Subject: The Evening: Juncker Partner, Pompeo on the Hill, Taj Mahal and More
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The Evening: Juncker Partner, Pompeo on the Hill, Taj Mahal and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Wednesday, July 25th.

** Juncker Partner
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After meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker today at the White House, President Trump declared a “new phase” in the relationship between the U.S. and the European Union, agreeing to hold off on proposed car tariffs and work with the EU to resolve their dispute over metals duties, while also promoting bilateral trade, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Rebecca Ballhaus reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/ahead-of-eu-meeting-trump-rails-at-domestic-critics-1532524795?mod=hp_lead_pos1&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Following his meeting at the White House, Juncker delivered an address at CSIS. His remarks can be viewed On Demand (https://www.csis.org/events/conversation-with-european-commission-president-jean-claude-juncker?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

And, listen to a new episode of the CSIS podcast, “The Trade Guys (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trade-guys/id1380336613?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) ,” which discusses auto tariffs.

** ISIS Attack in Syria
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ISIS killed more than 200 people in a coordinated assault on a government-held area of southwestern Syria today in the group’s deadliest attack in the country for years, as Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-attack/islamic-state-kills-215-in-southwest-syria-attacks-local-official-idUSKBN1KF0DG?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “The Syrian War Is Over, and America Lost (https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/07/23/the-syrian-war-is-over-and-america-lost/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) ,” by CFR’s Steven Cook for Foreign Policy.

“Developing a Containment Strategy in Syria (https://www.csis.org/analysis/developing-containment-strategy-syria?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) ,” by CSIS’s Seth Jones.

** Pompeo Testifies on Capitol Hill
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo offered Congress what he called “proof” today that President Trump is willing to hold Russia accountable for its malign activities, including interfering in American elections and misbehavior around the world, as the
New York Times’ Julie Hirshfeld Davis and Thomas Kaplan report (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/us/politics/senate-pompeo-trump-putin-north-korea.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

And, as Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa/patient-north-korea-diplomacy-wont-drag-out-to-no-end-pompeo-idUSKBN1KF2QT?il=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) , Pompeo told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U.S. is engaged in patient diplomacy to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons but will not let the process “drag out to no end.”

Dive Deeper: Listen to a new episode of CSIS’s “Impossible State (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-impossible-state/id1389951701?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) ” podcast featuring Victor Cha, Sue Mi Terry and the Wall Street Journal’s Seoul Bureau Chief, Jonathan Cheng.

** Putin Postponed
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A second bilateral meeting between US president Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this autumn has been delayed until next year, as the FT’s Katrina Manson and Mamta Badkar report (https://www.ft.com/content/9933a8be-903d-11e8-bb8f-a6a2f7bca546?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

** Encryption and Law Enforcement
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The major problem law enforcement faces in obtaining digital evidence is not the encryption of devices but figuring out which company holds the relevant data and how to get it, according to a study released today by CSIS, as the Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/encryption-law-enforcements-biggest-obstacle-to-digital-evidence-is-more-basic-study-finds/2018/07/24/32bcbc40-8e19-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html?utm_term=.60794e6ef73f&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence-Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge (https://www.csis.org/analysis/low-hanging-fruit-evidence-based-solutions-digital-evidence-challenge?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) , by CSIS’s William Carter, Jennifer Daskal and William Crumpler.

** Your Questions
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Do you have any questions about trade and how a changing U.S. trade policy may affect your life? If you do, please email me your question(s) to [email-masked] (mailto:[email-masked]?subject=Your%20Questions) . We’ll publish some of the best questions and get our experts to answer them on an upcoming CSIS podcast.

** Enroll for Fall
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Now enrolling for the Fall, CSIS & Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs offer a new Executive Master's in International Relations. Information here (https://www.csis.org/programs/abshire-inamori-leadership-academy/executive-education/executive-masters-international?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

** In That Number
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** 130,000
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Last year, there were more than 130,000 requests for digital evidence by law enforcement to just six tech companies — Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Oath (formerly Yahoo) and Apple, compared to about 88,000 such requests to those six companies in 2014.
Source: CSIS’s new report, Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence-Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge (https://www.csis.org/analysis/low-hanging-fruit-evidence-based-solutions-digital-evidence-challenge?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

** Critical Quote
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** “What you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”
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—President Trump

** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
See a new CSIS report released today, Low-Hanging Fruit: Evidence-Based Solutions to the Digital Evidence Challenge (https://www.csis.org/analysis/low-hanging-fruit-evidence-based-solutions-digital-evidence-challenge?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) , by CSIS’s William Carter, Jennifer Daskal and William Crumpler.

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 Dietsch/Pool via Bloomberg.) President Trump with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker today at the White House.

** Recommended Reading
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“Khamenei adviser’s Moscow visit stirs foreign policy debate in Iran (http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2018/07/iran-velayati-moscow-visit-zarif-debate-russia-transparency.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789#ixzz5MHwjv13y) ,” by Ehsan Bodaghi for Al-Monitor.

** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS at 9:00 a.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/eighth-annual-south-china-sea-conference?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) for the eighth annual South China Sea Conference,  featuring discussion and analysis of developments in the South China Sea over the past year and potential paths forward.

At 9:00 a.m. (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/fighting-impunity-and-corruption-el-salvador-conversation-attorney-general-douglas-melendez?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) , the Wilson Center will host a conversation on efforts to fight corruption among government officials in El Salvador.

** Video
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The European Union and the United States have shared a critical partnership for decades based on shared values and prosperity. Today, CSIS hosted a conversation with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, who shared his vision of the future of Europe and transatlantic relations in a changing world. Watch the full event here. (https://www.csis.org/events/conversation-with-european-commission-president-jean-claude-juncker?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789)

** Sounds
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On the latest episode of The Trade Guys, Scott Miller and Andrew Schwartz discuss whether President Trump’s latest tweet “Tariffs are the greatest!” is a harbinger of the president’s latest plan to slap 25 percent tariffs on foreign autos and auto parts as the administration makes the argument that auto imports may be a threat to national security.

Listen on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trade-guys/id1380336613?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/are-tariffs-the-greatest?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789) .

** Smiles
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Some of you wanted to see the great Taj Mahal as he was back in the day. I do take requests so here you are, Tom. Same song (“Leavin’ Trunk”) as we played yesterday where Taj was with the Tedeschi Trucks Band but this time it’s a 1968 performance taken from the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus. What a smile! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpEemZbXkA&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=e2762dac77-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_25_08_53&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-e2762dac77-145367789)
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