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Fletcher’s Chris Miller comments on President Biden’s selection of a defense supplier for the inaugural CHIPS Act Grant saying, “If you look at this particular facility, its chips are used in military communications, in space, in radars, in electronic warfare systems. So there’s a pretty clear link here between what the security interest is, and what the CHIPS Act is accomplishing.”

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted at length about why doing business with China is harder than ever. A link to the October 2022 New York Times’ review of Miller’s Chip War is included.

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal co-authors this opinion piece on actions that President Biden can take to stop the "genocide in the making" in Sudan.

TUSM’s Barry Levy comments on how the indirect health impacts of war lead to more illness and death than the weapons of war. Levy is the author of From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.

Fletcher Dean ad interim Kelly Sims Gallagher examines how the United States and China could pioneer a new approach to financing green development in the global South as part of climate change cooperation.

Fletcher’s David C. Logan says that President Xi Jinping’s removal of the top commanders of China’s Rocket Force, which controls all land-based ballistic missiles, might impact the country’s nuclear weapons modernization efforts.

Fletcher’s Chris Miller says he is "surprised by the success" of the United States’ coalition of countries enacting semiconductor export restrictions aimed at China. Miller is quoted from a recent American Enterprise Institute event.

As the anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima approaches, Fletcher’s Tara Sonenshine discusses the state of nuclear arms diplomacy and efforts to reduce current nuclear stockpiles and curb new weapons development. 

Fletcher Visiting Scholar Pavel Luzin comments on the significance of Russia’s introduction of new state-owned military companies, which he says “are the next probable episode of the fragmentation of military power typical for many authoritarian regimes.”