Subject: The Evening: Syria, Trade War, Shelter From the Storm and More
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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 22:01:06 +0000
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The Evening: Syria, Trade War, Shelter From the Storm and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Wednesday, April 4th.

** Syria Situation
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The White House said today that the United States is committed to continuing to fighting ISIS in Syria, signaling a retreat by President Trump from his insistence that the 2,000 American forces there quickly return home from the conflict, as the
New York Times’ Julie Hirshfeld Davis reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/world/middleeast/trump-syria-troops.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

Meanwhile, the leaders of Iran, Russia and Turkey met today for high-level talks on ending the Syrian war, cementing their influence on the outcome of the conflict and isolating the United States from the region’s most crucial diplomacy, as the Washington Post reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iran-russia-and-turkey-meet-over-syrias-future-as-trump-mulls-troop-withdrawal/2018/04/04/c607e27c-3770-11e8-af3c-2123715f78df_story.html?utm_term=.1dd374fdd0c3&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “Taking All the Wrong Steps in Syria, Iraq, and the Fight Against Terrorism (https://www.csis.org/analysis/taking-all-wrong-steps-syria-iraq-and-fight-against-terrorism?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) ,” by CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman.

Al Qaeda’s Struggling Campaign in Syria (https://www.csis.org/analysis/al-qaedas-struggling-campaign-syria?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) , by CSIS’s Seth Jones, Charles Vallee and Max Markusen.

** Tariff Showdown
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The Trump administration’s showdown with Beijing over potential tariffs has ushered in a high-stakes standoff over the future of trade between the world’s two largest economies, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Josh Zumbrun, Siobhan Hughes and William Mauldin report (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tariff-showdown-shifts-to-intense-negotiation-period-1522872439?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “Trump and Xi Agree: Short-Term Gain for Long-Term Pain (https://www.cfr.org/blog/trump-and-xi-agree-short-term-gain-long-term-pain?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) ,” by CFR’s Elizabeth C. Economy.

** Iran’s Supreme Leader on Negotiating with Israel
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Any move to negotiate with Israel would be an “unforgivable mistake”, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said today, after Saudi Arabia’s crown prince said Israelis were entitled to live peacefully on their own land, as Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iran-israel-saudi-arab/negotiating-with-israel-would-be-big-mistake-irans-supreme-leader-idUSKCN1HB2NM?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

** Russia’s Missile Testing
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Russia began testing missiles with live munitions in the Baltic Sea on Wednesday, forcing countries to shut down airspace and alter sea traffic routes, as Defense News’s Daniel Cebul reports (https://www.defensenews.com/global/2018/04/04/russia-tests-missiles-in-baltic-sea-forcing-partial-closing-of-sea-and-airspace/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789#.WsUbSyMBHaI.twitter) .

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** Executive M.A. from CSIS/Syracuse U
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** In That Number
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** 106
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China responded to President Trump’s new tariffs by threatening its own import taxes on 106 U.S. products.
Source: Xinhua (http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/04/c_137088112.htm?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “This is a game of chicken, with both sides seeing the other as the bigger chicken.”
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—CSIS’s Scott Kennedy on U.S. trade with China (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-04/trump-xi-wait-to-see-who-blinks-first-as-trade-fight-heats-up?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
“The big numbers being floated for President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy effort, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), do not add up,” writes CSIS's Jon Hillman in a new commentary (https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-big-chinas-belt-and-road?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-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: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) The sun rises at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the 50th anniversary of King's assassination this morning in Washington.

** Recommended Reading
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“Facebook said the personal data of most of its 2 billion users has been collected and shared with outsiders (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/04/facebook-said-the-personal-data-of-most-its-2-billion-users-has-been-collected-and-shared-with-outsiders/?utm_term=.db0a1484eb86&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) ,” by the
Washington Post’s Craig Timberg, Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS at 2:00 p.m. for a conversation on the humanitarian crisis in Yemen (https://www.csis.org/events/humanitarian-crisis-yemen-0?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) , featuring a keynote address from David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.

At 10:00 a.m., join Brookings for a discussion on technology transfer (https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-economic-political-and-security-implications-of-technology-transfer/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) , as well as national security risks and challenges that accompany innovation.

** Video
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Today CSIS’s Aerospace Security Project are hosting a book event with the
Washington Post's Christian Davenport, author of The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. Watch the full discussion here (https://www.csis.org/events/quest-colonize-cosmos-how-billionaires-are-changing-space-industry?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

** Sounds
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On this week's episode of Smart Women, Smart Power, Kate Germano, retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel, and award-winning journalist Kelly Kennedy, discuss their new book:
Fight Like a Girl: The Truth Behind How Female Marines are Trained.

Listen on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart-women-smart-power/id924940383?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/fight-like-a-girl?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) .

** Smiles
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It’s hard to smile on April 4. It’s the day MLK was assassinated, 50 years ago today. But on days like these instead of being sad, I choose to focus on the monumental gifts that MLK gave to the United States and the world. This clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rUOLtbQDk&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=fbe180bc8c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-fbe180bc8c-145367789) of Bob Dylan in 1976 strikes me as an especially powerful smile today.
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