The Evening: Russian Bombing, Realigning China Trade Policy, War/No More Trouble, and More

Note: CSIS is curating expert analysis surrounding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and updating content frequently. Visit “Crisis Crossroads: Ukraine.”

In addition, we’re recording daily episodes of “The Truth of the Matter” podcast. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Explosions Shake Kyiv and Kharkiv

Day 6 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Moscow appeared to target civilian areas with increasingly powerful weapons, and a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian tanks and vehicles sat about 20 miles north of Kyiv, a menacing presence that raised the possibility that Moscow could attempt an encirclement of the capital, as the NYT reports.

UN Says More than 675,000 People have Fled Ukraine

About 677,000 people have fled Ukraine in “less than a week” during Russia's ongoing invasion, UN Refugee Agency Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements said Tuesday, as CNN reports.

U.S. Realigning its China Trade Policy

The Biden administration said it is realigning its trade policy toward China, looking at all existing tools and potentially new ones to combat Beijing’s state-led nonmarket practices, as the WSJ reports.

Executive Education

Inside DOD's FY 2023 Budget, a CSIS executive education course, offers key insights from CSIS experts and practitioners on what the Biden administration's FY 2023 budget and strategy documents reveal about strategic priorities, major budget movements, force structure adds and cuts, and acquisition program changes.

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

60 million barrels

The U.S. and other major oil-consuming nations said Tuesday they would release 60 million barrels of oil from their emergency stockpiles, sending a jolt of new crude supplies into the market amid a price surge caused by the Ukraine crisis.

Source: WSJ

Critical Quote

“Everybody has to stop fighting and to go [back] to that point from where it began five, six days ago. It's important to stop bombing people and then we can move on and sit at the negotiation table.”

— Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky

iDeas Lab

CSIS's newest microsite, Interpret: China, seeks to enable a more objective understanding of China through the translation and analysis of primary source material.

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: Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images.) A view of the square outside the damaged local city hall of Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 1, 2022, destroyed as a result of Russian shelling.

Recommended Reading

“Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man” by CSIS's Eliot A. Cohen.

This Town Tomorrow

At 8:30 a.m., the CSIS Energy Security and Climate Change Program hosts Representative Jon Curtis (R-UT) for a conversation on U.S. leadership on energy and climate change and the view from Congress on these issues.

And, at 10:00 a.m., join the CSIS Asia Program for a pertinent conversation among experts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its geopolitical implications for Asia.

Then, at 2:00 p.m., several CSIS experts from a variety of programs brief the press on the evolving situation in Ukraine and its far-ranging impacts.

Video

Earlier today, CSIS Trustee Ray Dalio was joined by CSIS Trustee and Counselor Dr. Henry A. Kissinger to discuss Mr. Dalio's new book, Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. Watch the video here.

Podcasts

CSIS’s Nikos Tsafos and Ben Cahill joined The Truth of the Matter to discuss energy prices and the future of the energy and climate landscape in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. According to Nikos, we are “seeing the end of Russia as an energy superpower.”

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

“What we need is love sweet love.”

“War / No More Trouble,” is a Bob Marley song that has always stood out to me. The lyrics are almost entirely lifted from a speech that called for world peace made by Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I before the United Nations General Assembly on October 4, 1963.