Arab Peace Proposal

Arab countries are working on a proposal for postwar Gaza that would create a pathway toward a Palestinian state in exchange for Saudi recognition of Israel, as the WSJ reports.

Russia’s North Korean Arms

Russians are beginning to deploy North Korean arms on the battlefield in Ukraine, deeply worrying U.S. and European officials who say they fear the North’s ammunition could prove important on the battlefield at a huge moment of vulnerability for Ukraine, as the NYT reports.

Iran Directly Involved with Houthi Attacks

Iran is “very directly involved” in ship attacks that Yemen’s Houthi rebels have carried out during Israel’s war against Hamas, the U.S. Navy’s top Mideast commander told the AP.

Executive Education

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Audio Briefs

CSIS experts give short, spoken-word summaries on the biggest takeaways from their latest reports, white papers, and commentaries—in their own words.

Listen here: "Security in the Western Pacific: Building Future Capabilities in the Time of AUKUS" with CSIS's Mark F. Cancian.

In That Number

$30 billion

U.S. and EU funding was expected to cover $30 billion of Ukraine's financial shortfall this year, but pledges from both have been upended by infighting in Washington and Brussels.
Source: WSJ

Critical Quote

“Clearly, the Houthi actions, probably in terms of their attacks on merchant shipping, are the most significant that we’ve seen in two generations…Iran is clearly funding, they’re resourcing, they are supplying and they’re providing training. They’re obviously very directly involved. There’s no secret there.”

—U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of the Navy's 5th Fleet

iDeas Lab

A majority of both U.S. and Taiwan experts assessed that a crisis in the Taiwan Strait is either likely or very likely in 2024. Taiwan experts appeared to assess a crisis as slightly less likely than U.S. experts did, but the difference was not significant. Read the full CSIS report.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images.) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi greets children during his visit to a school operating in an underground subway passage in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Monday, January 22, 2024.

This Town Tomorrow

At 9:30 a.m., the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program discusses the global LNG landscape and the role of the United States as a major exporter.

Also at 9:30 a.m., the CSIS Southeast Asia Program begins a U.S.-Vietnam Conference on key issues related to the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Strategic Partnership featuring a keynote address from Senator Jeff Merkley.

Then, at 1:30 p.m., the CSIS Global Health Policy Center unpacks the gaps in measles immunization coverage, as well as opportunities to halt outbreaks and reignite progress toward measles elimination.

Video

Today, Palestinian mental health professionals Rajiah Abu Sway and Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei discussed the mental health burden in Gaza in the latest episode of the “Gaza: The Human Toll” series. Watch the full video here.

Podcasts

This week, the Trade Guys discuss Chinese supply chain realignments, the U.S.-India Trade Policy Forum, and LNG exports.

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

If you haven’t seen what happened when Jimmy Fallon and Green Day hit the New York subway station last week, get ready—this is a beautiful smile.

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