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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.

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.