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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
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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.”