Subject: The Evening: Catalonia, ISIS Regrouping, Doing it Right and More
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 21:34:48 +0000
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The Evening: Catalonia, ISIS Regrouping, Doing it Right and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Monday, October 30th.

** Separatists in Catalonia Charged
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Spanish authorities charged at least 20 separatist leaders in Catalonia with rebellion and sedition on Monday, in a crackdown that aimed to crush the independence movement on the first business day after regional leaders declared their freedom from Madrid, as the
Washington Post’s Michael Birnbaum reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/catalonias-fired-leaders-show-up-to-work-at-least-for-a-little-while/2017/10/30/9a33976c-bcf6-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.e9b24dd82863&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

And, as the FT’s Michael Stothard reports (https://www.ft.com/content/e36a8ab4-bd53-11e7-b8a3-38a6e068f464?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) , Madrid reasserted control on Monday over Catalonia, taking over the police and government ministries with ease.

** Every Man A King
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Just days after being likened to a king by President Trump, President Xi Jinping of China on Monday reiterated his commitment to reform while holding court before a group of wealthy and influential business leaders from his country and the United States. Xi, speaking at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing during an event shown on national television, addressed topics such as globalization, innovation, and China’s relationship with the United States to a gathering of executives that included Tim Cook, chief executive of Apple; Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of the Blackstone Group; and Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, as the
New York Times’ Paul Mozur and Chris Buckley report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/business/xi-jinping-american-executives.html?_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See “Cyber Policy and the 19th Party Congress (https://www.csis.org/analysis/cyber-policy-and-19th-party-congress?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) ,” a new CSIS Critical Questions by CSIS’s Samm Sacks.

** ISIS Regrouping in Syria
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ISIS militants, routed from one urban stronghold after another in Syria, have recently been moving deeper into Syria’s remote desert, where experts say they are regrouping and preparing their next incarnation, as the AP’s Bassem Mroue reports (https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/1030/Moving-deeper-into-Syria-s-desert-ISIS-appears-to-be-regrouping?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See “Allies and Influence (https://www.csis.org/analysis/allies-and-influence/?block4&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) ,” a new commentary by CSIS’s Jon Alterman.

** Next Fed Chairman
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President Trump is expected to name Jerome H. Powell as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve, replacing Janet Yellen, as the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Binyamin Appelbaum report (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/politics/trump-fed-jerome-powell.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See the CFR Backgrounder “The Role of the Federal Reserve (https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/role-us-federal-reserve?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .”

** In That Number
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** 98%
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Kenya’s incumbent president, Uhuru Kenyatta, won 98 percent of the vote in a repeated election in which an opposition boycott helped lower turnout to 39 percent.
Source: Reuters (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-kenya-election-kenyatta/kenyan-president-kenyatta-wins-98-percent-of-vote-in-repeat-election-idUSKBN1CZ1SE?il=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “What I really think is that nobody is in charge right now.”
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—Christina Guillen, Barcelona resident (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/catalans-return-to-work-after-spain-takes-charge-of-region/2017/10/30/dbdee5d4-bd52-11e7-9294-705f80164f6e_story.html?utm_term=.e394fad5affe&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
The CSIS Americas Program recently launched a new podcast, “35 West (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/35-west?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) ,” for the latest on the political, economic, and security challenges in the Western Hemisphere.

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: Jack Taylor/Getty Images.) Protesters during a pro-unity demonstration on Sunday in Barcelona.

** Recommended Reading
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“Google’s Dominance in Washington Faces a Reckoning (https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-dominance-in-washington-faces-a-reckoning-1509379625?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) ,” by the
WSJ’s John McKinnon and Brody Mullins.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the CSIS Project on Prosperity and Development at 10:00 a.m. for a discussion on U.S. State Department and USAID reorganization (https://www.csis.org/events/consensus-view-state-department-and-usaid-reorganization?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

At 10:30 a.m., Yong-ho Thae, former deputy chief of mission at the Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the United Kingdom, will join CSIS to discuss the current situation in North Korea. Watch live on our website (https://www.csis.org/events/beyond-nuclear-diplomacy-regime-insiders-look-north-korea?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

Join the Heritage Foundation at 12:00 p.m. for a panel discussion on the state of the press today (http://www.heritage.org/the-constitution/event/the-state-the-press-today-whose-interests-does-it-serve?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

** Video
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Today, CSIS launched a new center-wide initiative called the Humanitarian Agenda. The launch event (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za1IyCODWVU&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) featured a discussion on evolving trends and opportunities for fresh policy solutions in humanitarian assistance.

** Sounds
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The latest episode of Energy360 discusses oil’s role in the uncertain political future of the Iraqi state and the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government.

Listen on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/iraq-kurdistan-energy-and-geopolitics?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) or Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/energy-360/id1227481277?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .

** Smiles
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In this space, I love to discuss rock and roll culture. I’m convinced that rock is essential to America’s popular culture and always will be. Sure, rap, pop and all sorts of music that is au currant may rule the airwaves these days. And yes, there hasn’t been a sustained decade of rock and roll innovation since the 90s. But the trend in which many American critics are quick to declare rock’s demise is overblown.

Watch just about any hit premium television show—they are chock full of rock and roll, and not just of the classic variety. Take Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” a contemporary gangster genre masterpiece—especially this season (Season 5). A couple of weeks ago episode 10 of season 5 closed with a tune by a Denver band, the Yawpers, called “Doing it Right (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-OEC9CgAJs&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e509ac03ec-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e509ac03ec-145367789) .” Now this tune by the Yawpers is rockin’.
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