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Iran – Natanz attack: Creating time for a nuclear deal with Iran? (AEI)

Michael Rubin On April 11, 2021, a blackout struck Iran’s Natanz nuclear enrichment facility causing it severe damage a day after President Hassan Rouhani inaugurated new, more...

USA – Public-private microschooling partnerships: The Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy model (AEI)

Ashley Campbell, Don Soifer The Southern Nevada Urban Micro Academy (SNUMA) is a first-of-its-kind partnership between the North Las Vegas city government and an innovation-focused education...

Sweden blames Russia for Swedish Sports Confederation hack (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The Swedish Sports Confederation organization was compromised in 2017-18 by hackers working for Russian military intelligence, officials said. https://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/116775/cyber-warfare-2/swedish-sports-confederation-hack.html

Army Software Factory experiments with a new culture to unleash coders in its ranks (Defense News)

Andrew Eversden U.S. Army Spc. Jeremy Boyle started creating software when he was 10 years old. Curious how websites were made, Boyle taught himself how...

Myanmar/ASEAN/UN – Time for a coordinated ASEAN–UN response to Myanmar’s coup (East Asia Forum)

Alistair DB Cook, RSIS The international community needs new ways of working together to respond to the violence deployed against protesters in Myanmar. https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2021/04/14/time-for-a-coordinated-asean-un-response-to-myanmars-coup/

Asia – Geopolitics drives vaccine access in Asia (East Asia Forum)

David P Fidler, CFR From the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccines were seen as critical to countering it. The World Health Organization (WHO) and...

USA/Japan – Priority on dealing with US–Japan alliance perception gap (East Asia Forum)

Ben Ascione, Waseda University When Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide becomes the first world leader to be hosted by US President Joe Biden on 16 April,...

USA – Looking back at the “Build Back Better with Biden FCC” series (Brookings)

Tom Wheeler One of the most sweeping agencies of the federal government is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC): Its regulatory authority over the nation’s networks...

USA – Why Democrats and Republicans would benefit from hate crime protections for Asian Americans (Brookings)

Caitlin Chin Donald Trump is well known for his biased and insensitive remarks toward communities of color. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/04/13/why-democrats-and-republicans-would-benefit-from-hate-crime-protections-for-asian-americans/

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