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BIG SH()TS 「Ⅳ当 1 USA The Other Red Phone Washington, D. C. ー President DonaId Trump speaks on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin for an hour as some OfhiS advisers look on in the OvaI Office on January 28. From left are Chiefof StaffReince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence,White House ChiefStrategist Steve Bannon, Press Secretary Sean Spicer and National S ecurity Advi se r Mi- ch ael Flynn. Trump and Putin vowed tO lmprove relations between the tWO countries and talked about fighting te rror- ism and expanding economic ties, but neither mentioned the possible lifting of U. S. sanctions against Russia, T / 肥 N ビル YO T われお reported. DREW ANGERER

talizing potential prize for U. S. compames and China is less likely t0 100k on those U. S. corporations favorably iftheir president is taking hO stile action against China. The Other potential weapon China holds is that it owns $ 1.115 trillion of U. S. Treasury bills, which is 29 percent of the U. S. $ 3.841 trillion foreign debt. China could decide t0 dump those assets and swallow any loss t0 punish the dollar. If the moment is not ideal for China t0 take up the burden 0f greater leadershiP' the opportunities presented by a U. S. withdrawal A U. S. PRESIDENT WHO PUBLICLY ADVOCATES TORTURE IS IN NO POSITION TO LECTURE CHINA ON ITS OWN HUMAN RIGHTS FAILINGS. from global responsibilities will nevertheless be hard tO resist for a leader bent on restor- ing China's greatness. The risks 0f failing t0 try are equally big: China's dependency on global trade means Xi must try tO shore up a trad- ing system that China still needs. At the same time, as the し S. steps back, China has an opportunity t0 challenge a U. S. -centered international order built on the values of individual freedom, democracy and the rule 0flaw. This may make it possible t0 achieve that most elusive pnze: the moral standing and respect that global lead- ership confers—that magical leverage that comes when a wealthy superpower reaches out tO help Other countnes or peoples. Even if it ultimately serves the superpower S mterests. A U. S. president wh0 questions climate science enhances the standing of a Chinese president wh0 stands by the paris Agreement, and whO sees the opportunities in a 10W carbon future, as well as the threat climate change poses t0 global prosperity. A U. S. president whO publicly adVO cate s torture is ln no position tO lecture China on its own human rights failings. And Trump s disdain for verifiable facts is a welcome distraction for Beijing, Often accused Of promoting questionable verslons Of 3 0 0 3 0 0 44EWSWEEK 32 0 2 / 1 0 / 2 017 0

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GLOBAL WARMING: China's President Xi 」 inping has an OPPOrtunity to position himself a statesman, even as he cracks down on dissent at home. コ 0N000 」エ . ← ~ 0- トくト S っ 7 ョ NEWSWEEK 27 02 / 10 / 2017

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push tO strike pacts with Other nations. The same day that Trump consigned the TPP t0 the Oval Offce wastebasket, a Chinese initiative had some good news tO share. The multilateral Asian lnfrastructure lnvestment Bank, which was set up by Beijing in 2015 tO finance infrastructure proJects across Asia, had received applications from 25 new prospectlve members fror れ Africa, Europe and South America, t0 add t0 the 57 existing shareholders. The し S. had been hostile tO the bank, seeing it as a challenge to existing institutions, such as the World Bank, and had declined t0 join; it chastised others, including the し K. , for sigmng on. Jin Liqun, the b ank 's Chi- nese president, tOld the F ⅲ 4 れ襯 , "China needs t0 d0 something that can help it be recog- nized as a responsible leader. signs 0f China's growing role as a champion of globalization kept coming. The following day, on January 24 , the prime minister 0f Malay- sia urged a speedy conclusion tO the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), China s own Pacific trade initiative involving 16 countrie s in the Asia-Pacific , which China promse S Will bOOSt e conomic integration in the region. TWO days later, the deputy prime mmis- ter ofThailand voiced a similar sense ofurgency. The prospective member countnes, which repre- sent 29 percent 0f global trade, are scheduled t0 meet in February in Japan tO conclude the pact. The battle between China and the U. S. for leadership in the Asia-Pacific re gion , the world's most dynamic of area econom1C growth, shifted remark- ably in just those few days, leaving America s regional allie s—nota- bly Japan, Australia and S outh Kore a—uncertain about what the changing balance 0f power and influence Will mean for their own futures. Until now, along with Taiwan and Vietnam, these three key U. S. allies have enjoyed the secu- rity guarante e Of Amer- 1Ca S military presence and the political reassur- ance 0f Obama's early decision to focus し S. foreign and trade pol- icy on the region. Along with that came the prosp ect 0f the world's THREE DAYS BEFORE Donald Trump t00k the oath 0f 0ffce and became the 45th president 0f the United States, Chinese Pres- ident Xi Jinping stOOd on the mmn stage at the World Economic Forum s annual meeting in the Swiss mountain resort Of Davos and alluded tO Charles Dickens. lt was, Xi told the gathering of the global business and policy elite,"the best Of times and the worst Of times. ” The Chinese president then delivered an uncompromislng defense ofglobalization, despite acknowledging its flaws. lt had, he said,"powered global growth and facilitated movement 0f goods and capital, advance S in SC1ence, technology and CiViliz ation, and interactions among people. Five days later, Trump made it as clear as possible that he did not share xi's enthusi- asm for international free trade deals. On Jan- uary 23 , the new president signed an order tO withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the hard-won trade deal negotiated under President Barack Obama. The TPP would have created a trade pact with 12 countries, including Japan, Peru and Vietnam, that together would have represented 40 percent 0f the g10bal economy. The deal deliberately excluded China, and many in Washington saw it as a way ofcontaining Chi- na S regional dominance. ln Beijing, Xi will likely have reacted t0 Trump s move tO withdraw from the TPP with mixed feelings. On the one hand, the decision delivered a significant blow to the era 0f free trade; but Xi would no doubt have celebrated the demise 0f a deal designed in part to hem in Chi- na s vast engine oftrade. As the U. S. was backing away from a mapr international agreement, China continued its ÅI ト 3979d38W001 28 N E W 5 W E E K 0 2 / 10 / 2 017

BIG SI-I(YIÄS U SA Vetting Extremism Munster, lndiana— The family oflsaaf Jamal Eddin gathered around her hospital bed on January 28 after learning that her daughter, a Syrian woman flying to the U. S. tO care for her mother after a mastectomy, had been stopped by a U. S. immigration offcer at Chicago s O'Hare lnternational Airport and sent back to Saudi Arabia. Her daughter was among the many people blocked by an exec- utive order, signed by President DonaId Trump on January 27 , that bars citizens of seven maJority-Mus- ⅱ 1 countries from e nte ring the country. PAUL BEATY dV 、 AIV38 nnVd

BIG SH()TS CHILE Heat Stroke Santa Olga, Chile— Exhausted firefighters on January 26 take a break from battling the chain ofover 100 wildfires that have burned almost a million acres and killed 11 people in central and southern ChiIe. AII firefighters in Chile are volun- teers, and residents have tried t0 fight the flames with tree branches and bottles ofwater, according to T んビ N 1 物 石襯ぉ . Chilean police arrested 43 people suspected oflighting some Ofthe fires, and President Michelle Bachelet said, "We are sure that there has been arson some ofthe fires. We will investigate this until the end," according to S outh American TV network Telesur. ー物 PABLO SANHUEZA

that showed offher long legs ・ Some- where out Of the frame, two former wives Of the president-elect, lvana Trump and Marla Maples already had notions of ambassadorships buzzing in their brains like vibrators. These queens in the House Of Trump—all of them having served variouslyas model arm candy, real- ity-show stars, humiliate d sidekicks and shopping channel mavens—are vestal virgins in the temple ofacqul- sition. They are significant even for those wh0 don't worship there for what they reveal about the emo- tional life ofthe 45th president ofthe United States and his views on the role Of women. During the course of Donald Trump's adult li , a sp an Of 50 years, America became a bet- ter, more tOle rant nation, and the 、Ⅳ 01 第 en S movement was a big rea- son why. Trump, however, is a living link tO another era. His first prenup- tial agreement was penned by mob lawyer, Senator Joseph McCarthy acolyte and Richard Nixon ally Roy C0hn. (Former President Barack Obama was in junior high when COhn wrote it up. ) Norman Vincent Peale—evangelist Of mid-20th- century self-improvement—pre- sided over his first wedding. When Trump first married, mar- ital rape was still exempted from American laws. ()n fact, in a divorce deposition, his first wife would accuse him Of marital rape, but she backtracked later and claimed she meant that she felt emotionally viO- lated. ) There were still famiIies—Trump s own for example—where the elder generation found the word 2 g れ 4 offensive. Abortion had been legal for only three years. Women were either Mrs. or Miss and were still vastly outnumbered by men in graduate schools (they are now m the maJ0rity). About half as many women worked outside the home as dO tOday. NOW that women are more independent and working mothers have pushed men a little into the drudgery ofdomestic work, some men are confronting an exlstential crisis. AS much as any lost factory jOb or fading national whiteness, putting Dad back in charge is the great' part ofTrump s "again ・ The wheels of that change are already rolling: Congressional defund- ing 0f Planned Parenthood means fewer legal abortions and less afford- able contraception, the repeal of Obamacare ends the federal mandate that insurers cover contraceptives, and Trump s promise tO appoint anti- choice judges will soon kill Roe Ⅳ 4 . Many Americans could soon be where women were when Trump was born—1946—giving birth whether they want tO or not and, consequently, unable to pursue careers. The Trump Queens, 1n many ways as surreal as their king, exist beyond the dramatic changes in the lives of the average American woman over the past half-century. They will preside over the court Of an end-times Camelot on acid , wielding enormous power over StyliStS and foreign dignitaries exchange for surviving the ultimate re ality-show chal- lenge: impressing Donald Trump, his fellow oligarchs and captains 0f supra- national corporations with the ir 100kS and poise. They have paid for that power ln measures Of dignity. AS the new pres- ident once said, "lt doesn t matter what they write [about yo 司 as long as you have a young and beautiful piece 0fass.