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Seth Cropsey
President, Yorktown Institute
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China will likely launch its third aircraft carrier later this year, and its sister ship is not far behind. The Chinese navy now has more ships than t
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Join us for a discussion on the future of ant
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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.
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**In accordance with U.S. government travel advisories aimed at preventing the spread of coronavirus in the United States, Hudson Institute asks that
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Throughout 2019, China continued to conduct coercive and dangerous maritime activities in the South China Sea to intimidate and impose costs on its sm
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Hudson Institute will host a discussion on U.S. policy towards the Mediterranean and possible threats to American interests in the region.
As Turkey,
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Experts discuss advanced laser applications
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Rep. Mike Gallagher, Seth Cropsey, RADM James Stark, and Bryan Clark discuss the U.S. Navy, readiness, and national security.
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Seth Cropsey, Richard Fisher, Paul Giarra, Jun Isomura, and Kanji Ishimaru on growing threats from a rising China and a bellicose North Korea.
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Seth Cropsey, Craig Hooper, Stephen Bryen, and Michael Mazza on the U.S.-Taiwan security alliance and the PRC’s naval threats in the western Pacific
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Seth Cropsey, George Ciamba, Ben-Oni Ardelean, Laurentiu Pachiu, and Cosmin Ionita on NATO and tensions in the Black Sea
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Seth Cropsey, Rear Admiral Thomas Brown (USN, ret.), Bryan Clark, and Martin Murphy discuss asymmetrical warfare and its advantages for Taiwan.
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Adm. Ami Ayalon, Adm. Shaul Chorev, Seth Cropsey, Doug Feith and Adm. Gary Roughead discuss the Commission on the Eastern Mediterranean's report.
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John-Clark Levin and Seth Cropsey discuss the ongoing maritime security threat around the African coast and the booming sector of private warships.
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Rep. Randy Forbes spoke on Hudson's Center for American Seapower's new report about the future of the aircraft carrier.
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Patrick Cronin, Paul Giarra, Michael Frodl, and Seth Cropsey discuss the escalating situation in the South China Sea and US policy options.
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B.J. Armstrong discusses his latest book, 21st Century Sims, with Seth Cropsey and Bryan McGrath of Hudson Center for American Seapower.
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Taiwan and the United States share free market systems, democratic politics, and a huge volume of trade. The two nations also have shared strategic
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The Royal Navy today is a shrinking shadow of its former self. Nineteen surface ships currently exist in the entire Royal Navy where more than three
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The discovery of massive quantities of hydrocarbons in both the Israeli and Cypriot exclusive economic zones, and the selection of the Trans Adriatic
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In __Mayday__, his vigorous new defense of American seapower, longtime Navy insider and Hudson Senior Fellow Seth Cropsey raises the alarm about the d
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Washington's proposed "pivot to Asia" faces important tests in a region vital to global economic growth, but riven by territorial disputes a
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