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** Good Evening,
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It's Wednesday, April 18th.


** U.S.-NK Meeting
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President Trump expressed optimism today that his planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un can help make the world safer, and he said his envoy, CIA Director Mike Pompeo, and Kim have already forged a “good relationship,” as the
Washington Post’s Anne Gearan and David Nakamura report (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-says-initial-high-level-meeting-between-us-and-north-korea-went-very-well/2018/04/18/ca20778a-430e-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?utm_term=.929746c898ac&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .

And, on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats are providing tepid praise to CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s meeting with the North Korean leader, as the Hill’s Rebecca Kheel reports (http://thehill.com/policy/defense/383784-dems-praise-pompeo-kim-meeting-as-needed-preparation-for-trump-summit?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “Key Takeaways of the Kim-Trump Summit Minuet (https://www.38north.org/2018/04/sblank041818/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) ,” by Stephen Blank for the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins SAIS.

“Kim Jong-un has a maximum pressure and engagement strategy of his own (https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/04/18/kim-jong-un-has-a-maximum-pressure-and-engagement-strategy-of-his-own/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) ,” by Brookings’ Jung Pak.


** Meet the New ISIS
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A new and dangerous extremist group spawned from al Qaeda called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is consolidating power in northwestern Syria, while the U.S. has focused on fighting remnants of Islamic State elsewhere in the country and striking the Assad regime’s chemical-weapons facilities, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Sune Engel Rasmussen reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-islamic-state-fades-in-syria-another-militant-group-takes-root-1524064045?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .


** End of the Castro Era
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Cuba’s Raul Castro moved closer to retiring as president today as the country’s parliament proposed Miguel Diaz-Canel to replace him, in a shift that will usher in the island’s first non-Castro leader since the 1959 revolution, as Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cuba-politics/castro-nears-retirement-as-cuban-president-successor-proposed-idUSKBN1HP0E1?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .

Also, see the Bloomberg Editorial Board’s “Cuba After the Castros (https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-04-18/cuba-after-the-castros?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .”

Dive Deeper: “What is Cuba’s Post-Castro Future? (https://www.cfr.org/interview/what-cubas-post-castro-future?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) ” by CFR’s Christopher Sabatini.


** 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=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .


** In That Number
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** 7
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Russia's RT faces seven investigations in Britain over broadcasts since Skripal case.
Source: Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-russia/russias-rt-faces-seven-investigations-in-britain-over-broadcasts-since-skripal-case-idUSKBN1HP1CM?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .


** Critical Quote
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** “Mike Pompeo met with Kim Jong Un in North Korea last week.”
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—President Donald Trump


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
Tomorrow is CSIS's fourth annual Global Development Forum (GDF). This year’s theme is “From ‘Billions To Trillions’” – with only a few hundred billion foreign aid dollars available, there is a global need to rethink how domestic resources of developing countries and private capital can pay for the trillions of dollars needed to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. See the full agenda here (https://www.csis.org/events/2018-global-development-forum?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .

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: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images.) Former First Lady Barbara Bush, an American icon.


** Recommended Reading
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“Trump’s ‘coordinated chaos’ may be part of a grand strategy, one that doesn’t bode well for China (http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2142260/trumps-coordinated-chaos-may-be-part-grand-strategy-one?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) ,” by CSIS’s Scott Kennedy for the
South China Morning Post.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join CSIS at 8:45 a.m. for the 2018 Global Development Forum (GDF) (https://www.csis.org/events/2018-global-development-forum?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) , an all-day event seeking to examine the role and purpose of official development assistance against a backdrop of rising incomes, economic growth, youth unemployment, and other continued complex challenges in many parts of the world.

At 5:30 p.m., join the Atlantic Council for a discussion on combating religious extremism and terrorism (http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/events/upcoming-events/detail/dialogue-on-combating-religious-extremism-and-terror-with-sri-sri-ravi?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .

And, at 6:30 p.m., join Kramerbooks for a book talk with Marketplace correspondent Scott Tong (http://kramers.com/scott-tong-village-my-name?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) , author of A Village with My Name.


** Video
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Today, Senator Menendez (D-NJ) joined CSIS for a conversation on congressional oversight and leadership in U.S. foreign policy. Listen to the full discussion here (https://www.csis.org/events/senator-robert-menendez-congressional-leadership-foreign-policy?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .


** Sounds
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On the latest episode of Citizens in Training, Dave DesRoches of the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies lays out the military case for—and against—conscription and the social and economic implications of building a conscription society.

Listen here on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id1358417260?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/building-a-conscription?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) .


** Smiles
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One more (https://playingforchange.com/skin-deep-songs-around-world/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789) from the forthcoming Playing For Change album. This time from Buddy Guy and friends (and one of my favorite musicians is in this one: Waddy Wachtel on slide guitar).
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=40be3de292-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-40be3de292-145367789)

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