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	In the News August 14, 2022 Power, laws, and planning Peter DizikesMIT News Office MIT urbanist Justin Steil studies how law and policy are used to replicate social divisions in the use of land.
	In the News August 14, 2022 International security expert on the threat of Iran plotting to kill Americans on US soil Fox News LiveFox News MIT security studies program's Jim Walsh reacts to officials of the National Council of Resistance of Iran being targeted by Tehran for their anti-regime activism on Fox News Live.
	In the News August 12, 2022 "Why do they hate us?": John Tirman on the dueling myths keeping Iran and the US from getting together Kelley Vlahos and Daniel LarisonCrashing the War Party John Tirman joins the Crashing the War Party podcast to dicuss US-Iran relations.
	In the News August 8, 2022 What-if DC war game maps huge toll of a future US-China war over Taiwan Tony CapaccioBloomberg Quoted: As China waged extensive military exercises off of Taiwan last week, a group of American defense experts (including CIS principal research scientist Eric Heginbotham and recent MIT PhD graduate Mark Cancian) in Washington was focused on their own simulation of an eventual — but for now entirely hypothetical — US-China war over the island. “The results are showing that under most—though not all—scenarios, Taiwan can repel an invasion,” said Cancian, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where the war games are being held. “However, the cost will be very high to the Taiwanese infrastructure and economy and to US forces in the Pacific,” he said. “Taiwan is a large island, and its army is not small,” said Heginbotham. “But from a qualitative standpoint, Taiwan’s army is not at all what it should be, and we have built that into the game. The transition to an all-volunteer military has been botched, and although conscripts remain an important component, the conscripts serve only four months.”
	In the News August 8, 2022 China ends series of live fire military drills around the island of Taiwan Emily FengNPR China says some of the live-fire military exercises in the waters around the island of Taiwan, which were supposed to end last Sunday, will now continue on a regular basis. So far, the drills have disrupted traffic in what's normally a busy international transit point, highlighting how important geopolitically Taiwan is. Taylor Fravel joins NPR to discuss the consequences.
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	In the News August 7, 2022 China’s military exercises showcase modern fighting force preparing for possible war in the Taiwan Strait Alastair Gale and Nancy A YoussefThe Wall Street Journal Quoted: “The ability to conduct joint operations around Taiwan has been a driver of China’s military strategy and force modernization for more than two decades,” [M Taylor] Fravel said. “We should not be surprised by what the PLA is doing, how it is doing it or what it has accomplished.”
	Analysis + Opinion August 5, 2022 Kishida becomes first Japanese PM to attend NPT Review Conference Mina PollmannThe Diplomat Kishida’s appearance at the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is a sign of his personal interest in nuclear disarmament.
	In the News August 4, 2022 What China wants from these war-games Omar DuwajiThe World Chinese officials warned that there would be a response if Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan. But what does Beijing want from these military maneuvers near the island of Taiwan? Host Marco Werman speaks with Taylor Fravel from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program.
	In the News August 4, 2022 China's show of force & fury: Military drills encircling Taiwan, explained Lizzi LeeSupChina Taylor Fravel analyzes the significance of the ongoing military drills surrounding Taiwan launched by PLA. Fravel explains the transformation the PLA has undergone since the 1990s, and how that change could potentially change Xi Jinping's strategic calculus on Taiwan.