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François Godement
François Godement is the director of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Asia & China programme and a senior policy fellow. He is a non-resident senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC. Reprinted with permission from YaleGlobal Online http://yaleglobal.yale.edu

There is a common factor in Trump shredding the Iran nuclear deal and trying to reach one with North Korea: past deals with both countries have failed to rein in their missile programmes, as well as their trade between each other and with Syria.

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