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** Good Evening,
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** Another Country Heard From
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France considers the US position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “confused and worrying,” its foreign minister said today, reacting to President Trump’s dropping the US commitment to a two-state solution. Jean-Marc Ayrault met Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a G20 meeting of foreign ministers in Bonn where, he said, he got some reassurance about Washington’s stance on Russia, but little on the Middle East, as Reuters reports (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-g20-germany-france-usa-idUSKBN15V292?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See the Wilson Center’s Aaron David Miller: “Can This ‘Special Relationship’ Be Saved? (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/can-special-relationship-be-saved?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) ”


** Not Ready To Collaborate
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The US is not ready to collaborate militarily with Russia, Defense Secretary James Mattis said today, appearing to close the door for now on any effort to work more closely with Moscow in the fight against ISIS in Syria, as CBS News reports (http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-collaborate-militarily-russia-pentagon-chief-jim-mattis/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Jon Alterman has a new commentary: “Half Measures in Syria: The US needs to go big or go home (https://www.csis.org/analysis/half-measures-syria?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .”


** Baghdad Bomb
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A car bomb exploded in a crowded Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Baghdad late Thursday afternoon, the latest terror attack in the capital claimed by the Islamic State, security officials reported. At least 54 people were killed and at least 63 more wounded in the bombing, making it the deadliest in Baghdad in at least a month, as the New York Times’ David Zucchino reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/world/middleeast/baghdad-car-bomb.html?_r=0&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman has a new report: Tracking the Trends and Numbers: Islam, Terrorism, Stability and Conflict in the Middle East (https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-trends-and-numbers-islam-terrorism-stability-and-conflict-middle-east?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .


** In That Number
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** 104
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The number of satellites that India launched atop a single rocket yesterday—far surpassing Russia’s 2014 record launch of 37 satellites. Source: Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/india-just-launched-a-record-breaking-104-satellites-into-space-from-one-rocket/2017/02/15/e705626c-64ff-4b46-a05a-655cfd3cdb7c_story.html?utm_term=.71c25e16a965&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .


** Critical Quote
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** “The lessons that Beijing learns from the current struggle over THAAD will shape the development of its own diplomacy as a great power. The Trump administration would do well to consider what those lessons might be.”
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—CSIS’s Bonnie Glaser, Daniel Sofio, and David Parker authored an essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Good, the THAAD, and the Ugly (https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2017-02-15/good-thaad-and-ugly?cid=int-lea&pgtype=hpg&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .”


** iDeas Lab
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CSIS’s Smart Women, Smart Power Podcast features powerful conversations between leading women around the globe. It’s newest episode, “Human Rights and Countering Violent Extremism: What’s the Connection? (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/smart-women-smart-power-podcast?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) ,” features a discussion with CSIS’s Shannon Green.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, audio, and video.


** Optics
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(Photo Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.)
President Trump speaks today during a news conference announcing Alexander Acosta as the new labor secretary nominee in the East Room at the White House.


** Recommended Reading
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“A Mexican populist rises to face Trump’s America (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/a-mexican-populist-rises-to-face-trumps-america/2017/02/15/32ab8da2-f1f4-11e6-9fb1-2d8f3fc9c0ed_story.html?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.71387bbb2e10&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) ” by the
Washington Post’s Joshua Partlow.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join Wilson Center at 9:00 a.m. for “After the Peace Agreement: What Next for Colombia? (https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/after-the-peace-agreement-what-next-for-colombia?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) ”

Join CSIS’s Project on Prosperity and Development at 10:00 a.m. for a panel discussion with Pamela Cox, former vice president at the World Bank, on US global development challenges (https://www.csis.org/events/world-bank-and-american-interest?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .

And join GW’s Elliott School of International Affairs for a panel discussion of US-Taiwan relations and foreign policy (https://elliott.gwu.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D122573624&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) at 12:00 p.m.


** CSIS On Demand
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On Tuesday, CSIS hosted a discussion with Jon Huntsman, Charlene Barshefsky, and Evan Greenberg on "Reinvigorating US Economic Strategy in the Asia Pacific (https://www.csis.org/events/reinvigorating-us-economic-strategy-asia-pacific?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) ."

Yesterday, Ashton Kutcher testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on “Ending Modern Slavery: Building on Success (http://www.foreign.senate.gov/hearings/ending-modern-slavery-building-on-success-021517?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .” For more on this subject, watch “Combating Child Trafficking and Supporting Survivors through Strategic Development (https://www.csis.org/events/combating-child-trafficking-and-supporting-survivors-through-strategic-development?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) ,” a discussion moderated by CSIS’s Shannon Green.


** Sounds
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CSIS's Jeffrey Rathke joined Marketplace's
Morning Report to discuss the United States' push for NATO members to spend more on defense (http://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/02152017?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .


** Smiles
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Thanks to everyone for the great notes about The Faces and Rod Stewart. They were an extraordinary band. I love when they covered other artist’s tunes. My friend the late Memphis blues legend Jim Dickinson used to say that not everyone can write songs like Bob Dylan, and they shouldn’t try to either.

The Faces knew that truth all too well and had no shame in covering, and absolutely nailing Paul McCartney and Wings’, “Maybe I’m Amazed (https://youtu.be/SLhoLkTyNkM?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=5d4470ebd7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-5d4470ebd7-145367789) .”


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