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	In the News April 10, 2019 Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark MIT News New MIT-Denmark program is poised to send its first students overseas for internships and research.
	In the News April 8, 2019 Increasing threats against mobile devices force HHS, others to rethink protections Jason MillerFederal News Network Joel Brenner said taking your phone, laptop or other device to China was dangerous and would end up with lost data and the real possibility of having your home network compromised. “We suggested they take stripped down devices, if you are taking a device at all,” Brenner said in a recent interview with Federal News Network. “That advice was widely adopted by many companies as well as the government. I think it’s good, but tough advice to follow.”
	In the News April 4, 2019 Did India shoot down a Pakistani jet? US count says no. Lara Seligman Foreign Policy Although the news likely won’t sway Indian voters, Vipin Narang, an associate professor of political science at MIT, said the way the events have unfolded may affect India’s efforts to deter Pakistan in the future. “As details come out, it looks worse and worse for the Indians,” Narang said. “It looks increasingly like India failed to impose significant costs on Pakistan, but lost a plane and a helicopter of its own in the process.”
	In the News April 3, 2019 What we are reading today: Active Defense: China’s Military Strategy since 1949 by M. Taylor Fravel Arab News Active Defense offers the first systematic look at China’s military strategy from the mid-20th century to today.
	In the News April 2, 2019 To NASA's mission Shakti rebuke, ex-defence research chief's rebuttal Pallava Bagla NDTV Speaking to NDTV, Vipin Narang, a professor of political science and a specialist on strategic studies at MIT in Boston, US added, “Let's be clear there is only a 1 per cent risk of debris hitting the International Space Station, as as the NASA chief says there has been a 44 per cent increase in the risk of the ISS being hit by space junk created by the Indian A-SAT test, even then the risk goes up to a mere 1.44 per cent.”
	In the News April 1, 2019 NATO at 70: Is it time to overhaul one of America's oldest alliances? Meghna ChakrabartiWBUR Barry Posen says President Trump might be right — and that it’s time to rethink one of America’s oldest international alliances.
	In the News April 1, 2019 How North Korea got away with the assassination of Kim Jong-nam Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Benjamin HaasThe Guardian “The reason to do it publicly is to leave a calling card, to show the world that Kim Jong-un is not afraid to use a weapon of mass destruction at a crowded international airport,” said Vipin Narang, a politics professor at MIT.
	In the News March 28, 2019 Scholar as detective Andrew EricksonAmerican University Magazine A gambler pulling the lever of a slot machine is not that different from a researcher elbow-deep in archival material, says Joseph Torigian (MIT ’16).
	In the News March 27, 2019 India claims successful test of anti-satellite weapon Geoff BrumfielNPR Testing a missile capable of hitting a satellite is “a hop, skip and a jump away from a ballistic missile defense test,” Narang says.
	In the News March 27, 2019 India’s anti-satellite test wasn’t really about satellites Daniel OberhausWired Narang says, India’s anti-satellite test is difficult to make sense of because it is “both more dependent on satellites than Pakistan and it’s also less capable in a relative sense than China.”“If Pakistan starts hitting Indian satellites, India can knock out Pakistan’s very few satellites,” notes Narang.