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Selasa, 04 Juni 2019

Trump to Meet May Amid Protests in London: Live Updates - The New York Times

President Trump and Melania Trump with Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, at Buckingham Palace in London on Monday.CreditDoug Mills/The New York Times

Here’s what you need to know:

On the second day, the president gets down to work.

President Trump arrived in Britain on Monday for a welcome full of pageantry: an 82-gun salute at Buckingham Palace, a look at a collection of gifts with Queen Elizabeth II and a lavish banquet with members of the royal family.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s schedule contains less pomp and more work.

He plans to attend a business round table at St. James’s Palace in the morning, followed by a meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain at her office at 10 Downing Street. Mr. Trump and Mrs. May are then scheduled to hold a joint news conference, and in the evening there will be a reception at the American ambassador’s residence.

Mr. Trump and Mrs. May are expected to discuss issues of security and trade, especially in the context of Brexit: Britain has hoped to strike a bilateral trade deal with the United States. It remains unclear what progress the two leaders might make, however, since Mrs. May is in the last days of her tenure in office, having agreed to step down as the leader of the Conservative Party after failing for almost three years to deliver Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union.

The president has criticized Mrs. May’s approach to Brexit before, and he has repeatedly praised the leading candidate to replace her, Boris Johnson. Before arriving in London, Mr. Trump suggested that he might meet with Mr. Johnson, the former foreign minister, calling him “a friend of mine.” He also suggested that he might meet with Nigel Farage, the leader of a pro-Brexit party.

“They’re two very good guys, very interesting people,” Mr. Trump told reporters last week.

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A protest over President Trump's state visit outside Buckingham Palace on Monday.CreditDan Kitwood/Getty Images

Protesters have vowed to bring London to a standstill.

A giant orange balloon of President Trump, depicted as a scowling baby wearing a diaper, was to be released over Parliament Square in London on Tuesday, kicking off a day of protests against the president’s state visit to Britain.

The same large balloon was the focal point of protests that broke out during the president’s working visit last July, his first trip to Britain in office.

Mr. Trump is unpopular around Britain, and especially in London. He has feuded with the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, since 2016 over immigration, terrorism and other issues, and on Monday he belittled the mayor again, accusing him of being “nasty” and mocking his stature.

Large crowds of protesters, potentially numbering in the tens of thousands, are expected to gather in central London at 11 a.m. and march toward Downing Street, where Mr. Trump will meet with Prime Minister Theresa May and hold a news conference.

The demonstrators have vowed to disrupt every stage of Mr. Trump’s visit by bringing central London to a standstill. Last year Mr. Trump largely avoided London and the protests that erupted there.

“We are coming out in bigger numbers this time to deliver our message loud and clear,” said Amy Hunter, a protester and member of the Stop Trump campaign. “Trump and his racist, divisive policies are not welcome in our country.”

Mr. Trump and Mrs. May are expected to discuss Huawei and China.

When Prime Minister Theresa May and President Trump meet on Tuesday, they are widely expected to discuss Huawei, the Chinese company whose 5G technology has been the subject of warnings from Washington to its allies about what it considers to be serious security risks.

Britain’s foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, seemed to expect as much during an interview with the BBC on Monday. As he was waiting for Air Force One to land, Mr. Hunt said he and others were sensitive to Washington’s concerns. “We take careful notice of everything the U.S. says on these issues,” he said.

The Pentagon and American intelligence officials have warned allies that Huawei, which has been lobbying to build the next-generation network, could intercept or secretly divert secure messages to China. They have also warned that Huawei, because of the relationship between the authorities and businesses in China, could be ordered to shut down the networks during any conflict.

Last month, the Trump administration placed the company and dozens of affiliates on a list of firms deemed a risk to national security, a move that prevents it from buying American parts or technologies without first receiving approval from the United States government.

It also issued a separate order barring American telecom companies from using foreign-made equipment that could pose a threat to national security. Without naming Huawei, it meant Huawei.

Mr. Hunt was giving no hint about which way Britain would go. “We haven’t made our final decision,” he said. “But we have also made it clear that we are considering both the technical issues — how you make sure there isn’t a backdoor so that a third country could use 5G to spy on us — but also the strategic issues so that you make sure that you are not technologically overdependent on a third country for absolutely vital technology.”

Alan Yuhas, Ceylan Yeginsu and Christine Spolar contributed reporting.

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2019-06-04 07:25:09Z
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Tiananmen: China rebukes Pompeo on 30th anniversary of protests - BBC News

China has rebuked US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for remarks he made on the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protest.

Mr Pompeo criticised China's human rights record and called for it to reveal how many died in the crackdown.

A Chinese embassy spokesman in Washington DC said his comments were "an affront to the Chinese people".

In 1989, a large political protest in Beijing triggered a brutal clampdown by the communist authorities.

The Chinese government has never said how many people died at Tiananmen Square, although estimates range from the hundreds to thousands.

On Monday, Mr Pompeo had urged China to "make a full, public accounting of those killed or missing to give comfort to the many victims of this dark chapter of history".

He also accused China of "[abusing] human rights whenever it serves its interests", giving the example of China cracking down on its minority Uighur people in the Xinjiang region.

Mr Pompeo said US "hopes have been dashed" of China becoming "a more open, tolerant society" through greater global integration.

On Tuesday, in a rare public reference to Tiananmen Square, the Chinese embassy said China had "reached the verdict on the political incident of the late 1980s long ago".

A spokesman said Mr Pompeo had "used the pretext of human rights" for a statement that "grossly intervenes in China's internal affairs".

It added that his remarks were filled with "prejudice and arrogance".

It also rebutted Mr Pompeo's comments about human rights in China, saying they were currently in their "best period ever" and that anyone who attempted to "patronise and bully the Chinese people... will only end up in the ash heap of history".

What happened in 1989?

More than one million pro-democracy protesters occupied Tiananmen Square in April 1989 and began the largest political demonstration in communist China's history. It lasted six weeks.

On the night of 3 June tanks moved in and troops opened fire, killing and injuring many unarmed people in and around Tiananmen Square.

Afterwards the authorities claimed no-one had been shot dead in the square itself.

How is the Tiananmen anniversary being marked?

Around the world, dozens of rallies are taking place to remember the victims and call for change.

In Hong Kong - a semi-autonomous region of China - 180,000 people are expected to turn out for a candlelight vigil on Tuesday evening.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is expected to attend a rally in Washington DC later.

What is the situation in Beijing on the anniversary?

China has never held any official acts of remembrance for the Tiananmen Square protests.

Ahead of the anniversary, Defence Minister Wei Fenghe made a rare mention of the protests during a regional forum in Singapore.

"That incident was a political turbulence and the central government took measures to stop the turbulence, which is a correct policy," he said.

He added that because of the government's action at that time "China has enjoyed stability and development".

In Tiananmen Square itself on Tuesday, in central Beijing, security remained tight, with police checking the identification cards of commuters leaving the subway station.

Many foreign journalists have not been allowed onto the square, those who have been allowed in were warned not to take pictures.

China has escalated its routine censorship of all references to Tiananmen or 1989 in the run-up to the anniversary.

However, some in China are remembering the event in their own ways.

Chen Wei is one of several activists who will be fasting for 24 hours on Tuesday.

The former student organiser told The Guardian that fasting was the one thing that "could not be restricted" by authorities.

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2019-06-04 06:50:36Z
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Trump to Meet May Amid Protests in London: Live Updates - The New York Times

Here’s what you need to know:

On the second day, the president gets down to work.

On Tuesday, Mr. Trump’s schedule contains less pomp and more work.

“They’re two very good guys, very interesting people,” Mr. Trump told reporters last week.

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A protest over President Trump's state visit outside Buckingham Palace on Monday.CreditDan Kitwood/Getty Images

Protesters have vowed to bring London to a standstill.

The same large balloon was the focal point of protests that broke out during the president’s working visit last July, his first trip to Britain in office.

The demonstrators have vowed to disrupt every stage of Mr. Trump’s visit by bringing central London to a standstill. Last year Mr. Trump largely avoided London and the protests that erupted there.

Mr. Trump and Mrs. May are expected to discuss Huawei and China.

It also issued a separate order barring American telecom companies from using foreign-made equipment that could pose a threat to national security. Without naming Huawei, it meant Huawei.

Alan Yuhas, Ceylan Yeginsu and Christine Spolar contributed reporting.

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2019-06-04 07:19:55Z
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Senin, 03 Juni 2019

Mexican foreign minister says tariffs would have dire consequences, won’t affect immigration policy - The Washington Post

Mexico’s foreign minister warned Monday of dire economic consequences if the United States imposes the tariffs that President Trump has threatened as punishment for the flow of migrants transiting to the U.S. border. Marcelo Ebrard, who spoke at a news conference in Washington, said the threat would have no impact on Mexico’s immigration policy.

“Mexico is ready to work on issues of common interest,” Ebrard said. “The imposition of tariffs will have a counterproductive effect and would not reduce the migratory flow.”

Ebrard said he and other officials would spend the next several days attempting to persuade the White House not to follow through on the tariffs, which Ebrard and the other Mexican officials said would be disastrous.

“What are we doing? Diplomacy,” he said.

But it remained unclear what shifts in immigration enforcement Mexico could propose that would satisfy Trump. The Trump administration has said Mexico must do more to secure its southern border with Guatemala and interdict buses of migrants.

The administration has also urged the implementation of a so-called “safe third country” agreement that would pressure asylum seekers to apply for residence in Mexico rather than the United States, making it easier for U.S. immigration agents to turn them around if they show up at the border.

Ebrard said Monday that such a policy “would not be acceptable to Mexico.”

He emphasized that Mexico’s main proposal to stop migration is to invest in Central America and that its immigration policy was bound by international treaties on migration, Mexico’s constitution “and its own dignity.”

“If there are only punitive actions, it’s not going to work,” Ebrard said, adding that so far the United States has been slow to cooperate on a joint aid program to reduce migration.

“We don’t have until today a single project in place,” he said.

Other senior Mexican officials spoke at the news conference about what would be lost if the tariffs were implemented. The agricultural industry would lose $1.4 billion a year with a 5 percent tariff, said Víctor Villalobos, Mexico’s secretary for agriculture and rural development.

The tariffs would be very damaging, not just for Mexico “but for the supply chain every day that produces goods in Mexico and in the United States,” said Mexico’s economy secretary, Graciela Márquez Colín.

Other Mexican officials talked about the impact the tariffs would have on the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Hours before Trump made the threat of tariffs, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador sent the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — the deal, dubbed NAFTA 2.0, that Trump has boasted about — to Mexico’s Senate for ratification. That vote has not yet been held.

“We came up with very good agreement, one that Trump himself has celebrated. What we need to do is what we were doing last week,” said Jesus Seade, Mexico’s deputy foreign minister for North America.

“All of a sudden we have this enormous distraction,” he said.

In a Sunday tweet, López Obrador, referring to himself in the third person, wrote, “The president of Mexico wants to continue being a great friend of President Trump.”

That was a striking change in tone from a letter López Obrador sent to Trump on Thursday, in which he said Trump’s “America first” policy was “a fallacy.”

Over the last few days, Ebrard had been periodically live-tweeting Mexico’s preparations for its meetings with American diplomats on the tariff issue. There was a selfie at the airport, a picture of Mexican diplomats in a boardroom and a photo of Márquez Colín, the Mexican economy secretary, with U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

In his tweets, as in his news conference, Ebrard attempted to offer reassurance that the threat of tariffs could be averted through diplomacy.

“The contacts are multiplying. The negotiation is ongoing,” he wrote under the photo of Márquez Colín and Ross.

In another tweet, he warned the United States of the policy’s consequences in the agricultural industry. “Avoid shooting yourself in the foot,” he wrote.

What is Mexico doing — and not doing — to keep migrants from crossing into the U.S.?

Grave concerns over tariffs reflected in Mexico’s diplomatic push for a deal

Today’s coverage from Post correspondents around the world

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2019-06-03 16:11:00Z
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Chipotle says Mexican tariffs could cost it an additional $15 million, possibly forcing price rises - CNBC

Chipotle Mexican Grill said its 2019 costs could rise by about $15 million this year if President Donald Trump's proposed tariffs on Mexican imports are enacted, and that could mean price increases.

"If the tariffs become permanent, we would look to offset these costs through other margin improvement efforts already underway," CFO Jack Hartung said in a statement. "We could also consider passing on these costs through a modest price increase, such as about a nickel on a burrito, which would cover the increased cost without impacting our strong value proposition."

Chipotle said its net income last year rose to $176.6 million, $6.31 per share, on revenue of $4.9 billion. Excluding asset impairments and restructuring costs, the company earned $253.4 million, or $9.06 per share. The company's results were helped by price increases it put in place late in the year.

Chipotle was already expecting food costs in the second quarter to be 1% higher than the first quarter due to rising avocado prices. Tariffs would mean prices could be even higher.

Trump on Thursday threatened to put 5% tariffs on all Mexican goods beginning June 10 if the country doesn't help prevent the flow of illegal immigrants, mostly from Central America, over the U.S. border. Under Trump's plan, the tariffs would gradually increase and could rise as high as 25% this year.

Chipotle said Friday its supply chain team has been working to diversify its produce sources consistent with "our food with integrity principles," and said it is not willing compromise those principles.

"We know that we could easily solve the volatility in our supply chain by purchasing premashed or processed avocados, which would be cheaper, readily available and provide stability, but we are committed to our brand purpose and upholding our food with integrity principles," Hartung said. "We believe that using whole, fresh ingredients and making guacamole by hand in our restaurants each day leads to better tasting guacamole that our customers deserve and expect from Chipotle."

In the first quarter, restaurant-level operating margins accelerated to 21%, thanks to higher same-store restaurant sales increases and lower repair and maintenance expenses. This was partially offset by wage inflation as well as higher marketing and promotional costs and delivery expenses due to increased delivery sales.

Those higher operating margins helped it earn $88.1 million, or $3.13 per share, in the first quarter on a net basis. After excluding one-time items like restructuring costs, Chipotle earned $3.40 per share, on an adjusted basis, on sales $1.31 billion.

Chipotle estimated the tariffs could reduce 2019 margins by 20 to 30 basis points.

An employee scoops guacamole at a Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. restaurant in El Segundo, California, U.S., on Wednesday, July 25, 2018.

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Analysts say Chipotle isn't the only brand that may suffer from the price increase that would come from the Mexico tariffs. However, the company is one of the first to specify the cost pressure it could see.

"Anyone with avocados would be hurt most by Mexico import tariffs," says R.J. Hottovy, senior restaurant analyst at Morningstar. "Chipotle would be the most likely candidate."

Hottovy also called out other smaller chains including Fiesta Restaurant Group and Chuy's that wouldn't be able to hedge against tariffs as easily.

"A 5% tariff probably wouldn't hurt any single company that much, but the risk is whether we see any future escalation in tariffs," he said.

While Chipotle does not give formal guidance on food costs, on its first-quarter earnings call Hartung said the company believes food costs will be around 33% of its revenue. He said avocado prices spiked in March based on higher demand, and the company is projecting higher food costs in the second quarter.

The stock, which has a market value of $18.3 billion, has been the best performer in the restaurant space this year, up more than 52% in 2019. It was down 1.7% Monday morning.

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2019-06-03 15:44:12Z
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UK teen mowed giant penis into a field for Trump to see as he landed in London | TheHill - The Hill

A teenager in Bishop's Stortford, a city outside of London, mowed the shape of a penis into a field along with the message "Oi Trump" in hopes that the U.S. president would see it on his flight into the U.K. this week.

According to the Bishop's Stortford Independent, the 18-year-old student, Ollie Nancarrow, mowed the message in the field along the Stansted Airport flight path so that President TrumpDonald John Trump Head of Trump's Council of Economic Advisers to depart administration The Guardian editorial board says Trump is 'not welcome' in U.K. ahead of his first state visit Kushner casts doubt on the ability of Palestinians to govern themselves MORE would see it as he landed for a state visit early Monday morning.

Nancarrow also mowed the message "climate change is real" and the image of a polar bear into the field.

The teen told Bishop's Stortford Independent: “Donald Trump and his denial of climate change are not welcome and I want him to be fully aware of that when he flies in to Stansted on Monday.”

Nancarrow, who is studying product design and business studies at his local high school, runs a website called born-eco.com which focuses on helping consumers find eco-friendly traders.

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— born_eco (@born_eco) June 2, 2019

Trump has long cast doubt on the existence and effects of climate change. In late 2018, Trump downplayed a U.S. government report on the environment, telling reporters that he didn't believe its warnings about the economic impacts of climate change.

He has previously suggested that climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese and has cited winter storms to push back on the idea of global warming.

The phallic welcome message for Trump comes as the president is expected to face massive protests in the country later this week.

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2019-06-03 14:42:09Z
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Queen Elizabeth II shows President Trump royal artifacts - CNN

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2019-06-03 14:08:32Z
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