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News@E40September 11, 2020The Center's bi-annual magazine is now availableprécis, the Center's bi-annual magazine, features essays and the wide range of activities of our faculty, researchers and affiliates. The spring/summer 2020 edition is now available for download. |
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In the NewsSeptember 11, 2020China and India agree to ‘disengage troops’ in HimalayasAmy KazminThe Financial TimesVipin Narang quoted: “The bottom line is we have to see what happens on the ground,” said Vipin Narang. “Until there is physical disengagement on the ground, you could still get an accident that forces one or both sides into a conflict that they don’t want.” |
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In the NewsSeptember 10, 2020India and China meet to defuse Himalayan border tensionsAmy KazminThe Financial TimesVipin Narang heavily quoted: “I don’t think that either side really wants to risk a war over these positions along the line of actual control but we now have a lot of friction points,” he said. “The problem isn’t that one side starts a war intentionally. The risk is that they stumble into war.” But he added that expectations for the talks were muted. “I don’t think anybody expects there to be a massive breakthrough,” he said. “The best-case scenario is that both sides walk away with a detailed framework of how to disengage.” |
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In the NewsSeptember 9, 2020Fresh Pangong lake face-off complicates Jaishankar-Wang’s face-to-face meetRezaul H LaskarHindustan TimesVipin Narang quoted: “I don’t think either India or China have an incentive to go to war over the border dispute, but the increasing intensity and persistence of friction, along with air activity and the presence of loaded firearms may cause them to ‘stumble’ into war,” he said. “An advertent or inadvertent incident at a local flashpoint could now really fuel a broader conflict that neither government wants, as the forces continue to come into contact with each other,” Narang added. |
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In the NewsSeptember 7, 2020Pictures and videos show California burning as more wildfires break out across stateAristos Georgiou NewsweekVipin Narang quoted: “This is not a nuclear blast. It is California on fire,” MIT professor Vipin Narang wrote in a post showing the image on Twitter. |
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In the NewsSeptember 6, 2020Russia 'thinks they can get away with' poisoning NavalnyFox NewsJim Walsh discusses the suspected poisoning of Russian activist Alexei Navalny and Trump's response to the allegation. |
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In the NewsSeptember 4, 2020Images suggest North Korea may be preparing launch of submarine missile—think tankDavid BrunnstromReutersVipin Narang quoted: “North Korea already tested a PKS-3 SLBM last October. And it didn’t cross Trump’s redline then, and is unlikely to this time. Trump won’t care,” Vipin Narang, a non-proliferation expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, wrote on Twitter. |
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In the NewsSeptember 3, 2020America’s problem is much bigger than TikTokDavid WertimePOLITICO China WatcherM Taylor Fravel quoted: This year’s annual Pentagon report on the People’s Liberation Army dropped this week and it’s “the most comprehensive and detailed one ever published.” |
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In the NewsSeptember 2, 2020China may double its nuclear arsenal in just 10 years. Don’t panic.Alex WardVoxVipin Narang quoted: “A doubling is not as scary as it sounds,” said Vipin Narang, a nuclear expert at MIT. “China doubling over the next couple decades is kind of ‘it’s about time,’” said MIT’s Narang. “China is late to the game.” |
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In the NewsSeptember 1, 2020Donald Blackmer, professor emeritus of political science and longtime leader at MIT, dies at 91MIT NewsAn esteemed scholar and extraordinary steward of institutions and people, he was known to light up the academic landscape. |