Good Evening, It's Tuesday, November 9th.
Note: The Evening will be "gone fishin'" until Monday, November 15. |
Boosters Pfizer and BioNTech asked U.S. health regulators on Tuesday to expand the authorization of their Covid booster to people as young as 18 years old, as the WSJ reports. |
West Accuses Belarus of Causing Migrant Crisis Poland has massed thousands of troops on its border with Belarus to keep out Middle Eastern migrants who have set up camp there, as Western officials accuse Belarus's leader of intentionally trying to create a new migrant crisis in Europe, as the NYT reports. |
Supply Chain Plan The White House announced a new "action plan" Tuesday aimed at expanding the capacity of U.S. ports and inland waterways, as persistent supply chain congestion slows goods deliveries and fuels rising prices, as the Washington Post reports. |
Executive Education Apply now for a CSIS course on China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The course draws insights from leading experts and the Reconnecting Asia Project and explains what the BRI is, what it is not, and how it is impacting commercial and strategic realities on the ground. |
Video Shorts Check out CSIS's new series of video shorts: "Data Unpacked," Testify," "What's Happening," "Preview," and "High Resolution." And don't forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel! |
In That Number 2.5 degrees C A United Nations analysis found a massive gap between countries' long-term plans to zero out carbon emissions and the official, short-term plans they have actually submitted—which indicates a world on track to warm 2.5 degrees Celsius.
Source: Washington Post |
Critical Quote "'America is Back' – together, for the planet, for the women, for our children." — Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the UN COP26 in Glasgow |
iDeas Lab 
New satellite imagery shows that steady progress on the construction of China's third aircraft carrier has continued throughout 2021. The vessel—commonly known as the Type 003—may launch in the coming months.
The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.![]() ![]() ![]() |
Optics 
(Photo credit: Leonid Shcheglov/BELTA/AFP/Getty Images.) Hundreds of migrants in Belarus descend on the Polish-Belarusian border on November 8, 2021 in what NATO slammed as a deliberate tactic by Minsk. |
Recommended Reading "Hydrogel: A Promising Solution for Water Scarcity in the Middle East?" by Will Todman of CSIS and Lyse Mauvais. |
This Town Tomorrow At 2:00 p.m., join CSIS and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Pincus for a conversation on America's betrayal of the Marshall Islands and what this tragedy can teach us about the risks that the world continues to face from nuclear weapons.
Earlier, at 10:00 a.m., the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace hosts an event on how development funders and financiers can meet the energy needs and priorities of low-income countries in ways that strengthen global responses to the climate crisis.
And, at 12:30 p.m., Johns Hopkins SAIS hosts a discussion on different types of inequality in the spheres of development, climate, and sustainability, as well as the role of cooperation in addressing shared crises. |
Video Yesterday, CSIS's Daniel Runde sat down with David Malpass, President of the World Bank Group, for a discussion on the direction and goals of the World Bank Group as we work toward a post-Covid-19 world. |
Podcasts 
The latest episode of the ChinaPower Podcast explores how China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) has adopted artificial intelligence (AI) technology and what the subsequent policy implications are for the United States.
Listen now on Spotify & Apple Podcasts. |
Smiles Everybody's had a few
Now they're talking about who knows who
I'm going back to the Crescent City
Where everything's still the same
Some of y'all want to know why I included Lucinda Williams on my New Orleans playlist. Well, Williams was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana and lived in New Orleans for some time. So much of her music holds onto the essence of the Crescent City.
Especially this song. This one is for my sister. |
| I invite you to email me at aschwartz@csis.org and follow me on Twitter @handrewschwartz |
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