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	In the News June 16, 2020 India-China clash: An extraordinary escalation 'with rocks and clubs' Soutik BiswasBBC News Vipin Narang quoted: "It is looking bad, very bad," says security analyst Vipin Narang, of the deadly clash between Indian and Chinese soldiers in Ladakh on Monday night. The most serious face-off on the world's longest unsettled land border in nearly half a century left 20 Indian soldiers dead. India says both sides suffered casualties. "Once fatalities are sustained, keeping everything quiet becomes hard on both sides. Now public pressure becomes a variable," Dr Narang, a security studies professor at MIT, told me. "The scale, scope and swathe of the pressure across the border is seemingly unprecedented."
	In the News June 16, 2020 North Korea blows up joint liaison office with South Robin YoungWBUR Here & Now North Korea blew up an inter-Korean liaison office building just north of the heavily armed border with South Korea on Tuesday. The dramatic display of anger sharply raises tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and puts pressure on Washington and Seoul amid deadlocked nuclear diplomacy. Host Robin Young speaks with security analyst Jim Walsh about the implications.
	In the News June 12, 2020 Russia, China and the US: Who has the best Middle East policy? Dale SprusanskyWashington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2020, pp 58-59 The Middle East Institute held an online discussion with two renowned scholars of international affairs on April 16 to assess the role of the US, China and Russia in the Middle East, which included SSP's Barry Posen. Here is a recap with some highlights and quotes from the event.
	In the News June 12, 2020 Two years after Trump-Kim meeting, little to show for personal diplomacy David E Sanger and Choe Sang-HunThe New York Times Vipin Narang quoted: “Trump has told himself this was a win, and so has Kim,” said Vipin Narang. “Trump keeps repeating, ‘There wasn’t a war.’” “For Kim Jong-un it was also a win because he is able to take the air out of the maximum pressure campaign” to crush the country economically, he said, “while he is still expanding his missile and nuclear force.”
	Analysis + Opinion June 9, 2020 Tension high, altitude higher: Logistical and physiological constraints on the Indo-Chinese border Aidan MilliffWar on the Rocks Are India and China on the path to war in the Himalayas? Or will recent tensions over their disputed border fade into history like dozens of other standoffs that were resolved diplomatically? Aidan Milliff explores the issues in a recent War on the Rocks essay.
	In the News June 5, 2020 Fingers, boots, and lines: Understanding the 2020 India-China border tensions Ankit PandaThe Diplomat The Diplomat’s Asia Geopolitics podcast host Ankit Panda speaks to M Taylor Fravel, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science and Director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about the ongoing India-China tensions along the Line of Actual Control.
	In the News June 5, 2020 Pan-India News 18 poll on India-China standoff: Here’s what it means according to experts Parikshit LuthraCNBC-TV18 CNBC-TV18’s Parikshit Luthra is joined by M Taylor Fravel, director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Kanwal Sibal, former secretary, and Jayant Dasgupta, former Indian ambassador to WTO, to discuss about India-China relations and border skirmishes.
	In the News June 4, 2020 Mattis calls out clearing protesters outside White House 'abuse of executive authority' Jeremy HobsonWBUR Here & Now Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis has called the decision to clear peaceful protesters from outside the White House this week an "abuse of executive authority." Host Jeremy Hobson speaks with security analyst Jim Walsh about the incident.
	Analysis + Opinion June 2, 2020 Integrating emerging technology in multinational military operations: The case of artificial intelligence Erik Lin-GreenbergTexas National Security Review Last fall, Perry World House hosted a two-day colloquium titled "How Emerging Technologies Are Rewiring the Global Order." The essays in this roundtable emerged from a panel on how emerging technologies like AI are changing international politics. Featured here is one of the essays by Erik Lin-Greenberg, who joins MIT this fall as an assistant professor of political science at MIT.
	In the News June 2, 2020 Philippines backs off threat to terminate military pact with US Jason GutierrezThe New York Times M Taylor Fravel quoted: “In light of China’s continued assertion of its historic rights in Vietnamese and Malaysian waters over the last year, Manila may have concluded that its previous rapprochement with Beijing would not protect Philippine interests,” said M Taylor Fravel, a political-science professor who is director of the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.