what they anticipate for the year to come.
Dr. Eyal Hulata served as the national security advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid. Israel starts 2023 with a prime minister who is both new and old, a new army chief of staff, and a long list of old and new national security challenges. Dr. Hulata joins us to share insights gleaned from his time in office and his sense of the major decisions his successor will face in the coming year.
Several weeks ago, the new Israeli justice minister, Yariv Levin, announced plans to reform the country’s judicial system by curtailing the very broad power of Israel’s judiciary to appoint judges, nullify laws, and otherwise regulate public life. In the view of its supporters, the reform will revitalize democracy. “We go to the polls, vote, elect, and time after time, people we didn’t elect choose for us,” Levin claimed. “Many sectors of the public look to the judicial system and do not find their voices heard. That is not democracy.” Levin’s critics have the exact opposite view. In their eyes, judicial reform is anti-democratic.
More than 100,000 demonstrators gathered recently in Habima Square in Tel Aviv to protest Levin’s plan. Many thousands more rallied in other cities throughout the country. “Now is the hour of darkness,” author David Grossman told the crowd. To help us better understand what’s going on, we have invited Gadi Taub—an Israeli historian, author, and prominent supporter of the reform—to walk us through the debate.
In ten years, Chinese ownership of US farmland has jumped from $81 million in 2010 to $1.8 billion in 2020. What does it mean for American food security when foreign adversaries expand their footprint in the US agriculture industry? What can Congress do to protect Americans from both a food and national security crisis?
Please join Congressman Austin Scott (R-GA) and Hudson Media Fellow Jeremy Hunt as they discuss this important issue.
Join Hudson Institute and Center for American Progress for an address by Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen followed by a discussion with Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office Representative Bi-khim Hsiao, Hudson Senior Fellow Seth Cropsey, and Center for American Progress Vice President Kelly Magsamen.
Join Hudson Institute hosted a discussion with former Under Secretary of Defense Michèle Flournoy and Hudson Senior Fellow Rebeccah Heinrichs on America’s role in the world amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hudson Institute will host U.S. Senator Rick Scott for a discussion on the great-power competition between the United States and China. The discussion will focus on what the U.S. can continue to do to expose the corruption and disinformation campaign of the Chinese Communist Party, its abuses of human rights in China, and how the U.S. can position itself to remain the world’s most reliable and trustworthy ally.
As ideological fault lines in the United States continue to shift, supporters of socialist policies have grown louder and more emboldened by far-Left politicians. Ambassador Haley delivered remarks on why capitalism remains the best economic system ever created, followed by a conversation with Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Peter Rough.
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