Subject: The Evening CSIS: Syria Threatens Israel, Xi’s Spotlight, Higher Ground & More
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Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 22:57:11 +0000
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The Evening CSIS: Syria Threatens Israel, Xi’s Spotlight, Higher Ground & More
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** Syria Warns Israel
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The Syrian government says Israel has attacked a military airport west of Damascus and warns of “repercussions” without promising any specific retaliation, as NPR’s Camila Domonoske reports (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/01/13/509632579/syria-says-israel-attacked-military-airport-warns-of-repercussions?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Chatham House’s Lina Khatib on how cease-fires in Syria are another tool of warfare (https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/how-ceasefires-syria-became-another-tool-warfare?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .

** Xi's Spotlight
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Chinese president Xi Jinping is about to take center stage at the ultimate gathering of globalists from the world over, and he hopes to make his country the middle of global attention while he’s at it.  Xi will speak before elite business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos next Tuesday, just days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. Beijing will use the appearance in Switzerland to favorably contrast Xi and China with Trump and the United States, as CNBC’s Evelyn Cheng reports (http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/13/davos-china-puts-xi-jinping-in-spotlight-before-trump-inauguration.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Bonnie Glaser and Mike Green authored a new Critical Questions (CSIS’s signature series of asked & answered short papers): “What Is the U.S. “One China” Policy, and Why Does it Matter? (https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-why-does-it-matter/?block2&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) ”

Plus, Brookings’s Jeffrey Bader authored a commentary yesterday: “U.S.-China challenges: Time for China to step up. (https://www.brookings.edu/research/u-s-china-challenges-time-for-china-to-step-up/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) ”

** New Schieffer Podcasts
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This week, amid an extraordinary news cycle, we posted two new episodes of Bob Schieffer’s “About the News” podcast (http://cs.is/29WgPau?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) , featuring our interviews with
Fox News Sunday’s Chris Wallace and CNN’s Jake Tapper: “Chris Wallace and the Fox Firewall” and “Jake Tapper and Trump’s First Press Conference.”

** In That Number
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** 18
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The number of Syrian officials that the United States sanctioned today in response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons against civilians. Source: WSJ’s Felicia Schwartz (http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-sanctions-18-syrians-for-chlorine-gas-attacks-1484290034?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Taiwan is widely viewed by Chinese on the mainland as the last vestige of the century of humiliation that began with the Opium Wars in the middle of the nineteenth century.”
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—CSIS’s Bonnie Glaser and Michael Green authored a new commentary today, “What Is the U.S. “One China” Policy, and Why Does it Matter? (https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-why-does-it-matter?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) ”

** One to Watch
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Charles B. Curtis is a senior adviser with CSIS’s Energy and National Security Program. Today, Charles was awarded the James R. Schlesinger Medal for Energy Security by Secretary of Energy Ernie Moniz. You can watch the ceremony and Charles’s remarks here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA_o1MSVDRk&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789#t=49m44s) .

** Optics
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(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images.)
Workers hang an early version of the American flag today on the U.S. Capitol to be used as part of the backdrop to the presidential inauguration for President-elect Donald Trump as he prepares to take the reins of power next week.

** Highly Recommended
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Via Stuart Eizenstat and Dennis Ross for the
Washington Post, “Here’s what Plan B in the Middle East should look like (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-what-plan-b-in-the-middle-east-should-look-like/2017/01/12/720631f4-d8f0-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html?utm_term=.36873277da37&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

** CSIS Today
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CSIS’s Simon Chair in Political Economy hosted “The Future of Global Trade (https://www.csis.org/events/future-global-trade?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) ,” featuring an armchair conversation with Michael Froman, US trade representative.

And CSIS’s Russia and Eurasia Program hosted “Russia’s Intervention in Syria: Lessons Learned (https://www.csis.org/events/russias-intervention-syria-lessons-learned?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

** CSIS Tuesday
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Join CSIS’s Freeman Chair in China Studies at 9:15 a.m. for an expert panel on “The Cross-Strait Security Situation (https://www.csis.org/events/cross-strait-security-situation?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

Join us at 10:30 a.m. for a Schieffer Series: Critical Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Trump Administration (https://www.csis.org/events/schieffer-series-discussion-critical-foreign-policy-challenges-facing-trump-administration?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) , featuring CSIS trustee Bob Schieffer.

Join CSIS’s Energy and National Security Program at 2:00 p.m. for “IEA’s Medium-Term Coal Market Report 2016 (https://www.csis.org/events/iea%E2%80%99s-medium-term-coal-market-report-2016?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

Join CSIS’s International Security Program at 3:00 p.m. for “Getting Acquisition Right: Remarks and Book Signing with Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall (https://www.csis.org/events/getting-acquisition-right-remarks-and-book-signing-under-secretary-defense-frank-kendall?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

And join CSIS’s Human Rights Initiative at 4:00 p.m. for “Public Diplomacy and National Security: Lessons Learned for the Next Administration (https://www.csis.org/events/public-diplomacy-and-national-security-lessons-learned-next-administration?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

** This Town Tuesday
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Join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace at 4:00 p.m. for “A Conversation with Under Secretary of the Treasury Nathan Sheets (http://carnegieendowment.org/2017/01/17/conversation-with-under-secretary-of-u.s.-treasury-nathan-sheets-event-5481?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) ” on international economic policy in the Obama administration and the importance of continued American leadership.

** CSIS On Demand
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CSIS’s Strategic Technologies Program hosted “Deepening U.S.-Australia Cyber Security Cooperation (https://www.csis.org/events/deepening-us-australia-cyber-security-cooperation?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) ” with Malcolm Turnbull, prime minister of Australia and Jeh Johnson, US secretary of homeland security.

** Sounds
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Russian Roulette released a new podcast today, “Of Great Books and Great Questions (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/russian-roulette/id1112258664?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .”

** I Like It Like That
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CSIS president and CEO John Hamre had a letter to the editor published today in the
Hill: “Mattis would be an excellent Defense secretary (http://thehill.com/opinion/letters/314166-mattis-would-be-a-excellent-defense-secretary?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789#.WHk11U_RzLk.twitter) .”

** Smiles
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Spotify, the music streaming service, is the greatest technology the music industry could have ever hoped for in the era of “freemium,” where consumers often don’t expect to pay for content. Spotify changed that, and artists now are compensated based on a micropayment system. Everyone benefits.

In the old days we used to spend 10 bucks and own 12 songs (an album’s worth.) Now we fork over a ten spot a month and have access to EVERYTHING. And Spotify has great features like “New Music Friday” where you can discover scores of artists from all over the world easily and who you otherwise might not notice.

Spotify also picks up on what YOU like. It learns what you like to listen to and makes suggestions. Somehow, this week, it picked up on the fact that I love funk music. And it put together a playlist for me that included essential tracks from the likes of Marvin Gaye, Aretha, Stevie Wonder, The Meters, Dr. John, Brick, Funkadelic, James Brown, The Ohio Players, The Brothers Johnson and more. Wow, a smile indeed, and it made me want to play this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbdXWvmysg&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2a336c572c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2a336c572c-145367789) .

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