Subject: The Evening CSIS: Smashing iPhones, Malay Malay, Driven to Tears & More
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The Evening CSIS: The Evening CSIS: Smashing iPhones, Malay Malay, Driven to Tears & More
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** Good Evening,
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Welcome to
The Evening CSIS—my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day plus HIGHLY RECOMMENDED content from around the world. To subscribe, please send me an email at [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked])

** Crackdown
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Turkey issued a ban on professional travel for all academics and opened top-to-bottom investigations into military courts today as security chiefs planned the next steps in sweeping crackdowns after last week’s failed coup. More than 50,000 people have been rounded up, sacked, or suspended from their jobs by Turkey’s government in the wake of last week’s failed coup, as the BBC reports (http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36842073) .

And, the Guardian reports (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/20/turkey-blocks-access-to-wikileaks-after-erdogan-party-emails-go-online) that Turkey has blocked access to the WikiLeaks website, the telecoms watchdog has said, after nearly 300,000 e-mails from President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s ruling Justice and Development party (AKP) were put online as Ankara grapples with the aftermath of the failed military coup.

Dive Deeper: Friday’s failed coup in Turkey came as a shock to many and throws the country into even more uncertainty. CSIS’s Bulent Aliriza was in Turkey’s capital Ankara while the coup was taking place and discusses the fallout—from the coming backlash to the international implications. Hosted by Colm Quinn, the CSIS Podcast spoke with Bulent for a “View from the Ground (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/csis-podcast) ."

** Smashing iPhones
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Chinese state media called for “rational patriotism” today amid anti-US protests in recent days over the recent South China Sea ruling. Chinese nationalists have protested at KFC outlets and called for boycotts of the fast-food chain, while photos and video circulating online and on social media show people wearing scarves and banners with patriotic slogans smashing Apple iPhones in protest, as
USA Today’s Kim Hjelmgaard reports (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/07/20/kfc-apple-china-hit-south-china-sea-spat/87330092/) .

Dive Deeper: For those of you who don’t smash your iPhones, you can listen to Bonnie Glaser’s new China Power Podcast, “When a Rock is Just a Rock: Breaking Down the UN Ruling (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/dutton) .” Bonnie’s conversation is with Peter Dutton, director of the China Maritime Studies Institute at the US Naval War College.

And, CSIS has a suite of in-the-moment weekly podcasts (https://www.csis.org/podcasts) that dive deep into critical global issues.

** Malay, Malay
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US prosecutors have linked the prime minister of Malaysia, a key American ally in Asia, to hundreds of millions of dollars allegedly siphoned from one of the country’s economic development funds, according to a civil lawsuit seeking the seizure of more than $1 billion of assets from other people connected to him, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Bradley Hope and Tom Wright report (http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seeks-1-billion-in-asset-seizures-tied-to-malaysian-fund-1mdb-1469019540) .

** In That Number
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** 26
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26 of 49 seats were empty at today’s White House briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest.
Source: Washington Post White House correspondent David Nakamura (@DavidNakamura (https://twitter.com/DavidNakamura) ).

** Critical Quote
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** “This isn’t going to be some kind of absolute victory. Nobody’s going to sign a surrender document. We can’t afford to become obsessed with an acronym. The broader threat of Islamic extremism has not diminished.”
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— CSIS's Anthony H. Cordesman on the need to look beyond ISIS. Source: VOA (http://www.voanews.com/content/counter-islamic-state-meeting-joint-andrews/3427293.html) .

** One to Watch
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(Photo Credit: Twitter.)

John Cutter (@johncutter (https://twitter.com/johncutter) ) is managing editor of the Orlando Sentinel. This week, Bob Schieffer and I interviewed John for our “About the News (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bob-schieffers-about-news/id1124101295?mt=2) ” podcast and asked him about covering the Orlando shooting, survival in the newspaper business, and the media’s role in reporting on government.

** Optics
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(Photo credit: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images.)

Ukrainian police officers and security services experts examine the charred car of 44-year-old journalist Pavel Sheremet, after he was killed in a car bomb in Kiev this morning. Sheremet, a well-known pro-Western journalist was originally from Belarus but a Russian citizen who worked for Ukrainska Pravda, an independent news site. He died when an explosion tore through the car he was in.

** Highly Recommended
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“A new jihadist threat may be on the horizon in Syria (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-new-jihadist-threat-rises-in-syria-as-the-islamic-state-recedes/2016/07/19/f9fd6ae6-4df4-11e6-a422-83ab49ed5e6a_story.html) ,” via the
Washington Post’s David Ignatius.

** CSIS Today
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CSIS’s Russia and Eurasia Program hosted “Russia’s New Nationalism (https://www.csis.org/events/russias-new-nationalism) .”

CSIS’s Simon Chair in Political Economy hosted “China and the G20 (https://www.csis.org/events/china-and-g20) ,” featuring keynote speaker Wally O. Adeyemo, deputy national security adviser for international economics at the White House.

** CSIS Tomorrow
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Join CSIS’s Europe Program at 5:00 p.m. for a Statesmen’s Forum featuring H.E. Jean-Marc Ayrault (https://www.csis.org/events/statesmens-forum-he-jean-marc-ayrault-french-minister-foreign-affairs-and-international) , France’s minister of foreign affairs and international development.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the Asia Society Policy Institute at 8:00 a.m. for “Cultural Diplomacy 2.0: A Major Opportunity and Industry to Strengthen U.S.-China Relations (http://asiasociety.org/washington-dc/events/cultural-diplomacy-20-major-opportunity-and-industry-strengthen-us-china-relati) .”

And join the Atlantic Council at 12:00 p.m. for “Go for Growth, Europe! (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/go-for-growth-europe) ,” featuring former Hungarian prime minister Gordon Bajnai and former US ambassador to the EU Stuart Eizenstat.

** CSIS On Demand
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Watch “Defense Reform in the 21st Century (https://www.csis.org/events/defense-reform-21st-century) ” hosted by CSIS’s International Security Program in March.

** Sounds
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Listen to the latest CogitAsia podcast, “Understanding China’s Intelligence Services (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/cogitasia-podcast) ” to learn how China spies.

** I Like It Like That
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London’s Tate Modern art gallery in London has built the Tate Time Machine (http://timemachine.tate.org.uk/page/content/timemachine/) , an immersive digital experience that allows you to travel back in time to discover how art has been shaped by history. For example, if you stumble into 1937, you’ll meet Pablo Picasso in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. He has just seen the world around him torn apart by the bombing of Guernica, and in response he creates “Weeping Woman,” an oil painting that depicts a distraught mother holding her child. In your next trip, you might be transported to Cornwall in the 1940s to meet Barbara Hepworth or to Japan in the 1950s to discover Shozo Shimamoto. Really like it.

** Smiles
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Some people wake up thinking “blueberry pancakes.” I woke up this morning thinking “Pearl Jam!”

And then I remembered that something very cool happened at the Pearl Jam concert at Madison Square Garden back in May. Pearl Jam, one of my favorite bands of the 1990s (and now) launched into “Driven to Tears,” one of my favorite all-time songs by my favorite band of the 1980s (and of all-time), The Police.

Then, as Pearl Jam gently grooved along through the songs’ first couple of riffs, Sting appeared on stage…the audience began to gradually become aware of Sting’s presence and went wild as he grabbed the microphone. You’ll have to forgive Sting for his language—he’s not Sir Sting, he’s punk and always will be.

This is such a smile (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZwCAF4xyJQ&feature=youtu.be) . Just like blueberry pancakes…

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