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July 25 , 2019
  • CNN：US Navy sails warship through contested waterway as Beijing warns Taiwan
    CNN reports: "The US Navy sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday, a move that came on the same day Beijing warned that it would not rule out using force against self-governed Taiwan to block any move toward formal independence. The 'USS Antietam conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit July 24-25 (local time) in accordance with international law,' Cdr. Clay Doss, a spokesman for the US Navy's Seventh Fleet, told CNN in a statement. 'The ships' transit through the Taiwan Strait demonstrates the US commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific,' he added, saying 'The US Navy will continue to fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows.' The US routinely sails through the Taiwan Strait, last doing so in May, but Chinese military forces view the strategic waterway separating China from Taiwan as a priority area and often shadow US vessels that sail through the area."
  • Bloomberg：China Trade Minister Steps Out of the Shadows for the First Time in U.S. Talks
    Bloomberg reports: "The differences on substance are vast and the mistrust between the two sides high. Yet one of the biggest questions hanging over U.S.-China trade talks as negotiators prepare for the resumption of face-to-face talks in Shanghai next week is over the new prominence of an old China trade hand. After spending most of the past year in the relative shadows of the talks, Chinese Commerce Minister Zhong Shan has joined two conference calls with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in recent weeks and is expected to be at the table when the two sides start meeting in Shanghai on Tuesday next week. With that Zhong will for the first time be part of the small group of negotiators tasked with charting a path to end more than a year of tit-for-tat tariffs and a trade war blamed for causing a slowdown in the global economy."
  • The New York Times：Hong Kong Police Ban a March to Protest Mob Violence
    The New York Times reports: "The Hong Kong police on Thursday blocked plans for a weekend march in a satellite town where a mob of men armed with sticks and poles had earlier injured dozens of people in an attack apparently designed to intimidate participants in a weekslong protest movement. The march organizer said he would appeal, and some protesters have signaled that they will go ahead with the event whether it is approved or not, a sign that police opposition and increasingly strident denunciations from Chinese officials and local leaders are doing little to curb the demonstrations. The march was planned for Saturday in the town of Yuen Long, where thugs believed to be connected with organized crime groups attacked people in and around a train station. The attackers, who were dressed in white shirts, were apparently targeting people who were coming home from earlier demonstrations. They lashed out indiscriminately, injuring journalists, a lawmaker and protesters as well as people with no connection to the protests."
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