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** Good Evening,
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It's Wednesday, May 23rd.


** Zero Concessions to North Korea
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During his first congressional grilling as secretary of state on Wednesday, Secretary Mike Pompeo stressed that the United States had made “zero concessions” to the North Korean regime and would continue to hold firm until Pyongyang takes “credible steps” toward denuclearization, as the
Washington Post reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pompeo-promises-zero-concessions-to-north-korea-until-credible-steps-are-made/2018/05/23/3ad505e4-5e90-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html?utm_term=.877ce546870f&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .

Secretary Pompeo was confident that the U.S.-North Korea summit is "still scheduled for June 12" despite the president casting doubt on the date on Tuesday, as CBS News reports (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pompeo-testifies-before-house-on-us-diplomacy-north-korea-live-stream/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: According to CSIS Beyond Parallel, (https://beyondparallel.csis.org/postponement-punggye-ri-minimal-changes-scheduled-dismantlement-nuclear-test-site/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) reports now indicate that North Korea may be allowing a small group of journalists into the country to cover the shutdown of the North Korean nuclear test site at Punggye-ri this week. These developments suggest that a cancellation or postponement, while still possible, is not in the offing.


** Invite Rescinded
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The Pentagon rescinded an invitation to China to participate in an international military exercise in the Pacific Ocean next month, signaling disapproval to Beijing for what U.S. officials say is its refusal to stop militarizing South China Sea islands, as the
Wall Street Journal reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-retracts-invitation-to-china-to-participate-in-military-exercise-1527090123?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: Five claimants occupy nearly 70 disputed reefs and islets spread across the South China Sea. Explore the CSIS Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative’s satellite imagery of each outpost (https://amti.csis.org/island-tracker/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .

CSIS’s Amy Searight testified today before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on "Asia's Diplomatic and Security Structure: Planning U.S. Engagement (https://www.csis.org/analysis/asias-diplomatic-and-security-structure-planning-us-engagement?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) ."


** Mysterious Ailments
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An American government employee posted in southern China has signs of possible brain injury after reporting disturbing sounds and sensations, the State Department said on Wednesday, in events that seemed to draw parallels with mysterious ailments that struck American diplomats in Cuba, as the
New York Times reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/world/asia/china-guangzhou-consulate.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fworld&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .


** Your Questions
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Do you have any questions about trade and how a changing U.S. trade policy may affect your life? If you do, please email me your question(s) to aschwartz@csis.org (mailto:aschwartz@csis.org?subject=Your%20Questions) . We’ll publish some of the best questions and get our experts to answer them on an upcoming CSIS podcast.


** Enroll for Fall
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Now enrolling for the Fall, CSIS & Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs offer a new Executive Master's in International Relations. Information here (https://www.csis.org/programs/abshire-inamori-leadership-academy/executive-education/executive-masters-international?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .


** In That Number
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** 25%
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The Trump administration is considering a plan that would impose new tariffs of up to 25 percent on imported vehicles on national-security grounds.
Source: WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-weighs-new-tariffs-on-imported-vehicles-1527106235?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .


** Critical Quote
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** “A bad deal is not an option.”
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—Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on negotiations with North Korea (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/pompeo-says-bad-deal-with-north-korea-not-an-option-for-us.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
Our new CSIS podcast, “The Trade Guys (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/trade-guys?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=15bdcce40e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-15bdcce40e-&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) ,” breaks down the buzz around trade, how it affects policy, and how it impacts your day-to-day life.

Check out the third episode, “Trade War on Hold and a Skinny NAFTA (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trade-guys/id1380336613?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=15bdcce40e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-15bdcce40e-&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) ” that tackles two big stories: what came out of the latest U.S.-China trade talks, and what’s happening with the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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


** Optics
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Die Welt (Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.) President Trump talks to journalists before departing the White House today en route to New York.


** Recommended Reading
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“The only way to bring justice to ISIS 'Beatles,' (https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/opinions/bring-justice-to-isis-geltzer-hartig/index.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) ” by Joshua Geltzer and Luke Hartig for CNN.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS at 9:00 a.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/toward-new-paradigm-cross-border-data-flows-moving-ahead-cloud-act?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) for a discussion with Associate Deputy Attorney General Sujit Raman on how the U.S. Department of Justice is approaching implementation of the CLOUD Act and cross-border data sharing issues, including future bilateral agreements.

At 12:30 p.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/can-nuclear-compete?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) , join CSIS for "Can Nuclear Compete?," a conversation on the U.S. nuclear energy sector and national security.

Join CSIS at 2:00 p.m. (https://www.csis.org/events/teddy-roosevelt-%E2%80%94-american-realist?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) for a discussion on Roosevelt’s foreign policy, defined more by a careful and restrained exercise of American power than by his idealistic and combative personality.


** Video
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CSIS recently hosted the Future Strategy Forum, a new initiative to connect women scholars who research national security with its leading practitioners. During the full-day event, panelists spoke on the changing character of warfare and potential new strategies for the U.S. and its partners. Watch the conversations here (https://www.csis.org/events/future-force?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .


** Sounds
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This week’s episode of The Trade Guys covers what came out of the latest U.S.-China trade talks, and what’s happening with the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Trade Guys deconstruct what it means to halt a trade war and explain why the administration might be falling behind schedule to renegotiate the NAFTA deal.

Listen on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trade-guys/id1380336613?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/3-trade-war-on-hold-and-a?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) .


** Smiles
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Great smile in my house this morning. My fourteen-year-old held up his iPhone X, tapped on a link to an iTune and said, “Dad, have you ever heard this song?”

“This song” was “Fortunate Son (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyREuhUnXic&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789) ” by CCR. And here I thought there was no hope with regard to rock and roll music for the kids of today…
I invite you to email me at aschwartz@csis.org (mailto:aschwartz@csis.org) and follow me on Twitter @handrewschwartz (https://www.twitter.com/handrewschwartz?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=c8ec6ee4a2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_05_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-c8ec6ee4a2-145367789)

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