Subject: The Evening CSIS: St. Petersburg Attack, Egyptian President Sisi, Bob and Willie and More
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Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 23:04:08 +0000
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The Evening CSIS: St. Petersburg Attack, Egyptian President Sisi, Bob and Willie and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Monday, April 3.

** St. Petersburg Attack
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11 people were killed and over 40 more were wounded in a subway attack in St. Petersburg just before rush hour in Russia’s “second city,” as the
New York Times’ Ivan Nechepurenko and Neil MacFarquhar report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/world/europe/st-petersburg-russia-explosion.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

Vladimir Putin was visiting St. Petersburg during the attack. Newsweek has produced this timeline of terrorism in Russia under Putin (http://www.newsweek.com/timeline-terrorism-russia-president-vladimir-putin-578227?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s data visualization of the world’s terrorist attacks between 2012 and 2015 (https://csis.carto.com/builder/60931f8e-9bcb-11e6-98fa-0e05a8b3e3d7/embed?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

** Egyptian President at the White House
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President Trump provided a boost to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi today, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Felicia Schwartz reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-welcoming-egypts-sisi-says-we-agree-on-so-many-things-1491239938?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) , giving him a warm welcome to the White House as his administration shifts the US focus in its relationship with Cairo away from human rights while emphasizing security cooperation.

Dive Deeper: See the Washington Institute’s David Schenker on “President Trump Talks Terror with Egypt's Sisi (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/president-trump-talks-terror-with-egypts-sisi?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .”

** US-China-Russia Showdown
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The United States today set up a likely showdown with Russia and China later in April over its plans to hold a U.N. Security Council meeting on human rights, an issue that Moscow and Beijing oppose being broadly discussed by the 15-member body, as Reuters’ Michelle Nichols reports (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-rights-usa-russia-idUSKBN17524E?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Asia Team today authored a new CSIS Critical Questions (CSIS’s signature series of asked and answered short papers) on “Donald Trump’s First Summit with President Xi Jingping of China (https://www.csis.org/analysis/donald-trumps-first-summit-president-xi-jinping-china?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) ,” which will take place later this week.

And see Brooking’s David Dollar’s commentary: “Trade is front and center as Trump and Xi meet (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/04/03/trade-is-front-and-center-as-trump-and-xi-meet/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .”

** In That Number
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** 45
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Turkey dismissed 45 more judges and prosecutors on Monday as part of investigations into last July's failed coup, the state-run Anadolu agency said today. Around 4,000 members of the judiciary have now been purged. Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-security-judges-idUSKBN17523R?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “It makes no sense for the U.S. to return to diplomacy with North Korea as long as 85 percent of the North's external trade is with China.”
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—CSIS’s Victor Cha on “How Trump and Xi Should Deal with North Korea (https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-trump-and-xi-should-deal-north-korea?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .”

** iDeas Lab
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CSIS’s International Security Program recently released Recalibrating U.S. Strategy toward Russia, a new report that offers the framework for a comprehensive strategy toward Russia. The strategy is derived from analysis and insights regarding key elements of past US policy toward Russia, historical Russian reactions to major events on its periphery, and the tool sets each side can bring to bear in advancing its national interests. You can view or download the report here (https://www.csis.org/analysis/recalibrating-us-strategy-toward-russia?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and video.

** Optics
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(Photo Credit: Alexander Bulekov/AFP/Getty Images.)
An injured man is helped by medics outside of the Technological Institute metro station in St. Petersburg today after an explosion rocked the metro system in Russia's second city.

** Recommended Reading
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Reuters Exclusive: “NAmerico unveils natural gas pipeline plan to relieve Permian glut (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-namerico-partners-pipeline-idUSKBN1750CW?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .”

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS’s Smart Women, Smart Power initiative at 6:30 p.m. for a conversation with Representative Martha McSally (R-AZ) (https://www.csis.org/events/border-security-threats-and-fight-against-terrorism-worldwide-conversation-representative?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) about border security, the threat from ISIS, and the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan.

Join GWU’s Elliott School of International Affairs at 12:00 p.m. for “Asylum-Seekers in Europe: A Crisis for Europe, the United States, and the world (https://elliott.gwu.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D123064193&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .”

And join the Atlantic Council at 1:00 p.m. for the launch of a new report, (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/keeping-americas-innovative-edge?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) Keeping America’s Innovative Edge (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/keeping-americas-innovative-edge?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

** On Demand
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Last week, CSIS’s Freeman Chair in China Studies hosted “China Reality Check: The Trump-Xi Mar-a-Lago Meeting: Expectations and Implications (https://www.csis.org/events/china-reality-check-trump-xi-mar-lago-meeting-expectations-and-implications?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) ,” featuring a conversation with Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, founding director emeritus of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center.

** Sounds
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In “Trump’s Climate Changes” from the CSIS Podcast, Sarah Ladislaw of the CSIS Energy and National Security Program talks through the ins and outs of President Trump’s executive order rolling back President Obama's climate change agenda. You can listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/the-csis-podcast/id383703191?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/trumps-climate-changes?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) .

** Smiles
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This smile just keeps me grinning. Recently, my friend, mentor, and podcast collaborator Bob Schieffer went down to Luck, Texas to visit with Willie Nelson who is about to turn 84…and has recorded some really great new music. On Sunday Morning, CBS aired this segment with Bob and Willie (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/videos/for-the-record-willie-nelson/vp-BBzcEVK?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=2219132219-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-2219132219-145367789) , and I bet you’ll love it just as much as I do.
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