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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.”

Fletcher’s Chris Miller is quoted from the July 12 New York Times Magazine article on the Biden administration's efforts to prevent China from getting access to cutting-edge semiconductors. 

Fletcher Visiting Scholar Maxim Krupskiy examines how the recent armed rebellion by Russian private military company the Wagner Group against President Vladimir Putin and the shocking lack of criminal repercussions for these actions characterizes “a new stage of degradation of the Russian legal system.”

As part of Cummings School’s collaboration on efforts to increase the number of veterinarians in Ukraine, Dean Alastair Cribb arranged to have a Ukrainian veterinarian who fled his country to work at Cummings and act as a liaison between Ukrainian veterinarians and the International Aid Committee.

Distinguished Professor and Friedman School Dean Emeritus Dariush Mozaffarian is quoted about the new World Health Organization findings on the artificial sweetener aspartame, saying, “The larger challenge is that with aspartame, like other additives, there’s just not enough science to say definitively, ‘Yes, this causes cancer’ or ‘No, it doesn’t.’”

Fletcher’s Alex de Waal assesses the current situation in Sudan, for which African leaders have a plan for peace “but there are still many roadblocks.”

Fletcher’s Zdenka Myslikova and Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton co-author this article highlighting Chile as an example of how Latin American countries are “embracing renewable energy while trying to plan a more self-reliant future.”