Plus, passing foreign aid bills in a deeply divided House, and the criminalization of abortion and surveillance of women.
| Should the United States change its policies toward Taiwan? As China ramps up its military capabilities and tensions escalate in the Taiwan Strait, there are growing concerns about the risk of conflict that could involve the United States. Given the stakes, it is critical for Americans to have a clear understanding of their top interests and objectives in the Taiwan Strait. Michael E. O’Hanlon, Ivan Kanapathy, Rorry Daniels, and Thomas Hanson debate key questions about long-standing approaches to this issue and how the United States should handle its strategy. |
| More research and commentary How a divided House passed critical foreign aid bills. On a new episode of The Current, Molly Reynolds explains the long road to getting a $95 billion foreign aid package passed in the U.S. House of Representatives and the political ramifications for Speaker Mike Johnson. The criminalization of abortion and surveillance of women. “In the post-Dobbs world, prosecutors who choose to investigate women for self-managing abortions have an array of modern surveillance technologies at their disposal,” write Jolynn Dellinger and Stephanie K. Pell. |
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