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| Berlin, United Nations, Okinawa: Your Morning Briefing | Berlin, United Nations, Okinawa: Your Morning Briefing |
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| Good morning. | Good morning. |
| Here’s what you need to know: | Here’s what you need to know: |
| • President-elect Donald J. Trump added more turbulence to U.S. policy, pressuring President Obama to veto a U.N. resolution condemning the “construction and expansion” of Israeli settlements. | |
| His choice of an outspoken critic of China, Peter Navarro, to oversee trade policy is the latest sign that he intends to reshape dealings between the world’s two largest economies. | |
| The Obama administration is dismantling a dormant national registry program for visitors from countries with active terrorist groups after Mr. Trump seemed to suggest that the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin validated his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States. | The Obama administration is dismantling a dormant national registry program for visitors from countries with active terrorist groups after Mr. Trump seemed to suggest that the attack on a Christmas market in Berlin validated his proposal to bar Muslims from entering the United States. |
| And Mr. Trump’s transition team is asking employees at the State Department to give details of gender-equality programs, fanning fears of a rollback. | And Mr. Trump’s transition team is asking employees at the State Department to give details of gender-equality programs, fanning fears of a rollback. |
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| • “Who most wants to overthrow China?” | • “Who most wants to overthrow China?” |
| That’s the promotion for a widely circulating propaganda video that warns of the “devilish claws” of the West. Exactly who made it is unclear, but it’s a phantasmagoria of the Communist Party’s nightmares of foreign subversion. | That’s the promotion for a widely circulating propaganda video that warns of the “devilish claws” of the West. Exactly who made it is unclear, but it’s a phantasmagoria of the Communist Party’s nightmares of foreign subversion. |
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| • South Korea’s Constitutional Court resumes hearings on Tuesday on the move to impeach South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye. | • South Korea’s Constitutional Court resumes hearings on Tuesday on the move to impeach South Korea’s president, Park Geun-hye. |
| The case shifted Thursday from corruption accusations to suggestions that she neglected her duties on the day in 2014 when more than 300 people drowned, most of them teenagers on a school trip, in the sinking of a ferry. | The case shifted Thursday from corruption accusations to suggestions that she neglected her duties on the day in 2014 when more than 300 people drowned, most of them teenagers on a school trip, in the sinking of a ferry. |
| The court ordered Ms. Park to provide a detailed account of what she did that day. | The court ordered Ms. Park to provide a detailed account of what she did that day. |
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| • The Japanese government can begin removing spent shells and other detritus from nearly 10,000 acres of land on Okinawa returned by the U.S. armed forces. The parcel may eventually be turned into a national park. | |
| Opposition to the U.S. military presence on Okinawa remains intense. | |
| The governor of the prefecture boycotted the return ceremony on Thursday, issuing a statement that said: “I greatly regret that the U.S. military doesn’t have any consideration for the people of Okinawa.” | |
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| • The Syrian government controls all of Aleppo for the first time since 2012. | |
| The last evacuations from rebel-held areas of the city represent a turning point in the war and a morale-building victory for President Bashar Al-Assad’s troops. | |
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| • Alibaba’s stock plunged more than 2 percent on the New York Stock Exchange after the U.S. returned the company’s Taobao marketplace to its list of “notorious markets.” | • Alibaba’s stock plunged more than 2 percent on the New York Stock Exchange after the U.S. returned the company’s Taobao marketplace to its list of “notorious markets.” |
| Alibaba’s chief executive, Daniel Zhang, wrote a note to employees saying the company was “relentless” in the fight against counterfeiters and compared the American move to trade protectionism. | |
| • Game makers are trying to make video game competitions, or esports, more appealing to women. Revenue from esports is expected to surpass $1 billion by 2018. | • Game makers are trying to make video game competitions, or esports, more appealing to women. Revenue from esports is expected to surpass $1 billion by 2018. |
| • The Sensex, Mumbai’s stock exchange, fell for a seventh consecutive day and appears headed for the first back-to-back annual declines since 2001. | • The Sensex, Mumbai’s stock exchange, fell for a seventh consecutive day and appears headed for the first back-to-back annual declines since 2001. |
| • Shark experts and consumer advocates are urging Australian authorities to curtail a booming business in untested shark repellents. | • Shark experts and consumer advocates are urging Australian authorities to curtail a booming business in untested shark repellents. |
| • Nippon Paint Holdings Co. agreed to buy Dunn-Edwards, the 91-year-old Los Angeles-based household paint supplier, in a deal estimated to be worth $595 million. | • Nippon Paint Holdings Co. agreed to buy Dunn-Edwards, the 91-year-old Los Angeles-based household paint supplier, in a deal estimated to be worth $595 million. |
| • Existing technology could automate 45 percent of the tasks workers now perform, a recent report suggests. | • Existing technology could automate 45 percent of the tasks workers now perform, a recent report suggests. |
| • Here’s a snapshot of global markets. | • Here’s a snapshot of global markets. |
| • Expect a wide range of topics — terrorism, Syria, economics, U.S. politics — when President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia gives his annual news conference today. [Bloomberg] | • Expect a wide range of topics — terrorism, Syria, economics, U.S. politics — when President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia gives his annual news conference today. [Bloomberg] |
| • The arrest of a Perth man may be a break in the so-called Claremont serial killings, three deaths in 1996 and 1997 that set off Australia’s longest-running, most expensive police investigation. [ABC] | • The arrest of a Perth man may be a break in the so-called Claremont serial killings, three deaths in 1996 and 1997 that set off Australia’s longest-running, most expensive police investigation. [ABC] |
| • Analysts said the decision of a tiny African nation to cut off ties with Taiwan could trigger a domino effect of defections by Taiwan’s 21 remaining diplomatic partners, who could see China as the richer benefactor. [The New York Times] | |
| • Extreme warmth in the Arctic is alarming scientists, who warn of record-low ice coverage and more warming in a region that is among the hardest hit by climate change. [The New York Times] | • Extreme warmth in the Arctic is alarming scientists, who warn of record-low ice coverage and more warming in a region that is among the hardest hit by climate change. [The New York Times] |
| • A New York antiquities dealer renowned for her expertise in Indian and Southeast Asian art was arrested on suspicion of selling looted artifacts after forging documents to hide their history. [The New York Times] | • A New York antiquities dealer renowned for her expertise in Indian and Southeast Asian art was arrested on suspicion of selling looted artifacts after forging documents to hide their history. [The New York Times] |
| • The fire that claimed some 140 buildings in the Japanese city of Niigata on Thursday started in a ramen restaurant. [Asahi Shimbun] | • The fire that claimed some 140 buildings in the Japanese city of Niigata on Thursday started in a ramen restaurant. [Asahi Shimbun] |
| • Most of Chicago’s 3,451 shootings this year were gang related. The Times spent weeks with gang members to understand what being in one means. [The New York Times] | • Most of Chicago’s 3,451 shootings this year were gang related. The Times spent weeks with gang members to understand what being in one means. [The New York Times] |
| • The Isles of Scilly Football League has just two teams, but the smallest soccer league on the globe (yes, it’s pronounced “silly”) still gets the attention of the outside world. [The New York Times] | • The Isles of Scilly Football League has just two teams, but the smallest soccer league on the globe (yes, it’s pronounced “silly”) still gets the attention of the outside world. [The New York Times] |
| • The year in pictures. 2016 was so unexpected, so tumultuous that the fight has just begun over which narrative might possibly explain it. These images might help. | • The year in pictures. 2016 was so unexpected, so tumultuous that the fight has just begun over which narrative might possibly explain it. These images might help. |
| • The capitals of Latvia and Estonia are feuding over which had world’s first decorated Christmas tree. Civic pride and tourist dollars are at stake. | • The capitals of Latvia and Estonia are feuding over which had world’s first decorated Christmas tree. Civic pride and tourist dollars are at stake. |
| • And our latest 360 video takes you to Santa Claus Village in Finland, where the elves (postal workers) sort through about 700,000 letters each year. | • And our latest 360 video takes you to Santa Claus Village in Finland, where the elves (postal workers) sort through about 700,000 letters each year. |
| We all know what it’s like to get a less-than-ideal gift. Compare your own this season to some of the oddities our correspondents have received. | We all know what it’s like to get a less-than-ideal gift. Compare your own this season to some of the oddities our correspondents have received. |
| Alissa J. Rubin, our Paris bureau chief, remembers that, as a war correspondent in Iraq, she was given a copper-colored, plasticky statuette of an Egyptian sphinx: “It had translucent bright blue eyes, and it would light up.” Another one that sticks out: “A Saddam watch.” | Alissa J. Rubin, our Paris bureau chief, remembers that, as a war correspondent in Iraq, she was given a copper-colored, plasticky statuette of an Egyptian sphinx: “It had translucent bright blue eyes, and it would light up.” Another one that sticks out: “A Saddam watch.” |
| Marc Lacey, our national editor and a former international correspondent, still has an Iraqi translator’s disconcerting gift: “A painting by an artist said to have painted Saddam Hussein himself, showing a man in a flowing white robe on a majestic white steed holding a sword toward the heavens. He had my face.” | Marc Lacey, our national editor and a former international correspondent, still has an Iraqi translator’s disconcerting gift: “A painting by an artist said to have painted Saddam Hussein himself, showing a man in a flowing white robe on a majestic white steed holding a sword toward the heavens. He had my face.” |
| Jim Yardley, our Europe editor, recalls a range of gifts when he was covering China: “A plaque with a photograph of a local dam project. A few tea sets. And Olympics swag, including a stuffed doll of one of the Beijing mascots, ‘The Friendlies.’” | Jim Yardley, our Europe editor, recalls a range of gifts when he was covering China: “A plaque with a photograph of a local dam project. A few tea sets. And Olympics swag, including a stuffed doll of one of the Beijing mascots, ‘The Friendlies.’” |
| Andrew Jacobs, a correspondent, remembers another gift to the Beijing bureau: “a compressed Frisbee-sized disc of tea shaped in the image of the Chinese helicopter tycoon who was giving them out.” No one, he says, drank the tea. | Andrew Jacobs, a correspondent, remembers another gift to the Beijing bureau: “a compressed Frisbee-sized disc of tea shaped in the image of the Chinese helicopter tycoon who was giving them out.” No one, he says, drank the tea. |
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| We’re off on Monday. Your Morning Briefing will resume publishing on Tuesday. | We’re off on Monday. Your Morning Briefing will resume publishing on Tuesday. |
| What would you like to see here? Contact us at asiabriefing@nytimes.com. | What would you like to see here? Contact us at asiabriefing@nytimes.com. |