Subject: The Evening CSIS: Fortune Reversed, In Other Elections, Billy Bragg & More
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Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 23:13:51 -0000

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 Party Discipline
 China’s Xi Jinping is set to test party discipline over the next two weeks, when roughly 3,000 lawmakers meet in Beijing to go over his economic blueprint for the next five years, as the  Wall Street Journal ’s Chun Han Wong reports [ http://cs.is/1QS3eTq ] .

 Dive Deeper:  CSIS’s Claire Reade authored a new commentary today: “Can We Make Progress on Trade and Investment with China in 2016? [ http://cs.is/1oWF4er ] ”

 Reversal of Fortune
 The collapse in oil prices over the past year has left state-owned energy groups in Latin America reeling, as the  Financial Times  reports [ http://cs.is/1QS5PwF ] .

 Dive Deeper:  CSIS’s Energy and National Security Program has launched a valuable and dynamic new publication series: Energy Fact & Opinion (EFO.) We plan to use these succinct, easy-to-digest notes to cover energy market, policy, and geopolitical developments in a timely manner.

In the latest edition of EFO, CSIS’s Sarah Ladislaw, Zachary Cuyler, and Katelyn Heflin authored “Energy Fact & Opinion: Venezuela Attempts to Regain Balance [ http://cs.is/1VPdhqs ] .”

For more on Venezuela, CFR’s Robert Kahn wrote “Venezuela on the Edge [ http://cs.is/1QS8Hd1 ] .”

 Don't Forget about Iran's Election
 “4 reasons Iran’s election is a bigger deal than you think [ http://cs.is/1QS8pmf ] ,” by Vox’s Max Fisher.

 Dive Deeper:  Dr. Sanam Vakil of Chatham House writes in a commentary published today “Despite Election Triumph, Rouhani Still Faces Formidable Foes [ http://cs.is/1QS8u9H ] .” 

 The Jungle
 A notorious migrant shantytown known as “the Jungle” in Calais, France, often used as a staging ground to cross the English Channel to the UK was torn down Tuesday amid clashes with French police, as the  Washington Post ’s James McAuley reports [ http://cs.is/1VP85CV ] .

 Dive Deeper:  The German Marshall Fund’s Stephen Szabo today posted a 10-minute podcast: “The Multiple Crises of Europe: A Conversation with Klaus Scharioth [ http://cs.is/1QS8YN6 ] ."

 In that Number
  $1 million 
The CEO of an international metallurgical company is facing up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine for exporting a dual-use cobalt-nickel metallic powder to Iran. 
Source: Department of Justice [ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chief-executive-officer-international-metallurgical-company-arrested-exporting-aerospace ] .

 Critical Quote
 “I can’t imagine the Chinese would tolerate end-to-end encryption or a refusal to cooperate with their police, particularly in a terrorism case.”
—James A. Lewis, director of the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program, on the recent controversy over the FBI and Apple iPhone encryption case.
Source:  LA [ http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-apple-china-20160226-story.html ]    Times [ http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-apple-china-20160226-story.html ]  .

 One to Watch 

 

 

( Photo Credit: Twitter. )
Jillian Kumagai (@jilliankumagai [ https://twitter.com/jilliankumagai ] ) is an editorial fellow at the  Atlantic  focusing on global affairs. Jillian writes the  Atlantic ’s “The Week in Global-Affairs Writing [ http://www.theatlantic.com/author/jillian-kumagai ] ,” which showcases foreign affairs articles from a variety of sources each week. She was previously an editorial assistant at  Guernica  and a features intern at Mashable. For foreign affairs news from around the web, Jillian is one to watch.

 Optics

 

 

Astronaut Scott Kelly posted this picture [ https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/status/704705817661083649/photo/1 ]  of the last sunrise that he will see on his year-long mission aboard the International Space Station. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko will return to Earth later tonight, a live-feed is available here [ http://gizmodo.com/watch-scott-kelly-and-mikhail-kornienko-plummet-to-eart-1762158022 ] .

 Highly Recommended
 “New bin Laden documents show a suspicious, pressured al Qaeda,” [ http://cs.is/1QS1PMI ]  by Reuters’ Warren Strobel, Phil Stewart, and Mark Hosenball.

 CSIS Today
 Today, the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development hosted “Facing Complex Challenges: Innovating through Integrated Development.” To watch the event on demand, click here. [ http://csis.org/event/facing-complex-challenges-innovating-through-integrated-development ] 

 CSIS Tomorrow
 Tomorrow, join CSIS at 9:30 a.m. as the Energy and National Security Program hosts a discussion on Canada’s energy future in 2016. Click here [ http://csis.org/event/canadas-energy-future-2016 ]  to register or watch online. And after at 10:00 a.m., catch a panel [ http://csis.org/event/whos-fairest-them-all-effects-bid-protests-acquisition-system ]  discussion that explores the US government’s bid protest procedures and how this mechanism shapes process, practice, and behavior in the defense acquisition system. Finally, watch live [ http://csis.org/event/public-diplomacy-and-higher-education ]  tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. for a discussion on the role of higher education in US diplomacy and foreign policy.

 This Town Tomorrow
 As the world watches Iran’s latest elections, join the Woodrow Wilson International Center tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. for “Analyzing the Results of the February 26 Iran Elections.” Register for the discussion here [ https://dc.linktank.com/event/analyzing-the-results-of-the-february-26-iranian-elections ] .

 CSIS on Demand
 On Monday, CSIS hosted a discussion on China’s initiative to promote Internet sovereignty as a key governing concept of the global Internet. Watch the event on demand here [ http://csis.org/event/china-reality-check-chinas-internet-sovereignty-initiative-origins-and-consequences ] , as panelists cover what would happen if the initiative were successful.

 Sounds
 The CSIS Energy and National Security Program’s latest podcast covered the role of US production in current market dynamics. The podcast is available here [ http://csis.org/program/podcast-series ] .

 I Like It Like That 
 Eye-catching things in CSIS's orbit 

By 2020, BI Intelligence estimates  [ http://cs.is/1VP6SeP ] that 75% of cars shipped globally will be built with the necessary hardware to connect to the Internet.

 Smiles
 “Way over yonder in the minor key…there ain’t nobody that can sing like me.”

Folk music, by definition, is embedded in all of our DNA. Most simply put, it is the music of the people. And, together, along with jazz, blues, country, bluegrass and other genres of music, it comprises the DNA of Rock and Roll.

I’ve always been fascinated by folk or “roots” music. I couldn’t help but notice Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger during early childhood. Nowadays, I think about Woody and his iconic status all the time.

Guthrie influenced some of the most important musicians of the past 100 years—among them, Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and Bruce Springsteen.

Guthrie also influenced one of the more important but lesser known English singer-songwriters of the past several decades, Billy Bragg.

With the American roots rock band Wilco, Bragg took dozens of Guthrie’s unrecorded lyrics and set them to music in 1998 for a record called Mermaid Avenue—the name of the street in Coney Island, New York where Woody lived.  The music of Mermaid Avenue proved to be so popular that three volumes of it have been released, the latest in 2012.

With this simple acoustic performance [ http://cs.is/1QS12v2 ] , Bragg underscores the lasting power of folk music and of Woody Guthrie.

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