Supporting Ukraine Helps U.S. against China

One wonders what Senator Josh Hawley and a growing chorus of Ukraine-skeptical Republicans think of the trip of Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida to Kyiv and Warsaw last week as Xi and Putin conducted their lovefest in the Kremlin.

In a recent speech, the senator dismissed as “magical thinking” by Washington’s foreign-policy “uniparty” the idea that security in Eastern Europe and in the Indo-Pacific were connected. Cut Ukraine loose, he proposes, and focus on the real challenge to the United States: China.

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Dalibor Rohac

Dalibor Rohac is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

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One wonders what Senator Josh Hawley and a growing chorus of Ukraine-skeptical Republicans think of the trip of Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida to Kyiv and Warsaw last week as Xi and Putin conducted their lovefest in the Kremlin.

In a recent speech, the senator dismissed as “magical thinking” by Washington’s foreign-policy “uniparty” the idea that security in Eastern Europe and in the Indo-Pacific were connected. Cut Ukraine loose, he proposes, and focus on the real challenge to the United States: China.