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June 18 , 2019
  • Reuters：Trump says U.S., Chinese teams to restart trade talks ahead of G20
    Reuters reports, "China and the United States are rekindling trade talks ahead of a meeting next week between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, cheering financial markets with hope that an escalating trade war between the two countries would abate. Trump said on Tuesday that teams from the two sides would begin preparations for the leaders to sit down at the G20 summit in Osaka. China, which previously declined to say whether the two leaders would meet, confirmed the get-together. 'Had a very good telephone conversation with President Xi of China. We will be having an extended meeting next week at the G-20 in Japan. Our respective teams will begin talks prior to our meeting,' Trump said in a post on Twitter. The world's two largest economies are in the middle of a costly trade dispute that has pressured financial markets and damaged the world economy."
  • The New York Times：Xi Jinping Will Make First Visit to North Korea Ahead of Meeting With Trump
    The New York Times reports, "President Xi Jinping of China plans to make his first state visit to North Korea this week, a surprise move that could rattle his relationship with President Trump, who has twice met the North's leader, Kim Jong-un, and made his nuclear diplomacy with Mr. Kim a signature foreign policy project. Mr. Kim has traveled to China four times in the past 15 months to confer with the Chinese president. But Mr. Xi, 66, who is one of the most traveled Chinese leaders, had been reluctant to reciprocate before now, depriving the 35-year-old Mr. Kim of the prestige of playing host to his most powerful neighbor. By going to Pyongyang, the North's capital, Mr. Xi is injecting himself into the middle of Mr. Trump's negotiating efforts, which have languished since February when he and Mr. Kim failed to agree on a disarmament deal in Hanoi, Vietnam."
  • The Wall Street Journal：Hong Kong Leader Carrie Lam Makes Apology, Puts Contested Law On Ice
    The Wall Street Journal reports, "This city's embattled leader signaled that her government is unlikely to resurrect a proposed extradition law, which she suspended on Saturday following mass protests, in an effort to quell the biggest public unrest in 22 years of Chinese rule. Chief Executive Carrie Lam's carefully chosen remarks stopped short of withdrawing the controversial legislation, which would allow suspects to be sent to China for trial, and were immediately rejected by opposition groups who have demanded the plan be scrapped and the Mrs. Lam step down, with some calling for further protests later this week.Two days after a record number of demonstrators took to the city's streets, the city's top official apologized for her handling of the issue and dividing society. The government wouldn't proceed with the law if public anxieties and fears can't be properly addressed, she said, and would 'accept reality' if the legislation couldn't be passed by the end of the current term of the city's legislature in July next year."
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