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NORTH KOREA
The
Trump/Kim Meeting: What To Expect
The
announcement that President
Trump would soon meet with Kim Jong Un
— in what would be the first-ever summit between a sitting U.S.
president and a North Korean leader — marks a stunning development in
the years-long dispute over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. Asia
Society experts Kevin
Rudd, Daniel
Russel, Lindsey
Ford, and Isaac
Stone Fish tell us what to look out for.
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TRADE
Australian
Foreign Minister Warns of 'Pitfalls of Protectionism'
Julie
Bishop told an Asia
Society audience that President
Trump's imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs would
have detrimental consequences for the rest of the world by triggering
a "downward spiral" in the form of a trade war.
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IRAN
NUCLEAR DEAL
How
Uncertainty Over the Nuclear Deal Is Strangling Iran's Economy
The
2015 agreement curtailing Iran's nuclear weapons program in exchange
for sanctions relief was supposed to trigger investment in the
country's struggling economy. But Trita Parsi, founder of the
National Iranian American Council, argues that uncertainty
over what the U.S. will do has caused potential investors to become
skittish.
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