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	In the News May 17, 2021 Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities MIT News An MIT-led workshop connecting young leaders in the US and Sudan received hundreds of applications from high school and college students eager to take part. Members of the ZAHARA for Education group selected their first cohort of 50 students.
	In the News May 17, 2021 Global Languages announces new HASS concentration in Korean MIT News Students at MIT will now be able to take their Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences concentration in Korean. The new concentration extends the options for Asian languages at MIT, which also include Japanese and Mandarin.
	In the News May 10, 2021 Study reveals mixed reactions about Covid-19 health disparities Peter DizikesMIT News The Covid-19 pandemic, like many other health crises, has had unequal effects on the US population, with communities of color often hit the hardest. A new study co-authored by Evan Lieberman identifies a related challenge: Different social groups have different reactions to the fact that Covid-19 has generated those health inequities.
	News@E40 May 5, 2021 MISTI alumnus Grace Moore ’21 receives prestigious scholarship to Sciences Po
	In the News May 4, 2021 India-China border row: India continues to upgrade border infrastructure as Chinese PLA looks to pre-empt India Eurasian Press DeskThe Eurasian Times Taylor Fravel cited and quoted: Taylor Fravel, professor of International Relations at MIT and author of two major books on China’s territorial disputes and its military strategy, “The simplest explanation perhaps is that China is responding to India’s efforts to bolster border-area infrastructure in Ladakh after the completion of the Darbuk-Shyok-DBO (DSDBO) road.
	In the News May 2, 2021 Four pivots Joe Biden should make with Russia Bonnie KristianNational Interest Quoted: Vital interests affect the safety, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and power position of the United States, as MIT’s Barry Posen has explained. If, in a worst-case scenario, all of Ukraine were to “fall” to Russia, then it would have little impact on the security of the United States.
	In the News May 1, 2021 Is the US-Japan alliance still the ‘cornerstone’ of stability in Asia? Quoted: Richard Samuels and Eric Heginbotham observe that “[t]he overwhelming bulk of Japan’s defense budget remains committed to capabilities consistent with a forward defense strategy.” These are maneuver forces with inherently offensive characteristics.
	In the News April 30, 2021 Remembering Yukio Okamoto A tribute to Yukio Okamoto, a Japanese diplomat who also served as both a Robert E Wilhelm Fellow and a research fellow at CIS. This month marks the first anniversary of his death. JICAChannel02 & Okamoto Associates, Inc. (OAI) sponsored the symposium.
	In the News April 30, 2021 Biden’s new North Korea policy is an extended hand to Kim Jong Un Alex WardVox Quoted: “It’s the right formulation to use because both sides agreed to it,” said Vipin Narang, an expert on North Korea’s nuclear program at MIT.
	Analysis + Opinion April 29, 2021 How not to win allies and influence geopolitics Audrye Wong's essay in the May/June 2021 issue of Foreign Affairs describes China's self-defeating economic statecraft. Wong is a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program.