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It's Thursday, November 10th. |
Biden and Xi to Meet
President Biden and President Xi Jinping of China will meet on Monday before the Group of 20 summit in Indonesia, an encounter that Mr. Biden and his advisers said would be focused on setting expectations with the Chinese as tensions continue to rise over matters such as Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as the NYT reports. |
Russia-Ukraine Casualties
More than 100,000 Russian troops — and likely about as many Ukrainian troops — are estimated to be dead or wounded since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, the Pentagon’s top general said as he raised the possibility of peace talks to end “a lot of human suffering,” as the Washington Post reports. |
Inflation Eased in October
Inflation eased last month to the slowest pace since January but remained high, which could keep Federal Reserve officials on track to start slowing the pace of interest-rate rises aimed at taming price pressures, as the WSJ reports.
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Executive Education
U.S. and Eurasian Security: The Challenges Ahead is a new program that will give participants a competitive advantage through in-depth analysis and insights into the major challenges to U.S. security across Eurasia. |
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
$18 billion
The UK government has frozen more than $18 billion in assets as part of its sanctions regime against Russia, according to new figures released Thursday.
Source: Financial Times
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Critical Quote
“You’re looking at well over 100,000 Russian soldiers killed and wounded. Same thing probably on the Ukrainian side.”
— Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff |
iDeas Lab
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Optics
(Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images.) An epidemic control worker registers a man for a nucleic acid test to detect COVID-19 at a public testing booth in the street on November 7, 2022 in Beijing, China. |
Recommended Reading
"Combined Arms Warfare and Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A New Era of Strategic Competition" by CSIS's Seth G. Jones, Jake Harrington, Christopher K. Reid, and Matthew Strohmeyer. |
This Town Monday
At 9:30 a.m., the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda launches a new report: Mitigating Financial Access Challenges.
Later, at 2:00 p.m., Brookings holds a conversation on the state of U.S. military preparations for great-power deterrence and war.
Also at 2:00 p.m., the Atlantic Council hosts a discussion on the ongoing shifts in German foreign and security policies.
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Video
Yesterday, the CSIS Humanitarian Agenda hosted the 2022 Washington Humanitarian Forum, a mix of country-based and thematic panels, with an emphasis on less widely covered crises. Watch the introduction and plenary panel here. |
Podcasts
Special Olympics International chairman Dr. Timothy Shriver joins the podcast to discuss inclusivity through basic human dignity in education and how the United States can work to engage in foreign policy efforts on an international scale to further inclusion in education.
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.
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Smiles
Today, I came across a newly released and truly compelling early television performance by Dire Straits in 1978. I can’t stop watching it. It’s that good. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
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