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** Good Evening,
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It's Wednesday, August 16th.


** World Leaders Accuse Trump of Glossing Over Racist Violence
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As politicians in the United States react with varying degrees of outrage to Donald Trump’s shifting remarks on Charlottesville, the president’s response has also earned him a wave of backlash from world leaders, as the
Washington Post’s Amy Wang reports (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/16/nazis-must-be-confronted-world-leaders-accuse-trump-of-glossing-over-racist-violence/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_worldreax-wv-12pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c6540db18c00&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .

The Guardian reports (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/theresa-may-joins-cross-party-criticism-donald-trump-charlottesville-speech?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) that British PM Theresa May has joined politicians from the main parties in the United Kingdom in criticizing Donald Trump for suggesting there was a moral equivalence between the Charlottesville racist protesters and those campaigning against them.


** NAFTA
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One of President Trump’s core campaign promises is about to be tested as talks with Canada and Mexico on NAFTA open today, as
Politico’s Doug Palmer reports (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-nafta-trade-talks-241675?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .

And, as Bloomberg’s Andrew Maida, Eric Martin, and Rheophiles Agrimis report (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-16/u-s-calls-for-major-overhaul-of-north-american-free-trade-pact?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) , President Trump isn’t looking for a “mere tweaking” of the North American Free Trade Agreement and will be seeking a major overhaul to a deal he believes has failed Americans, Trump’s top trade official said as talks began with Mexico and Canada to revamp the accord.

Plus, see the WSJ’s infographics, “Remaking NAFTA (https://www.wsj.com/graphics/nafta/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .”

Dive Deeper: See the Peterson Institute’s “A Path Forward for NAFTA (https://piie.com/publications/piie-briefings/path-forward-nafta?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) ,” by Fred Bergsten and Monica de Bole.

And listen to the CSIS “Energy 360” podcast this week, “Energy & Geopolitics: Mexico and NAFTA (https://www.csis.org/podcasts/energy-360/?block4&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .”


** War Games Looming
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Twice a year, U.S. and South Korean troops get together for large-scale war games to prepare for a possible attack by North Korea. And year after year, the North condemns the joint exercises as a rehearsal for an invasion and demands that they be called off. With President Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, recently trading threats of nuclear war, another round of the biannual drills is set to begin on Monday in South Korea, as the
New York Times’ Motoko Rich reports (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/world/asia/north-korea-us-war-games.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fasia&action=click&contentCollection=asia®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=3&pgtype=sectionfront&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: See CSIS’s interactive micro-website “Missile Threat (https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/dprk/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) ” for more on North Korea’s capabilities.

And, CFR’s Backgrounder by Eleanor Albert, “North Korea’s Military Capabilities (https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/north-koreas-military-capabilities?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .”

Plus, Brookings’ Bob Einhorn on “Approaching the North Korea Challenge Realistically (https://www.brookings.edu/research/approaching-the-north-korea-challenge-realistically/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .”


** In That Number
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** 50%
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Probability that the Fed will leave rates unchanged through year’s end prior to the release of today’s Federal Reserve meeting minutes. Source: WSJ (https://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-officials-split-over-next-rate-increase-1502906527?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .


** Critical Quote
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** “This whole business of renegotiating NAFTA was a campaign pledge in search of a constituency.”
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—CSIS’s Scott Miller via the Street (https://www.thestreet.com/story/14272867/1/trump-seeks-to-turn-bombast-into-action-as-nafta-negotiations-start.html?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
Missile Threat released a new feature today on the SS-N-30A, a Russian land attack cruise missile (https://missilethreat.csis.org/missile/ss-n-30a/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .

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: Drew Angerer/Getty Images.) Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin look on yesterday as President Donald Trump fielded questions from reporters about his comments on the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and white supremacists.


** Recommended Reading
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“Tech Firms Break From Hands-Off Approach With Bans on White Supremacists (https://www.wsj.com/articles/tech-firms-break-from-hands-off-approach-with-bans-on-white-supremacists-1502881201?mod=e2tw&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) ,” via the
Wall Street Journal’s Yoree Koh and Jacob Gershman.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting at 5:30 for a discussion with Suzy Hansen (http://pulitzercenter.org/event/book-chat-journalist-suzy-hansen?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) , journalist and author of
Notes on a Foreign Country: An American Abroad in a Post-American World.


** On Demand
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Today, CSIS hosted “Kenya Elections Review (https://www.csis.org/events/kenya-elections-review/?block1&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) ,” a postelections discussion on Kenya featuring two journalists who had just returned from covering the elections there.


** Sounds
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Lt Gen Stayce Harris, assistant vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, joined Smart Women, Smart Power this week to discuss STEM education and leadership.

Listen on iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/smart-women-smart-power/id924940383?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) or SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/leadership-stem-education-and-breaking-barriers-wusaf-lt-gen-stayce-harris?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .


** Smiles
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I really need a smile--badly. I bet you all do too. This morning while I was swimming (it was a beautiful morning in Bethesda) I started thinking about Stevie Wonder and this powerful, funkafied clip. There’s absolutely nothing like it. Higher Ground (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnbdXWvmysg&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789) .
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=28d76afaa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-28d76afaa9-145367789)

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