Addressing Threats to Digital Rights in Hong Kong

November 2024

Past Event

Addressing Threats to Digital Rights in Hong Kong

Past Event

Hudson Institute

November 13, 2024

An electronics shop employee in Hong Kong on October 18, 2017, looks at television sets showing a news report on China's President Xi Jinping's speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)

November 2024

Past Event

Speakers:

Ambassador Derek Mitchell

Senior Advisor, Office of the President, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Anouk Wear

Research and Policy Advisor (USA), Hong Kong Watch

Yaqiu Wang

Research Director for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, Freedom House

Joey Siu

Hong Kong Activist

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Hudson Institute is pleased to host the launch of Hong Kong Watch’s latest report, Invisible Decline: Violations of Digital Rights in Hong Kong and Their Impact. In the report, Anouk Wear examines how digital rights in Hong Kong have declined amid the Chinese government’s crackdown and what the United States and the international community can do to defend freedom in Hong Kong. Join Hudson for an expert panel event that will discuss the report and its implications.

December 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Crowding in Capital: Modernizing the Department of War’s Financial Arsenal

Featured Speakers:

Rick Berger

Rush Doshi

Katie Magnus

David Rader

Moderator:

Nadia Schadlow

December 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Crowding in Capital: Modernizing the Department of War’s Financial Arsenal

Join Senior Fellow Nadia Schadlow and an expert panel for a discussion on the DoW’s financial tools, the extent of the department’s authorities, and the role it will play in the broader American reindustrialization effort.

Featured Speakers:

Rick Berger

Rush Doshi

Katie Magnus

David Rader

Moderator:

Nadia Schadlow

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December 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Building US-Taiwan Defense Supply Chain Collaboration: Opportunities for Codevelopment and Coproduction

Featured Speakers:

Admiral Lee Hsi-Min

Betsy Shieh

Brandon Tseng

Rupert Hammond-Chambers

Moderator:

Jason Hsu

December 2025

In-Person Event | Hudson Institute

Building US-Taiwan Defense Supply Chain Collaboration: Opportunities for Codevelopment and Coproduction

Join Hudson for a discussion with senior defense, industry, and policy leaders on how the US and Taiwan can advance collaborative models for codevelopment, coproduction, and supply chain integration.

Featured Speakers:

Admiral Lee Hsi-Min

Betsy Shieh

Brandon Tseng

Rupert Hammond-Chambers

Moderator:

Jason Hsu

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December 2025

In-Person Event | Invite Only

Antisemitism as a National Security Threat

Featured Speakers:

Michael Doran

Michael Sobolik

Sebastian Gorka

Walter Russell Mead

John P. Walters

Park MacDougald

Scott Jennings

Congressman Brian Mast

Judd Rosenblatt

Derek Harvey

Matt Spalding

Cole Bunzel

Amb. Deborah Lipstadt

Moderators:

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Liel Leibovitz

Aaron MacLean

December 2025

In-Person Event | Invite Only

Antisemitism as a National Security Threat

Hudson’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East will convene policymakers, experts, and private sector leaders to examine how antisemitism, both foreign and domestic, threatens American security and Western civilization.

Featured Speakers:

Michael Doran

Michael Sobolik

Sebastian Gorka

Walter Russell Mead

John P. Walters

Park MacDougald

Scott Jennings

Congressman Brian Mast

Judd Rosenblatt

Derek Harvey

Matt Spalding

Cole Bunzel

Amb. Deborah Lipstadt

Moderators:

Rebeccah L. Heinrichs

Liel Leibovitz

Aaron MacLean

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December 2025

Past Event

Authoritarians in the Academy: How Adversaries Infiltrate Higher Education to Threaten Free Speech and National Security

Featured Speakers:

Sarah McLaughlin

Michael Sobolik

December 2025

Past Event

Authoritarians in the Academy: How Adversaries Infiltrate Higher Education to Threaten Free Speech and National Security

Join Senior Fellow Michael Sobolik for a conversation with Sarah McLaughlin, a senior scholar at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, about her recent book on this subject, Authoritarians in the Academy.