Good Evening,
It's Monday, November 14th. |
Biden Meets Xi
President Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping sought to halt a rapid downward spiral in relations between Washington and Beijing, instructing officials to resume stalled talks on major global priorities, but the two countries acknowledged areas of deep disagreement that could disrupt those efforts, as the WSJ reports. |
Zelensky Visits Kherson
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine made an unannounced visit to the newly freed city of Kherson on Monday, reveling in perhaps the most significant success by his country’s forces since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February, as the NYT reports. |
CIA director warns Russia against use of nuclear weapons
CIA director Bill Burns has warned Russia against using nuclear weapons in the first known in-person meeting between senior officials of the two countries since President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, as the FT reports. |
Executive Education
Register by November 16th for U.S. and Eurasian Security: The Challenges Ahead. This new program 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
$8 billion
The European Union and its member states have sent at least $8 billion worth of military equipment to Ukraine amid the war, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell noted on Monday.
Source: CNN |
Critical Quote
“I absolutely believe there need not be a new Cold War.”
— President Joe Biden |
iDeas Lab
A new CSIS report examines the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) in combined arms warfare based on the war in Ukraine and other cases. In the future, UASs will likely play an increasingly important role in great power competition against such countries as China and Russia.
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: Saul Loeb/Getty Images.) U.S. President Joe Biden and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands as they meet on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on November 14, 2022. |
Recommended Reading
“Xi-Biden Meeting May Help End China’s Destructive Isolation” by CSIS’s Scott Kennedy in Foreign Policy. |
This Town Tomorrow
At 10:00 a.m., the CSIS Global Food Security Program hosts a discussion on Russia's targeting of Ukraine's agriculture sector.
Later, at 4:30 p.m., CSIS’s Scott Kennedy is joined by Peking University’s Wang Jisi to discuss their exchange of visits and whether Washington and Beijing can build effective “guardrails” to keep ties from devolving into open conflict.
And, at 2:00 p.m., Brookings holds a panel discussion on regulating digital assets and cryptocurrency. |
Video
CSIS recently released a new episode of Ukraine: The Human Price of War, exploring the war's changing dynamics and the potential severe impact on Ukraine's population. Watch the full video here. |
Podcasts
Iran’s former minister of women’s affairs Mahnaz Afkhami joins the podcast to discuss the protests in Iran and what they might mean for the future of Iran
Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles
“He can play the Honky Tonk like anything
Savin' it up, for Friday night”
Just days before the debut of their first single in the spring of 1978, Dire Straits appeared to perform “Sultans of Swing” live on the Old Grey Whistle Test. “Sultans” is a timeless, perfect song featuring one of the most indelible guitar hooks rock and roll has ever seen. And it still sounds like nothing else I’ve ever heard. This early performance is special. |
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