Good Evening,
It's Tuesday, September 28th. |
Pfizer May Not Be Cleared for Kids Until November
Regulatory clearance of the Pfizer vaccine for young children may not come until November, after the companies said they won’t ask for the green light for a few weeks, as the WSJ reports. |
Top DoD Officials Advised Against Afghanistan Withdrawal
Top U.S. military officers acknowledged publicly for the first time that they had advised President Biden not to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan ahead of the chaotic evacuation, as the NYT reports. |
Debt Limit Warning
Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen on Tuesday told Congress that the United States will run out of flexibility to avoid breaching the debt limit on Oct. 18, setting a new deadline for lawmakers. Hours after her warning, a Senate effort to suspend the debt ceiling failed, as The Washington Post reports.
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Executive Education
Apply now for a CSIS course on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The course draws insights from leading experts and the Reconnecting Asia Project and explains what the BRI is, what it is not, and how it is impacting commercial and strategic realities on the ground. |
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
$20 billion
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told Congress that the Treasury would be unable to pay all the government’s bills if lawmakers don’t raise the federal borrowing limit by Oct. 18. The U.S. faces an estimated $20 billion in Social Security payments on Oct. 20 along with around $6 billion in individual tax refunds.
Source: WSJ |
Critical Quote
“I firmly believe in civilian control of the military as a bedrock principle essential to this republic and I am committed to ensuring the military stays clear of domestic politics.”
— General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
iDeas Lab
In this episode of Afghanistan Aftershocks, CSIS's Stephen Morrison discusses the serious health challenges Afghanistan's new Taliban regime faces following the U.S. withdrawal.
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: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images.) U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Afghanistan, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on September 28, 2021. |
Recommended Reading
"Russia’s Climate Gamble" by CSIS'S Heather A. Conley, Colin Wall, Andrew Lohsen, Nikos Tsafos, Ben Cahill, and former CSIS Associate Fellow Cyrus Newlin. |
This Town Tomorrow
At 9:30 a.m., join the CSIS Korea Chair for a conversation with Sydney Seiler, the National Intelligence Officer for North Korea at the National Intelligence Council, on recent developments on the Korean Peninsula.
Later, at 3:00 p.m., the CSIS Strategic Technologies Program hosts an event on the applications of facial recognition technology.
Last, at 4:00 p.m., join the CSIS Trustee Chair for a roundtable discussion on Xi Jinping’s effort to achieve a “common prosperity” in the face of ongoing inequality in China. |
Video
The CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program earlier today hosted Charif Souki, Executive Chairman of Tellurian, for a discussion on the role of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) in the global energy transition. Watch the video here. |
Podcasts
This week's episode of ChinaPower focused on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on China’s economy.
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
Our friends at Playing For Change have outdone themselves again—this time featuring Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ classic, “Peace Train.” youtube.com/watch?v=0QpjR6-Uuks |
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