Subject: The Evening: Friends in France, Gulf Game of Thrones, Dreams and More
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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:39:58 +0000
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The Evening: Friends in France, Gulf Game of Thrones, Dreams and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Thursday, July 13th.
Note: The Evening will be “gone fishin’” on Friday, July 14 and will return next Monday.

** Friendship With France
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President Trump said the U.S. friendship with France is “unbreakable” in a news conference today in Paris following bilateral talks, which included the two nations addressing global threats together, as France 24 reports (http://www.france24.com/en/20170713-macron-welcomes-trump-bastille-day-press-conference-paris-france-usa?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s Jeffrey Rathke and Boris Toucas’ commentary, “The American President in Paris: Trump and Macron Elevate Each Other’s Stature on Bastille Day (https://www.csis.org/analysis/american-president-paris-trump-and-macron-elevate-each-others-stature-bastille-day/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .”

** Gulf Crisis
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson left Doha for home on Thursday after an unexpected return to Qatar, extending his tour of the crisis-embroiled Gulf as the standoff between the gas-rich nation and the Saudi-led quartet showed no signs of abating, as CNN’s Tamara Qiblawi reports (http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/13/middleeast/tillerson-gulf-crisis/index.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See “Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and the New ‘Game of Thrones’ (https://www.csis.org/analysis/saudi-arabia-uae-qatar-and-new-game-thrones/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) ” by CSIS’s Anthony H. Cordesman.

** Nobel Laureate Dies in Chinese Custody
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Nobel Peace laureate Liu Xiaobo, who embodied the hopes of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement long after the protests were crushed, died in detention on Thursday after a battle with liver cancer, according to a government statement. He was 61 years old, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Josh Chin reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/nobel-laureate-liu-xiaobo-who-fought-for-democracy-in-china-dies-at-61-1499953234?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** 40
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The number of cease-fire recommitments in the past three years since the signing of the Minsk Protocol between Russia and Ukraine.

Source: U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) (https://osce.usmission.gov/on-russias-ongoing-violations-in-ukraine-8/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “Iran does not so much project power, it exploits Arab divisions and weaknesses.”
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—CSIS’s Anthony H. Cordesman authored a new commentary today, “Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and the New ‘Game of Thrones.’ (https://www.csis.org/analysis/saudi-arabia-uae-qatar-and-new-game-thrones?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) ”

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
In March, CSIS published Recalibrating U.S. Strategy toward Russia, a major report that provides policymakers with a clearer understanding of Russia’s strategic motivations and objectives and offers a framework for a comprehensive strategy toward Russia. You can download the report here (https://csis-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/170329_Hicks_USStrategyTowardRussia_AbridgedVersion_Web.pdf?OeWruRlJbYWKAnYGSE_4jm1CFT006UIZ&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

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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Die Welt (Photo Credit: IAN LANGSDON/AFP/Getty Images.)
President Donald Trump and President Emmanuel Macron of France during a welcome ceremony at Les Invalides today in Paris.

** Recommended Reading
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The July/August issue of the
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists digital journal explores “After midnight (http://thebulletin.org/press-release/after-midnight-julyaugust-issue-available10924?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) ,” an unsparing look at the aftermath of the use of nuclear weapons.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the U.S. Institute of Peace at 10:00 a.m. for “How to Stabilize Iraq After ISIS—and Why it Matters (https://www.usip.org/events/how-stabilize-iraq-after-isis-and-why-it-matters?wc_success=1&webform_id=how_to_stabilize_iraq_after_isis&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .”

Join the Wilson Center at 2:00 p.m. for a discussion on sustainable development within maternal health, women’s empowerment, and gender equality programs (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/maternal-and-womens-health-two-years-measuring-progress-towards-meeting-the-sdgs?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

** On Demand
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Today, CSIS hosted “Cross-Strait Relations Re-examined: Toward a New Normal? (https://www.csis.org/events/cross-strait-relations-re-examined-toward-new-normal?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) ”

** Sounds
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Yesterday on “About the News,” Ezra Klein and Bob Schieffer discussed the Trump Jr. “scandal,” what “collusion” means, and what Klein calls “a dark time” in Washington.

Listen to this week’s episode on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/state-of-journalism/id1124101295?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/ezra-klein-collusion-is-likely?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) .

** Smiles
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The Emmy nominations came out today and, shock, HBO leads with 111 nominations. One of those nominations is the masterpiece mini-series “Big Little Lies” starring Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Kravitz, and Laura Dern among others. I was memorized by this show. In my view “Big Little Lies” and another HBO nominee for Best Limited Series “The Night Of” were the best two pieces of visual content of the year—far better than anything I saw in the movies.

And these shows have captured the cultural zeitgeist in a way that “Manchester By the Sea,” “Moonlight,” or even “La La Land” haven’t. It’s stunning how the culture has changed—most people don’t enjoy going to the movies anymore. I still do, but I’m rarely transported in the theater the way I am when watching “Big Little Lies,” “The Night Of,” or “Game of Thrones,” “Ray Donovan,” “Girls,” and “Black Sails.” I miss the days when going to the movies was a big deal. But thankfully, American television is currently transformational. Now if rock and roll could just make a comeback…

Speaking of rock…the “Big Little Lies” soundtrack is off the charts. Somehow, they seamlessly melded contemporary music like the Alabama Shakes, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Michael Kiwanuka with the Temptations, Neil Young, and Fleetwood Mac. It’s brilliant, and the soundtrack is set against the beauty of Monterrey’s coastline to make for a truly cinematic, big budget film experience—even though it’s not on the big screen.

I won’t spoil it for anyone who hasn’t yet watched “Big Little Lies,” (we do live in a video on demand world), but the use of Fleetwood Mac’s monster 1977 hit “Dreams (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27e5H5ZZvS8&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=dacf20f881-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_13&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-dacf20f881-145367789) ” is really cool. Like Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham cool.
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