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President Barack Obama
has called the Iran nuclear deal, in which Iran agreed to give
up its nuclear development program in exchange for sanctions relief,
one of his administration’s greatest foreign policy achievements. But
President-elect Donald
Trump has repeatedly criticized the agreement and
threatened to pull out of it. In an interview with Asia Society Switzerland, Ali Vaez,
senior Iran analyst at the Crisis Group in Washington, D.C.,
discusses the deal’s future and why some people in Iran “prefer a
U.S. president who lacks nuance.”
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Throughout Trump’s campaign for
president, India was spared much of the sharp rhetoric that its Asian
neighbors received, but Indian leaders are also anxiously waiting to
see how they’ll be affected by a president-elect who has been short
on concrete policy proposals toward the country. For Asia Blog, the
Asia Society Policy Institute’s Anubhav Gupta
looks at how U.S.-India relations might fit into Trump’s plans, and
what effect that could have on the wider region.
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A spokesperson for a super PAC
backing Trump recently cited the World War II internment of Japanese
Americans as a “precedent” for a potential registry of immigrants
from predominantly Muslim countries. Speaking at Asia Society Southern California in Los Angeles
last spring, actor and social activist George Takei
recalled his “invasive, degrading, and humiliating” time in a
Japanese internment camp, and explained how one politician who was “a
good man” got caught up in racist “hysteria” to become instrumental
in establishing the camps.
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