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	Analysis + Opinion July 15, 2020 America and China have hampered peace progress on the Korean peninsula Kacie MuiraThe National Interest The discordant approaches taken by South Korea, the United States, and China have hampered progress toward peace on the peninsula. Seoul’s pro-peace diplomacy has been undercut by Washington’s “maximum pressure” campaign, which in turn has been undercut by Beijing’s loosening of sanctions enforcement.
	In the News July 15, 2020 Asia greets US shift on South China Sea with hope and doubt Ken Moriyasu and Tomoya OnishiNikkei Asian Review M Taylor Fravel quoted: Given a choice, "Southeast Asian states do not want to choose between the US and China. But they also want to be able to assert their maritime claims and jurisdiction. The statement may create an expectation among other claimants that the United States may take actions to defend their claims, but the statement itself creates no such obligation, only an expectation," he said.
	In the News July 13, 2020 At home and abroad with MISTI 2020 MISTIMIT News “Covid-19 has demonstrated that international collaboration is essential to tackling challenges that span countries and cultures. Our aim in the coming year is to continue to equip students with the skills and awareness they will need to confront such challenges in the future.”
	In the News July 13, 2020 Trump administration’s move on visas is ‘dream-crashing’ for Indian students and families Joanna Slater and Niha MasihThe Washington Post Vipin Narang quoted: The announcement makes international students a pawn in the administration’s push to get universities to fully reopen in the fall, said Vipin Narang. The level of anxiety it has induced is “incalculable,” he said. “It really does enrage me.” Several major US universities, including MIT, have sued the Trump administration in an attempt to reverse the move.
	In the News July 13, 2020 US says most of China’s claims in South China Sea are illegal Edward Wong and Michael CrowleyThe New York Times M Taylor Fravel quoted: “The statement is a full-throated endorsement of the tribunal’s ruling,” said M Taylor Fravel, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studies China’s territorial disputes and its military.
	In the News July 10, 2020 US tells foreign students with online classes to go, universities look at options Karishma Mehrotra Indian Express Vipin Narang quoted: “There’s always been this concern about these online-only, for-profit, F1 scam businesses. But this directive seems a little more carefully crafted to target institutions like MIT. If all they want is some in-person component for online classes, I’ll be happy to do that. If this targets legitimate students in legitimate institutions, then any loophole that would allow faculty and institutions to make a class ‘hybrid’ would be exploited.”
	In the News July 8, 2020 History contradicts new Chinese claims over Bhutan's territory India Today BureauIndia Today M Taylor Fravel heavily quoted: Past Chinese maps, put out by prominent China expert and Director of the MIT Security Studies Program M Taylor Fravel, suggest that China has acknowledged the area as Bhutanese territory in the past. According to Fravel, the old Chinese maps “do not show Sakteng or nearby areas in Bhutan as Chinese territory”.
	In the News July 6, 2020 India-China agree to disengage at Galwan Valley; experts discuss the road ahead Parikshit LuthraCNBC-TV18 After a 60 day long confrontation at the Line of Actual Control (LAC), India and China have agreed to disengage and deescalate tensions at the LAC. Vipin Narang is among the experts who discuss the road ahead.
	In the News July 3, 2020 Trump slams China’s pattern of aggression Yashwant RajHindustan Times Vipin Narang heavily quoted: Narang said that one of the Trump administration’s foreign policy “bright spots” have been its relationship with India, and his personal bonhomie with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “That does not mean that the relationship is all roses, but there is a lot of sympathy and friendship toward India, across both parties and especially the Trump administration which has remained silent on domestic issues that some members of the Democratic Party have expressed concern about...”
	In the News July 3, 2020 First China, now Pakistan: How India's battling on two fronts Sudhi Ranjan SenBloomberg \| Quint Vipin Narang heavily quoted: “But my general sense is that Pakistan may feel like it needs to show resolve at home and to India in Jammu & Kashmir” after India changed the province's consitutional status in August last year, Narang said. Islamabad may “also be opportunistically taking advantage of India's distraction and focus on the LAC.”