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March 13, 2018


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.




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.



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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