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Fletcher’s Tom Dannenbaum explains how the International Criminal Court will try to build a “wall of evidence” in its case charging Israel’s top officials with starvation crimes in Gaza noting, “The challenge in evaluating any individual attack is assessing what was targeted, what information was known and what consequences were expected.” 

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal is quoted from The Horn podcast, saying, “We may not see a famine declaration, but there’s no question that the starvation crisis is on a scale without parallel for 40 years or more, and is going to kill hundreds of thousands of Sudanese.”

This article on Taiwan draws extensively from Fletcher Associate Professor Sulmaan Wasif Khan’s new The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between, described as a “rich and thoughtful book.”

Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian comments on his new FIMI research that shows despite modest improvements in diet quality trends among U.S. adults between 1999 to 2020, only 1.58% of Americans have an ideal diet. He notes the importance of adding “protective foods” to the American diet.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller comments in this article about chip-making company ASML, saying it ”is in a position it doesn’t want to be in, which is at the center of the technology race between China and the West.”

In this article about Taiwan’s richest people, Fletcher’s Chris Miller says “Taiwan’s semiconductor entrepreneurs have done very well over the past couple of years, because the whole chip industry has done well on the back of AI.”

TUSM Dean, Tufts Medicine Chief Academic Officer, and Tufts Medical Center Infectious Disease Physician Helen Boucher comments on likely reasons why antibiotic overuse was widespread early in the Covid pandemic.