Good Evening,
It's Thursday, December 2nd.
Note: The Evening will be “Gone Fishin’” until Tuesday, December 7. Until then, Smile! |
Biden Omicron Plan
President Biden laid out a new pandemic strategy on Thursday that includes hundreds of vaccination sites aimed at families, boosters for all adults, new testing requirements for international travelers, and free at-home tests that will be covered by private insurers or available at community health centers, as the NYT reports. |
U.S. and South Korea Update Wartime Plans for NK
The U.S. and South Korea said they would update their joint wartime contingency plans for North Korea, as the Kim Jong Un regime has kept pursuing military advances amid a stall in nuclear talks, as the WSJ reports.
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Remain in Mexico Deal Reached
The Biden administration has reached a deal with the Mexican government to restart the Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” program that requires asylum seekers to wait outside U.S. territory while their claims are processed, as the Washington Post reports.
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CSIS and DINSN Announce the 2021 U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in partnership with the Diversity in National Security Network (DINSN), is pleased to announce the 2021 U.S. National Security & Foreign Affairs Leadership List. |
Executive Education
Register for “The Defense Enterprise Today” course to learn about the current state of and future challenges facing the defense enterprise, including classic defense activities as well as the intelligence community, irregular warfare, and gray zone competition. |
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
42 million
Overall, the United States produced 42 million metric tons of plastic waste in 2016—almost twice as much as China, and more than the entire European Union combined. The United States contributes more to this deluge than any other nation, generating about 287 pounds of plastics per person.
Source: Committee on the U.S. Contributions to Global Ocean Plastic Waste |
Critical Quote
“If Russia decides to pursue confrontation, there will be serious consequences.”
— Secretary of State Antony Blinken |
iDeas Lab
According to new analysis from CSIS, obligations to the Big Five defense contractors—Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman—grew by 21 percent in FY 2020, rising to their highest level in the past two decades.
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. President Joe Biden speaks about the administration's response to Covid-19 and the Omicron variant at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, on December 2, 2021. |
Recommended Reading
“Getting to 'No' With Iran” by CSIS's Eric Brewer and Eurasia Group's Henry Rome. |
This Town Tomorrow
At 10:00 a.m., join CSIS’s Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program for a discussion on how NATO allies and partners can be empowered to promote technological innovations to compete with potential adversaries.
Later, at 2:00 p.m., the CSIS International Security Program hosts an event analyzing how the intelligence community can best serve its mission by adopting artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to analyze open source data.
Also, at 11:00 a.m., the Stimson Center hosts a discussion on the influential role the E10 (elected members of the Security Council) can play in counterbalancing the P5 of the UN Security Council. |
Video
Earlier today, CSIS co-hosted the Washington, D.C. launch of the Global Humanitarian Overview 2022. This event featured remarks from Ms. Samantha Power, Administrator, USAID; Mr. António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, and Mr. Martin Griffiths, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. |
Podcasts
In the latest episode of Pandemic Planet, CSIS's Katherine Bliss hosts Seth Berkley, CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to discuss what difficult lessons have been learned over COVAX’s first year and a half.
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
In case you were wondering, the Foo Fighters can cover just about anyone’s tunes . . . |
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