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6A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 2018 WORLD IN BRIEF gle became part of parent Alphabet, has said he wants Google to be in China serving Chinese users. Since Google exited, Baidu has become the dominant search engine in China. In June, Google invested $550 million in JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce platform that is second only to Alibaba in the country. The companies said they would collaborate on retail solutions around the world without mentioning China, where Google services including Gmail and YouTube are blocked. Associated Press China announces $60B of US goods for tariff retaliation BEIJING — China today announced a $60 billion list of U.S. goods including coffee, honey and industrial chemicals for retaliation if Wash- ington goes ahead with its latest tariff threat. The Finance Ministry accused the Trump administration of damaging the global economy after it proposed increasing duties on $200 billion of Chinese goods in the second round of a dispute over technology. The ministry said the retaliatory duties of 25 percent, 20 percent, 10 percent or 5 percent on 5,207 products will be imposed “if the U.S. side persists in putting its tariff measures into effect.” Washington imposed 25 percent duties on $34 billion of Chinese goods on July 6 in response to complaints Beijing steals or pressures compa- nies to hand over technology. Beijing retaliated by imposing similar charges on the same amount of U.S. products. Chinese leaders have offered to narrow their politically sensitive trade surplus with the United States by purchasing more American goods. But they have rejected changing technology develop- ment plans they see as a path to prosperity and global influence. The escalating dispute, with no settlement in sight, has fueled fears it might chill global trade and economic growth. Today’s threat targeting a smaller amount of U.S. goods reflects the fact that Beijing is running out of products for retaliation due to its lopsided trade balance with the United States. China’s imports from the United States last year totaled $153.9 billion. After the earlier action against $34 billion of U.S. goods, that left about $120 billion available for retaliation. The highest penalties in today’s list would be imposed on honey, vegetables, mushrooms and chemicals, targeting farming and mining areas that supported President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Reports: Google working on censorship-ready search for China Google is reportedly working on a mobile version of its search engine that will comply with strict censorship controls in China. The Intercept reported that the work has been ongoing since the spring of 2017 and was accel- erated in December following a meeting between Google CEO Sundar Pichai and a top govern- ment official in China. The report cited internal Google documents and unnamed people familiar with the plans. The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal confirmed the work in separate reports, Trump renews attacks on ‘fake, fake disgusting news’ AP Photo/Jerome Delay Riot police enter the Bronte hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe, where opposition leader Nelson Chamisa was scheduled to speak. Zimbabwe opposition leader says vote was stolen by Mnangagwa HARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe opposition leader Nelson Chamisa today forcefully rejected the narrow election win of President Emmerson Mnangagwa as fraudulent, calling it a vote “stolen from the people.” The closely watched elections began with Monday’s peaceful vote but turned deadly 48 hours later when the military fired on protesters in the capital, Harare, and six people were killed. The opposition said it will challenge in court the results of the election, which Mnangagwa won with just over 50 percent of the vote. The 40-year-old Chamisa spoke shortly after three truckloads of riot police with shields and batons tried to disperse dozens of journalists gathered to hear him. With cameras recording their every move the police eventually pulled back, allowing him to give a blistering denunci- ation of the results. He received over 44 percent of the vote but claimed that based on the opposition’s own count he won 56 percent. He was asked for evidence but didn’t share it, instead saying the elec- toral commission “didn’t want to listen to us.” Chamisa also alleged violence and harassment against his supporters. Zimbabweans had a subdued reaction to Mnangagwa’s win in the country’s first vote after the fall of longtime leader Robert Mugabe. The 75-year-old Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s former enforcer and confidante, said he was “hum- bled” by the victory and in a Twitter post urged Zimbabweans to stay peaceful. The president later denounced the police’s actions against journalists and defended his vic- tory, saying that “we won the election freely and fairly, and have nothing to hide or fear.” also citing unnamed sources. Google did not reply to a request for comment. According to The Intercept, Google created a custom Android app that will automatically fil- ter out sites blocked by China’s so-called “Great Firewall.” Google has not offered search ser- vices in China since it largely exited the coun- try in 2010. Google had previously complied with cen- sorship controls starting in 2006 as it sought a toehold in the booming Chinese economy. But 2111 Exchange St., Astoria, Oregon • 503-325-4321 www.columbiamemorial.org • A Planetree-Designated Hospital it faced unrelenting pressure from human rights groups and some shareholders to leave. Google co-founder Sergey Brin was born in the Soviet Union in 1973 and lived there until age 6 when his family fled. He has said his experi- ence with a repressive regime shaped his and the company’s views. Pichai, who became CEO in 2015 when Goo- WILKES-BARRE, Pa. — President Don- ald Trump is renewing his campaign against the media, claiming at a Pennsylvania rally that the media is the “fake, fake disgusting news” and casting journalists as his true political opponent. Trump barnstormed Thursday night in a state that he swiped from the Democrats in 2016 and that is home to a Senate seat he is trying to place in the Republicans’ column this fall. But the race between GOP U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta and two-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey took a back seat to Trump’s invectives against the media, which came amid a backdrop of antagonism to journalists from the White House and hostility from the thou- sands packed into a loud, overheated Wil- kes-Barre arena. “Whatever happened to the free press? Whatever happened to honest reporting?” Trump asked, pointing to the media in the back of the hall. “They don’t report it. They only make up stories.” Time and time again, Trump denounced the press for underselling his accomplishments and doubting his political rise. He tore into the media for diminishing what he accomplished at his Singapore summit with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un. He tore into the tough questioning he received in Helsinki when he met with Russia’s Vladimir Putin last month. And he began the speech with a 10-min- ute remembrance of his 2016 election night victory, bemoaning that Pennsylvania wasn’t the state to clinch the White House for him only because “the fake news refused to call it.” With each denunciation, the crowd jeered and screamed at the press in the holding pen at the back of the arena. The inflammatory performance came just hours after White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to distance her- self from Trump’s previous assertions that the media is the “enemy” of the American people. Pressed during a White House briefing on the issue, Sanders said Trump “has made his posi- tion known.”
