Subject: The Evening: Xi Power, NK, Long Time Gone and More
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Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 22:38:29 +0000
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The Evening: Xi Power, NK, Long Time Gone and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Monday, February 26th.

** Xi Power
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China’s plan for President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely has sparked social media opposition, drawing comparisons to North Korea’s ruling dynasty and prompting a Hong Kong pro-democracy activist to accuse it of creating a dictator, as Reuters’ Ben Blanchard and Michael Martina report (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-politics/china-pushes-back-against-criticism-of-plan-for-xi-to-stay-in-power-idUSKCN1GA040?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Visit CSIS’s interactive micro website, “China Power (https://chinapower.csis.org/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .”

** North Korea
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President Trump today expressed a willingness to talk with North Korea, but “only under the right conditions," while warning that if Pyongyang doesn’t abandon its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, there could be a potentially tremendous “loss of lives, numbers that nobody’s ever contemplated, never thought of,” as VOA’s Steve Herman reports (https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-says-us-willing-to-talk-with-north-korea-under-right-conditions/4271352.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “A ‘bloody nose’ attack in Korea would have lasting consequences (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/02/26/a-bloody-nose-attack-in-korea-would-have-lasting-consequences/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) ,” by Brookings’ Michael O’Hanlon and James Kirchick.

** Putin Orders Pause in Syria
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Russia said today that it had ordered a daily five-hour truce for a rebel-held enclave outside Damascus, even as a more extensive cease-fire approved by the U.N. Security Council this weekend has failed to quiet Syria’s warring parties, as the
Washington Post’s Erin Cunningham reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/rebel-enclave-near-damascus-suffering-hell-on-earth-amid-attacks-un-chief-says/2018/02/26/3875a0ab-57ed-4b6b-826c-54b91eb0a2f8_story.html?utm_term=.f581a752336c&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “America's ‘Chaos Strategy’ in the Middle East and South Asia (https://www.csis.org/analysis/americas-chaos-strategy-middle-east-and-south-asia?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) ,” by CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman.

** Your Questions
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** Executive M.A. from CSIS/Syracuse U
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CSIS & Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs offer Executive Master's in International Relations. Information here (https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/dc/emir/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** $188.3 million
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The U.S. Army is asking for a total of $188.3 million in fiscal 2019 for counter-unmanned air systems in response to the threat of small unmanned aerial systems overseas.
Source: C4ISRNET (https://www.c4isrnet.com/smr/federal-budget/2018/02/21/small-drones-in-the-middle-east-have-become-a-330-million-problem/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “We want to talk only under the right conditions.”
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— President Donald Trump on talks with North Korea (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-u-s-meet-n-korea-conditions-article-1.3842818?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
The Trump administration has emphasized civil and commercial space as one of its top priorities with the reinstatement of the National Space Council, the signing of Space Policy Directive 1, and the recent National Security Strategy. View the CSIS Aerospace Security Project's new video (https://csis.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=833ec271d60c6750d9c3baaac&id=958dfcc938&e=cb41979614&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789)  on securing civil space for the United States' return to the moon.

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: Joe Raedle/Getty Images). David Wilford with his daughter, Maddy Wilford, after she spoke today to the media at Broward Health North after being shot multiple times during the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where she is a student.

** Recommended Reading
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“CSAF Predicts War In Space ‘In A Matter Of Years (https://breakingdefense.com/2018/02/csaf-predicts-war-in-space-in-a-matter-of-years/?utm_campaign=Boeing%20TX%20AFA%20Coverage&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60947792&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8q4H2mqEu6tY2gijICqdOD6Bd3ki8EsrJ8w0OL0dO18nuWHdzpxOuxCOMu9VVn31Kyp4iu_cfD9Scznc65t21YDIzn0A&_hsmi=60947792&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) ,’ (https://breakingdefense.com/2018/02/csaf-predicts-war-in-space-in-a-matter-of-years/?utm_campaign=Boeing%20TX%20AFA%20Coverage&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60947792&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8q4H2mqEu6tY2gijICqdOD6Bd3ki8EsrJ8w0OL0dO18nuWHdzpxOuxCOMu9VVn31Kyp4iu_cfD9Scznc65t21YDIzn0A&_hsmi=60947792&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) ” by Breaking Defense’s Colin Clark.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the CSIS Energy and National Security Program at 8:30 a.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/short-term-outlook-us-tight-oil-production?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) for a conference on the short-term outlook for U.S. tight oil production and its implications for global oil markets.

Join CSIS at 9 a.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/exit-interview-kenneth-wollack-president-national-democratic-institute?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) for an exit interview with Kenneth Wollack, President of the National Democratic Institute, with opening remarks by Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

And, at 5:00 p.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/road-not-taken-edward-lansdale-and-american-tragedy-vietnam?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) , join CSIS for the book launch of Max Boot’s The Road Not Taken.

** Video
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The global energy landscape is changing. Spencer Dale, chief economist of BP, spoke at CSIS today on the future of global energy consumption. Watch the discussion here (https://www.csis.org/events/bp-energy-outlook-2018?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

** Sounds
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On the latest ChinaPower Podcast episode, Dr. Marc Lanteigne discusses China’s increasing diplomatic and scientific activity in the Arctic, and the history of Chinese involvement in the region.

Listen here on SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/chinas-polar-push-a-conversation-with-marc-lanteigne?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) .

** Smiles
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In my view, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are one of the greatest live bands of all time. That’s not the first thing that comes to mind when most people think of the band. But if you’ve seen them perform or watched any of their performances on video, what I’m saying will resonate with you.

There’s a lot going on in a CSNY performance—extraordinary musicianship, showmanship and of course, astonishingly compelling vocals. Each member of the band is in his own way mesmerizing.

In this clip, CSNY add a special guest, Tom Jones, on lead vocals. I saw this clip of “Long Time Gone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIDzA0YDso8&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=ac625ac37b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-ac625ac37b-145367789) ” for the first time today and I can’t stop watching it. What a smile.
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