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Fletcher’s Donald Heflin shares his concerns regarding absent or inexperienced U.S. ambassadors and the State Department’s approach to the staffing of embassies, which are creating “a distinct problem for national security and strategic interests.”

School of Medicine student Dan Nguyen is helping his parents fulfill their dream by handling the communications for the restaurant Tony Pho, set to open in the next few months in East Longmeadow, Mass.

Fletcher Visiting Professor Mikhail Troitskiy says “there's not likely to be significant trust in what local and even federal authorities in Russia are saying” regarding reports that a Russian lab worker has died from pneumonic plague.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller comments in this article looking at the outcomes that US allies and partners in Asia are hoping for ahead of the US-Chinese summit on Sept. 24 in Washington, D.C.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted in this article on illegal chip smuggling into China, noting the demand for which is growing because AI chips are “the future of national power.”

Fletcher Senior Fellow Jennifer Morgan comments on topics of focus at the upcoming Climate Week NYC 2026, which runs alongside the United Nations General Assembly, including artificial intelligence and renewable energies.

Fletcher’s Nigel Purvis co-authors this piece outlining what a new climate diplomacy should look like now that the United Nations has reported that global warming will soon exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius, the goal nations agreed to strive toward in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Fletcher PhD student Tarun Gopalakrishnan looks at the goals of and current inaction by the international Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage, from which Nepal is seeking compensation as it looks to rebuild from the deadly flood that tore through communities in the Himalayas.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted throughout this article examining the AI race between the United States and China.