Section: Hoover Institution (USA)
The Hoover Institution Briefing On National Security | August 2024
Welcome to the Hoover Institution’s briefing on national security. In this issue we are looking at the importance of public and private funding of quantum computing in a technological race with China and Russia; a change in the established military doctrine; Narendra Modi’s third term at the helm of Indian politics—but with coalition...
Issues in Negotiations: Looking Toward an End to the War in Ukraine
America’s current policy goal with the Russian war on Ukraine might be articulated as helping to achieve the best possible position for Ukraine to end the fighting through a settlement. This essay considers the difficult and complicated issues that would be involved in such negotiations. Importantly, to be successful, diplomacy would have...
Articles On: Hong Kong, Propaganda, Ukraine, Censorship, Military Power, Arrest, Data Security, Chinese Stock, Secret Commodity Stockpile, Supercomputers, and Tilting Economy
Articles that illuminate the lack of personal freedom and political liberty under the Chinese Communist Party. …read more Source:: Hoover...
The Right Way To Quickly End The War In Ukraine
The United States has hit a wall in Ukraine. President Joe Biden’s incrementalist approach is not working. Instead, it has led to a long and tragic war of attrition. Ukraine’s faltering performance in the past year has raised the grim prospect of a Russian victory, which would see Kyiv fall under Moscow’s imperial dominion....
Cultural Genocide
As Russian president Vladimir Putin pursues his bloody campaign to re-subjugate Ukraine, we measure success in territory gained or lost. But for Putin, seizing land is an enabler as he pursues deeper goals—not least among them the annihilation of Ukrainian culture. …read more Source:: Hoover...
Russia Crushes Dissent As Putin’s System Ramps Up Repression
Already shrinking before the Ukraine war, the space for dissent and freedom of expression has all but vanished in Russia. The latest sign came on Friday with the wrongful conviction of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich of spying following a hurried closed-door trial that the US government has condemned as a sham. …read more...
Politics Versus Policy At The NATO Summit In Washington Last Week
Biden got the political win by demonstrating his leadership of the free world; Zelenskyy got the policy win of “irreversible” into the communique about Ukraine’s path to NATO membership. …read more Source:: Hoover...
High-Tech American Weapons Work Against Russia—Until They Don’t
Moscow is learning how to defeat Western precision munitions in Ukraine. Those lessons will be shared to Beijing. …read more Source:: Hoover...
Chinese troops hold military exercises with Belarus on Polish border
Chinese military personnel are to begin joint “anti-terrorist training” with their counterparts in Belarus on Monday, close to the border with Poland. The “Eagle Assault” exercises by the two Russian allies amid the war in Ukraine will be held over 11 days in the border city of Brest, Belarus, and will involve tasks such as hostage rescue and...
Michael McFaul: At NATO Summit, ‘Everybody Is Talking About Our Elections’
Hoover Institution fellow Michael McFaul discusses Ukraine’s path to NATO membership and what a second Trump presidency could mean for the Russia-Ukraine war. …read more Source:: Hoover...
