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	In the News July 9, 2019 World powers react to Iran exceeding limits in nuclear deal Robin YoungWBUR Here & Now Jim Walsh, MIT Securities Studies Program senior research associate, discusses Iran enriching uranium beyond the accord's 3.67% limit as tensions with Iran escalate. He speaks with Robin Young on Here & Now.
	In the News July 6, 2019 Hot new Japan book releases for the sweltering summer Iain MaloneyThe Japan Times Rumors and secrets are at the heart of Richard J Samuels’ “Special Duty: A History of the Japanese Intelligence Community” (Cornell University Press, October).
	In the News July 6, 2019 Chaguan \| A chained dragon The Economist Quoted: America’s geography is even luckier below the waves, argues Owen Cote, in a new study in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Since the cold war, he writes, America has successfully tracked foreign submarines with acoustic arrays placed where continental shelves end and deep oceans begin. Link to full text article
	In the News July 4, 2019 Even for a limited nuclear deal, North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief Reporting by Josh Smith; Editing by Lincoln FeastReuters Vipin Narang, quoted in this article, said “A freeze on fissile material, nuclear weapons, and missile production at Yongbyon and beyond—when North Korea does not even acknowledge enrichment facilities outside Yongbyon—without some sanctions relief, seems unlikely,”
	In the News July 3, 2019 Trump-Kim handshake may be meaningless without bridging denuclearization differences Christy LeeVOA Vipin Narang, quoted in this article, said for the working-level talks to succeed both sides need to revise their positions going forward and agree on the definition of denuclearization and what approach to take in achieving it.
	Analysis + Opinion July 3, 2019 China is not an enemy M Taylor Fravel , J Stapleton Roy , Michael D Swaine , Susan A Thornton and Ezra VogelThe Washington Post Experts published seven propositions that represent their collective views on China, the problems in the US approach to China and the basic elements of a more effective US policy.
	In the News July 3, 2019 The IT and biological technology link Bitange NdemoBusiness Daily Africa Ken Oye spoke at The Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Georgia Institute of Technology on The Emerging to Converging Technologies Conference in Johannesburg and had many solutions that could bring great benefit to the southern hemisphere.
	In the News July 3, 2019 Military strategy and politics in the PRC SupChina The SupChina podcast featured Taylor Fravel. His new book Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy Since 1949, examines the changes to the PLA’s strategy, why they happen, and why, just as importantly, in some moments when we’d expect major changes in strategy, they don’t happen.
	In the News July 1, 2019 Trump steps over North Korean border and into controversial nuclear negotiations Lisa MullinsWBUR Here & Now President Trump traveled to the demilitarized zone between the Koreas and shook hands with Kim Jong Un in North Korean territory. Jim Walsh weighs in.
	In the News July 1, 2019 After Trump and Kim's handshake, what comes next in US-North Korean talks?: Analysis Conor FinneganABC News “I have no problem with a stunt that jolts a comatose working level process,” tweeted Vipin Narang, assistant professor at MIT, about the DMZ meeting. “But this was picking up the fifteen yards we lost at Hanoi because of Trump's own hardened maximalist position. If that doesn't change, this is just theatrics.”