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** Good Evening,
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It's Tuesday, April 10th.


** Response to Syria
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International chemical weapons experts will go to the Syrian town of Douma to investigate a suspected poison gas attack as the United States and other Western powers consider military action over the incident. And in Washington, President Trump, who had been due to travel to Peru on Friday, canceled a trip to Latin America to focus on responding to the Syria incident, as Reuters reports (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria/international-experts-to-inspect-attack-site-in-syria-as-u-s-ponders-response-idUSKBN1HG0D8?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “Military Strikes on Syria: Critical Considerations (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/military-strikes-on-syria-critical-considerations?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ,” by the Washington Institute’s Michael.

“Syria: When and How Does This War End? (https://www.csis.org/analysis/syria-when-and-how-does-war-end?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ” by CSIS’s Anthony Cordesman.


** A More Open China
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Chinese President Xi Jinping offered to further open up China’s markets to foreign business, though fell short of proposing the thoroughgoing changes the Trump administration says it is seeking to avert a trade fight, as the
Wall Street Journal’s Lingling Wei reports (https://www.wsj.com/articles/xi-pledges-a-more-open-china-increased-imports-and-lower-tariffs-1523369395?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) .

Dive Deeper: “The Chinese are Coming! The Chinese are Coming! (https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinese-are-coming-chinese-are-coming?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ” by CSIS’s William Reinsch.

“More than Soybeans: Trump’s Section 301 Tariffs and China’s Response (https://piie.com/blogs/trade-investment-policy-watch/more-soybeans-trumps-section-301-tariffs-and-chinas-response?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ,” by the Peterson Institute’s Chad Brown.


** Facebook Face Up
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized repeatedly to Congress today for his company's handling of user data as he came under intense questioning by lawmakers frustrated by the social network's history of privacy abuses, as
Politico’s Steven Overly reports (https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/10/facebook-zuckerberg-testimony-511186?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-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.


** Executive M.A. from CSIS/Syracuse U
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CSIS & Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs offer Executive Master's in International Relations. Information here (https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/dc/emir/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) .


** In That Number
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** 36%
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Chinese investment into the U.S. dropped by 36% last year.
Source: National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (https://www.ncuscr.org/fdi?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789)


** Critical Quote
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** “In a world aspiring for peace and development, the Cold War and zero-sum mentality look even more out of place.”
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— Chinese President Xi Jinping (https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-xi-promises-to-ease-foreign-access-1523332086?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789)


** iDeas Lab
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Die Welt
Yemen's humanitarian crisis has been compounded and accelerated by attacks on the healthcare sector. Chapter 4 of The New Barbarianism, “Yemen’s Cage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LHP5InFM4&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ,” takes an on-the-ground look at the struggles of those inside the war-ravaged country–acute malnutrition, a rising famine, an outbreak of cholera, and over half of the population with no access to health services.

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: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images.) One hundred cardboard cutouts of Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stand outside the US Capitol today as an advocacy group is calling attention to what the group says are hundreds of millions of fake accounts still spreading disinformation on Facebook.


** Recommended Reading
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“‘Air Force Un’: As North Korea’s leader steps onto international stage, a question over his ability to fly (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/air-force-un-as-north-koreas-leader-steps-onto-international-stage-a-question-over-his-ability-to-fly/2018/04/09/08c265e2-3c08-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html?utm_term=.94b139a6b2e2&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ,” via the
Washington Post's David Nakamura.


** This Town Tomorrow
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Join The World Resource Institute and the National Geographic Society at 9:00 a.m. (http://www.wri.org/events/2018/04/open-data-closing-world?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) for a conversation on how current trends in data, technology, media, and human networks can inform decision-making around natural resources.

And at 12:30 p.m. (https://www.newamerica.org/fellows/events/undemocratic-american-state-race-and-lessons-history/?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) , join New America for a discussion exploring how America can integrate the frameworks of race/ethnic politics and of comparative politics to better understand contemporary outcomes.


** Video
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“The New Barbarianism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2d9cat4FWg&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) ,” a CSIS original documentary, examines the surge of violence against health workers, patients, and facilities worldwide.


** Sounds
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On the latest episode of Russian Roulette, Matthew Rojansky, director of the Kennan Institute at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discusses the state of U.S.-Russia relations, historical cycles in the relationship, signaling, and ways out of the current downward spiral.

Listen here on Apple Podcasts (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/russian-roulette/id1112258664?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) and SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/csis-57169780/of-us-russia-relations-and-what-is-to-be-done-russian-roulette-episode-55?utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789) .


** Smiles
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I don’t know why Fleetwood Mac fired Lindsey Buckingham. That’s like the Cavs firing LeBron. I bet the firing won’t last long. While the members of the Big Mac may be sick and tired of each other, we’ll never get enough of their music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clCYmvmpIsA&utm_source=CSIS+All&utm_campaign=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-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=4dfdba91da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f326fc46b6-4dfdba91da-145367789)

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