The Evening: Vienna Shooting, German Lockdown, Stone in Love and More

November 2, 2020

Vienna Shooting: Attack at Austria Synagogue Leaves at Least One Dead

Several attackers killed at least one person and seriously injured others in a terrorist attack in an area around a synagogue in the Austrian capital Vienna on Monday night, as the WSJ reports.

New Lockdown in Germany

Germany entered a new partial lockdown on Monday amid skyrocketing coronavirus cases across Europe, a specter that Chancellor Angela Merkel called a test not seen in her country since the end of World War II, as the NYT reports.

Vaccine Disparities

An analysis from researchers at Duke University’s Global Health Innovation Center, found that high- and middle-income countries have already purchased 3.8 million doses of potential coronavirus vaccines, with options for 5 billion more. As a result, relatively wealthy nations will likely be able to vaccinate their entire populations while people in low-income countries could be waiting until 2024, as the Washington Post reports.

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In That Number

81,336

The seven-day average of new daily cases in the U.S. is now the highest the country has seen, at 81,336 cases.

Source: WSJ

Critical Quote

“Freedom is the possibility to decide from various options, but freedom is also freedom for everyone. That means, I don’t have endless freedom and everyone else has to live with my version of freedom.”

— German Chancellor Angela Merkel

iDeas Lab

CSIS conducted a survey among the American public, thought-leaders, and key allies to see what's happening between the U.S. and China. CSIS's Mike Green discusses what the results mean for the future of the relationship. Watch the full video here.

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: Stephane Cardinale - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.) France ramped up security to 7,000 soldiers around schools and places of worship following the fatal attack in Nice's Notre-Dame Cathedral.

Recommended Reading

“China’s Fifth Plenum: Reading the Initial Tea Leaves,” by CSIS’s Jude Blanchette and Scott Kennedy

This Town Tomorrow

At 8:30 a.m., join CSIS for a forum on the national security space landscape and the release of the FY2020 budget, featuring Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan and Representative Jim Cooper (D-TN), Chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces.

Tomorrow, at 9:00 a.m., the American Bar Association hosts “Hong Kong and Citizenship” to examine the Sino-British Declaration, the Chinese national security law, and UK offer to give people of Hong Kong pathways to citizenship.

And, at 11:00 a.m., the Atlantic Council speaks with award-winning journalist and author Owen Bennet-Jones about his new book, The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan .

Video

John J. Hamre, CSIS President and CEO, joins the CSIS Economics Program for the last episode of Economy Disrupted: "The World is Watching Tomorrow's Election." Watch the full video here.

Podcasts

In the latest episode of Thank You For Your Service, Alice and Jim talk about some of the ways the military will, and hopefully won't, be involved in the 2020 Presidential election.

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

On the eve of the 2020 election, let’s all take a deep breath, take a step back, and remember that America is the great country that invented rock and roll. And therefore, we are all entitled to rock out to cathartic tunes like Journey’s “Stone In Love.” Vote! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_zfDAOCT84