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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.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted about advanced chips that are being shipped to China amid U.S. restrictions, noting, “It’s the chips that are critical for A.I. that the U.S. is really targeting.” Miller is author of Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology.

Fletcher Visiting Scholar Pavel Luzin is quoted about Russia’s intensifying summer offensive, which includes a plan “to demoralize Ukrainian society and authorities.”

Fletcher’s Jenny Aker discusses the transformative impact that increased mobile internet coverage could have in sub-Saharan Africa, but notes that this technology is “no substitute for investment in public services and infrastructure.”

Fletcher’s Sulmaan Wasif Khan joins Bloomberg's Businessweek Podcast to discuss his new book The Struggle for Taiwan: A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between.

Fletcher Dean Emeritus James Stavridis examines how coming exercises in the Baltic Sea will give NATO a chance to work Finland and Sweden into its complex web of defenses.

This article highlighting the collaborative work of Cummings School’s Jonathan Runstadler and Wendy Puryear to track bird flu also links to an April 2 Boston Globe piece focused on their efforts in Massachusetts.

Fletcher’s Karen Jacobsen outlines the main types of humanitarian admissions for immigrants to the United States, provides background on settling patterns, and shares ways that local and federal governments can support new humanitarian arrivals.