Subject: The Evening: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia Vetoes, Greta Van Fleet and More
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The Evening: Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russia Vetoes, Greta Van Fleet and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Tuesday, October 24th.

** China Enshrines Xi Jinping
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The Chinese Communist Party wrote Xi Jinping’s name and ideas into its constitution on Tuesday, elevating him at the end of his first five-year term to the same exalted status as the nation’s founding father, Mao Zedong, as Chris Buckley of
NYT reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/world/asia/china-xi-jinping-constitution.html?_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Freeman Chair in China Studies has a commentary: “Xi’s Signature Governance Innovation: The Rise of Leading Small Groups (https://www.csis.org/analysis/xis-signature-governance-innovation-rise-leading-small-groups?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .”

And, see a collection of essays (https://www.csis.org/analysis/parallel-perspectives-global-economic-order?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) from CSIS’s Simon Chair in Political Economy on the United States, China, and the future of the global economic order.

** Tillerson Urges Pakistan Crackdown
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The United States pressed Pakistan for the elimination of havens for militants within its territory, according to U.S. and Pakistani officials, in a meeting Tuesday between Pakistani leadership and visiting Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, as Saeed Shah of
WSJ reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/secretary-tillerson-urges-pakistan-crackdown-on-militant-havens-1508869399?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** Russia Vetoes
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Russia used its veto power in the UN Security Council on Tuesday to block an extension of efforts by international inspectors to determine who was behind chemical weapons attacks that have killed scores of Syrian civilians, as Louisa Loveluck of the
Washington Post reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/russia-vetoes-un-resolution-to-continue-syria-chemical-weapons-investigation/2017/10/24/63e52470-b8c6-11e7-9b93-b97043e57a22_story.html?utm_term=.809ccb3a1019&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** $500 Billion
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Saudi Arabia today announced a $500 billion plan to build a business and industrial zone extending into Jordan and Egypt.
Source: Reuters (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-economy-city/saudi-arabia-seeks-new-economy-with-500-billion-business-zone-with-jordan-egypt-idUKKBN1CT1BM?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “We are committed in the war against terror. We have produced results.”
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—Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi of Pakistan
Source: Reuters (https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-tillerson-asia/pakistan-pm-tells-tillerson-it-has-produced-results-in-fighting-terrorism-idUKKBN1CT1X9?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
“Violent Extremism in the Sahel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHTCTD29T8&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) ” is a CSIS original video on the extremist organizations in the Sahel and West Africa that are working to destabilize the region.

Dive Deeper: Read the accompanying report, Militancy and the Arc of Instability (https://www.csis.org/analysis/militancy-and-arc-instability?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) , from CSIS’s Africa Program and Transnational Threats Project.

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: Kevin Midigo/AFP/Getty Images.) Protesters associated with Kenya’s opposition coalition, the National Super Alliance (NASA), take to the streets of Kisumu, Kenya, on October 24 in an attempt to boycott Friday’s rerun elections.

** Recommended Reading
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“Russia State News Outlet RT Thrives on YouTube, Facebook (https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-state-news-outlet-rt-thrives-on-youtube-facebook-1508808937?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) ,” by
WSJ’s Jack Nicas.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS at 8:30 a.m. for “Ending Modern Slavery (https://www.csis.org/events/ending-modern-slavery?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) ,” a discussion featuring Senator Bob Corker (R-TN).

At 9:15 a.m., join CSIS for a discussion on senior leadership and diversity within the U.S. government (https://www.csis.org/events/transformational-leadership-international-affairs?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789)  featuring a keynote by Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD).

And, at 5:00 p.m., join the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies for the launch of Michael Fabey’s book, Crashback: The Power Clash Between the US and China in the Pacific (https://www.csis.org/events/book-launch-crashback-power-clash-between-us-and-china-pacific?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** Video
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The CSIS Project on Military and Diplomatic History hosted a talk on the history of foreign interference in American elections (https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1729&v=eIRSbXfWEeM&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** Sounds
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The latest episode of Russian Roulette tackles the nature of  “Putinomics,” explores the Russian economy’s inability to reform, and contrasts the economic paths of Russia and China.

Listen on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/russian-roulette/id1112258664?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/of-putinomics-democratization?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .

** Smiles
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“I’m heartened to see these young bands — because there ain’t nothing like a good Rock and Roll band, people .”
Tom Petty, February 10, 2017

Just when you think rock is dead, something, someone, somewhere emerges to provide a glimmer of hope. And from the small town of Frankenmuth, Michigan (pop. 5,131) comes a band of brothers and their good friend the drummer from down around the corner, all under the age of 21 called “Greta Van Fleet.”

Greta Van Fleet is overtly Led Zeppelin-esque. Stunningly so.

The late, legendary Memphis producer/musician Jim Dickinson once told me “not everyone can write songs like Bob Dylan, and not everyone should try to. Instead, they should just play like their favorite bands and see where it goes.”

That’s exactly what Greta Van Fleet does. And it’s pretty dag gone refreshing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXdM1rqSlSQ&feature=youtu.be&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=06d8406209-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-06d8406209-145367789) .
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