The Evening: Cease-Fire Approved, NK Weapons, Déjà vu and More
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** Good Evening,
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It's Thursday, May 20th.
** Cease-Fire Approved
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Israel’s cabinet approved a cease-fire with Palestinian militant group Hamas late on Thursday. The cabinet voted to accept an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire that will be bilateral and without any conditions. And, as the
WSJ reports ([link removed]) , Hamas leader Osama Hamdan confirmed the cease-fire and said it would begin at 2 a.m. local time.
** NK Weapons Program
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The staying power of Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal as shown in new thermal infrared imagery analyzed by CSIS, highlights an uncomfortable truth as President Biden prepares to greet President Moon Jae-in of South Korea at the White House on Friday, as the
NYT reports ([link removed]) .
Dive Deeper: “Thermal Imagery Indicates Activity at Yongbyon Nuclear Reprocessing Facilities ([link removed]) ,” by CSIS’s Joseph Bermudez, Victor Cha, Andy Dinville and Dana Kim.
“The Biden-Moon Summit: Rejuvenating and Modernizing the Alliance ([link removed]) ,” by CSIS’s Victor Cha.
** EU Agrees on Covid-19 Certificates
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European policymakers struck a deal Thursday to sweep away travel barriers among European countries through a digital certificate system, another step toward normalizing global movement, as the
Washington Post reports ([link removed]) .
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** In That Number
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** 40.5 Million
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Storms, floods, wildfires—and to a lesser degree, conflict—uprooted 40.5 million people globally in 2020, the largest human displacement in more than a decade.
Source: NYT ([link removed])
** Critical Quote
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** “Every time we’re silent, every time we let hate flourish, we make a lie of who we are as a nation.”
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— President Joe Biden, as he signed into law a bill to expedite ([link removed]) a review of pandemic-related hate crimes, with an emphasis on an increase in attacks targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
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** Optics
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(Photo credit: Amir Levy/Getty Images.) Artillery unit soldiers kneel after hearing a siren warning of rocket fire from Gaza.
** Recommended Reading
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“The Biden-Moon Summit: Rejuvenating and Modernizing the Alliance ([link removed]) ,” by CSIS’s Victor Cha.
** This Town Tomorrow
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Tomorrow, at 10:00 a.m. ([link removed]) , the CSIS Missile Defense Project hosts Lieutenant General Daniel Karbler for a conversation on the U.S. Army's space and integrated air and missile defense plans.
Also, at 10:00 a.m. ([link removed]) , the Hudson Institute holds a webinar to discuss the outbreak of hostilities in Gaza and U.S.-Israeli relations in the Biden era, featuring former ambassador of Israel to the United States Ron Dermer.
And, at 12:00 p.m. ([link removed]) , the Woodrow Wilson Center hosts a panel of experts for a discussion of Nicaragua's November elections and prospects for democracy in the country.
** Video
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The CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies today hosted Representative Andy Kim (D-NJ) and a panel of experts for a discussion of the role of human capital in U.S.-China relations. Watch the full video here ([link removed]) .
** Podcasts
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Die Welt On today's timely episode of the Impossible State, Victor Cha, Sue Mi Terry, and I discuss tomorrow's meeting of U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean president Moon Jae-in, the first summit meeting between the two leaders.
Listen on Spotify ([link removed]) , Google Play ([link removed]) , & Apple Podcasts ([link removed]) .
** Smiles
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CSNY’s 50th anniversary edition of “Déjà vu” and its 11 outtakes, alternate cuts and previously unreleased demos reveal a band at their peak. The best material comes from Stephen Stills and David Crosby who wrote brilliant songs that never made the original album. Outtakes such as “Ivory Tower,” “Know You Got to Run,” and “Laughing,” to name a few, could have been CSNY standards had they been released along with the original material.
Crosby would go on to issue a version of “Laughing” on his first solo record released in ’71,“If I Could Only Remember My Name,” featuring Jerry Garcia on pedal steel. Until this week, that was the only version of “Laughing” that most of us ever heard. But this stripped down version ([link removed]) of “Laughing” on the 50th anniversary edition of “Déjà vu” begs the question: How could a song so beautiful have been left off of the original CSNY album?
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