Good Evening,
It's Tuesday, February 2nd. |
Biden Urges Senate Dems to Go Big
President Biden urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to go big on coronavirus relief, making an aggressive case in favor of his $1.9 trillion rescue package as Democrats took the first steps to advance the legislation, as the Washington Post reports. |
Expected Boost in Vaccine Manufacturing
On Tuesday, Jeffrey D. Zients, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, said that the federal government would allocate a minimum of 10.5 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to states for the next three weeks, a bump of five percent resulting from an expected increase in manufacturing, as the NYT reports. |
Navalny Sentenced
A Russian court sentenced Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to 3½ years in prison, but gave credit for about a year already served, sidelining the country’s most prominent opposition politician and likely fueling a burgeoning protest movement triggered by his detention last month as the WSJ reports. |
Executive Education
CSIS is now accepting applications for the Spring 2021 Belt and Road Executive Course. Drawing insights from leading experts and the CSIS Reconnecting Asia Project, this course reveals how China's $1 trillion foreign policy effort is impacting commercial and strategic realities on the ground. |
Global Forecast 2021
 Global Forecast is an annual collection of essays by CSIS experts focused on the critical issues facing the United States and the world in the year ahead. The latest papers examine a new grand strategy and combatting the United States' domestic turmoil. |
Coronavirus Crisis Update
The Coronavirus Crisis Update podcast brings you the latest updates and analysis from CSIS experts and the leaders directing the global response. Past guests include NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain, IHME Director Dr. Chris Murray, Covid-19 Advisory Group members Dr. Luciana Borio and Dr. Celine Gounder, chef Jose Andres, and more. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify. |
Video Shorts
Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel! |
In That Number
1 million
The federal government will send one million vaccine doses to about 6,500 retail pharmacies on Feb. 11, the beginning of a federal program that will deliver vaccines directly to as many as 40,000 drugstores and grocery stores.
Source: NYT |
Critical Quote
"Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country."
— Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) |
iDeas Lab
The CSIS Trade Commission on Affirming American Leadership has released an interactive microsite that provides a series of recommendations on workforce development, innovation, and international trade to revitalize and affirm U.S. global leadership.
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: Kirill KuDdryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images.) Law enforcement officers block Moscow's Manezhnaya Square on February 2, 2021 as a Moscow court granted a prosecutors' request for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole. |
Recommended Reading
“Toward a New Global Trade Framework,” the final report by the CSIS Trade Commission on Affirming American Leadership. |
This Town Tomorrow
Tomorrow, at 9:30 a.m., the CSIS Korea Chair will host a discussion on the new Biden administration, as well as U.S. relations with the two Koreas and Japan.
Then, at 10:00 a.m., the Wilson Center's 2020 China Fellows will publicly present and debate their findings on topics ranging from international security to the environment.
Also, at noon, the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab and GeoTech Center will host the latest episode of "GeoTech Hour," where they will discuss the impacts of tech on propagating misinformation and the influence of geopolitics on the virality of misinformation amid our tech-enabled world. |
Video
Yesterday, the CSIS Commission on Strengthening America’s Health Security hosted a timely exchange on the swift global emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants and their impact on both the domestic and global Covid-19 response. Watch the video here. |
Podcasts
Writer and policy researcher James Piltch joined the podcast to talk about his new piece for Politico Magazine “Democrats Have a Values Problem. But Here’s How They Can Fix It."
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
"It’s got to get better in a little while."
I would really like the pandemic to be over so that I can go see Eric Clapton perform live again…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFo-Clq844. |
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