Arctic snow and sea ice cover has decreased by approximately 13% every decade since the 1970s.

SOURCE: "UN Report Paints a Bleak Outlook for the World’s Oceans and Coastal Areas," by CSIS's Whitley Saumweber and Sarah Ladislaw. 

Over three-quarters of the $660 billion in two-way goods traded between the United States and China is now subject to tariffs. 

SOURCE: "Beyond the Brink: Escalation and Conflict in U.S.-China Economic Relations," by CSIS's Matthew Goodman, Bill Reinsch, and Scott Kennedy.

The proposed FY 2020 defense budget rises 4.9% above the FY 2019 level and continues a five-year streak of increases.

SOURCE: "U.S. Military Forces in FY 2020: The Struggle to Align Forces with Strategy," by CSIS's Mark Cancian. 

The U.S. and Japan have announced a bilateral trade agreement which would gradually lower Japanese tariffs and quotas on approximately $7 billion of U.S. agricultural products.

SOURCE: "The U.S.-Japan Trade Deal," by CSIS's Matthew Goodman, Dylan Gerstel, Nicholas Szechenyi, and Mike Green.