Síntesis informativa - 24 de junio 2020
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Biden Takes Dominant Lead as Voters Reject Trump on Virus and Race
A New York Times/Siena College poll finds that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is ahead of the president by 14 points, leading among women and nonwhite voters and cutting into his support with white voters.
The global economy will shrink 4.9 percent this year, the I.M.F. predicts in a more dismal forecast.
The International Monetary Fund warned on Wednesday that the global economy faces an even deeper downturn than it previously projected as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sow uncertainty and businesses around the world struggle to shake off the virus.
Pummeled by the virus, Russia holds a mostly mask-free victory parade.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Wednesday celebrated his country’s victory 75 years ago against Nazi Germany, presiding over an enormous military parade through Red Square in Moscow that featured thousands of soldiers marching shoulder-to-shoulder without face masks.
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RUSSIA TODAY
Responsibility for deadly border clash ‘lies entirely’ with India, Beijing claims
The deadly skirmish that erupted in a disputed area in the Himalayas last week should be blamed squarely on India, China’s defense ministry has argued. New Delhi has disputed Beijing’s account of the clash.
https://www.rt.com/news/492791-india-china-responsible-border-clash/
Iran has ‘no problem’ talking to US if it apologizes & offers refund over nuclear deal – President Rouhani
Nothing is preventing Tehran from engaging in talks with Washington, provided that it comes up with apologies – and reimbursement – for losses in the 2015 nuclear pact America walked out on, President Hassan Rouhani has said.
https://www.rt.com/news/492781-iran-talks-us-apologies/
New additions & battle-proven hardware on display as Russia marks 75th anniversary of Nazi defeat with military parade (PHOTOS)
The centrepiece of Russia’s rescheduled Victory Day celebrations, marking the historic defeat of Hitler's Germany 75 years ago, featured a show of military prowess both on the ground in Red Square and in the skies over Moscow.
https://www.rt.com/russia/492779-russia-victory-day-parade/
US hasn’t requested more money to host American troops, Japan says after Bolton’s reported remarks
Washington has not asked Japan to pay more to keep US troops in the country, Defense Minister Taro Kono said on Tuesday. The statement came after a report cited former National Security Advisor John Bolton as saying he conveyed President Donald Trump’s demand for an eight-billion-dollar annual payment, Reuters reported.
https://www.rt.com/newsline/492672-japan-bolton-us-troops/
India’s govt to expel half Pakistan’s embassy staff ‘over espionage’
The Indian government said on Tuesday it intended to expel half the staff in Pakistan’s embassy in New Delhi over what it said was spying by officials there.
https://www.rt.com/newsline/492712-india-expel-pakistan-embassy/
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THE GUARDIAN
North Korea suspends plan to increase military pressure on South
The North Korean leader vetoed measures that are thought to have included the redeployment of troops neat the border between the two countries, apparently in retaliation for Seoul’s inability to prevent defector groups from sending propaganda leaflets into the North.
No reason was given for the decision, but some experts speculated that the regime had decided to row back on its threats to give the South the opportunity to offer concessions.
Rise of Iran hardliners threatens nuclear diplomacy, Europe warned
The European 3 (E3) – Germany, France and the UK - managed to maintain their unity at a meeting on Friday at which they agreed to keep the nuclear deal alive, oppose a US plan for the snapback of sanctions and possibly limit the lifting of the UN conventional arms embargo on Iran due to take place in the autumn.
But the deal limiting Iran’s nuclear programme, signed in 2015, is hanging by a thread after the UN nuclear watchdog the IAEA declared for the first time that Iran was not cooperating with its inspectors at two key nuclear sites. In a warning shot, the IAEA board, including the Europeans, voted to urge Iran to cooperate.
Head of international criminal court accuses US of acting unlawfully
Chile Eboe-Osuji said the punitive measures announced by the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, this month were an attempt at coercion that went against international law as well as domestic law in the US and elsewhere.
US officials are especially sensitive to an investigation in Afghanistan because, along with atrocities committed by the Taliban, government troops and western military forces deployed there, the ICC would also investigate serious abuses committed by the CIA and other US intelligence agencies.
The CIA ran secret prisons in Afghanistan after the US-led invasion in 2001 where torture and other abuse of detainees was systematic. These “black sites” were linked to a programme in which suspected violent extremists were seized from dozens of countries and held in a network of secret detention facilities around the world, including several in Poland, Lithuania and Romania.
Latin America coronavirus deaths top 100,000
The number of people who have died from coronavirus in Latin America surpassed 100,000 on Tuesday, according to a Reuters tally of registered deaths, while Mexico announced a record one-day total for new infections.
In recent weeks Latin America has emerged as the epicentre of the pandemic, with a spike in cases and deaths even as the tide of infection recedes elsewhere on the planet.Mexico has been the worst hit-nation in the region after Brazil, where a judge on Tuesday ordered President Jair Bolsonaro to wear a mask in public after the right-wing populist attended political rallies without one in the middle of the world’s second-worst coronavirus outbreak.
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AL JAZEERA
N Korea's Kim suspends plans for military action against S Korea
North Korea has announced it will suspend "military action plans" against South Korea, after a meeting of the governing party's Central Military Commission presided over by leader Kim Jong Un, the official KCNA news agency said on Wednesday.
The video conference meeting on Tuesday also discussed documents outlining measures for "further bolstering the war deterrent of the country", KCNA reported.
Syrian army says Israel hit several bases across country
The Syrian army says it has responded to Israeli attacks on southern, central and eastern Syria in which two soldiers were killed in what military defectors and intelligence sources said was a wave of raids that targeted Iranian bases.
The army said late on Tuesday that Israeli jets hit an army outpost in Salamiya and another in Sabura towns in Hama province only hours after missiles struck other military installations in Deir Az Zor province along the border with Iraq and in southern Syria near the border with Jordan.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/syrian-army-israel-hit-bases-country-200624044500070.html
Saudi Arabia condemns attacks by Yemen's Houthis on Riyadh
Saudi Arabia's cabinet has condemned Yemen's Houthis for targeting the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with eight armed drones and three ballistic missiles, state news agency SPA said in a statement.
The statement late on Tuesday called the attacks "terroristic acts" that target civilians and threatened the lives of hundreds of people.
Arab League calls for Libya ceasefire, peace talks
Arab foreign ministers said on Tuesday that they wanted to avoid a new battle in Libya and called for a truce as the warring sides mobilise near the main oil region as their foreign backers threaten an escalation.
"Libya is passing through a dangerous turn in the course of its conflict," Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said in a statement.
Scores of countries back ICC in face of US sanctions
Sixty-seven member states of the International Criminal Court have thrown their support behind the body, after an unprecedented US move to impose sanctions on its staff.
In a joint statement drafted by Costa Rica and Switzerland, more than half of the 123 of the ICC's members showed their "unwavering support" for the tribunal and the Rome Statute that created it, according to Judge O-Gon Kwon, who is president of the Assembly of States Parties and represents South Korea.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/scores-countries-icc-face-sanctions-200624025450554.html
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GLOBAL TIMES
Cooperation key to China-EU ties: Global Times editorial
China-EU cooperation will be an expanding trend, and this is determined by the two sides' fundamental interests. China has set the comprehensive opening-up as a basic national policy, and the EU is not as obsessed with global hegemony as the US is. This shows there is no fundamental conflict of interests between China and the EU, and there are not too many strategic obstacles in their cooperation.
The EU is not a middle force that passively stays between China and the US. It wants to participate more proactively in shaping the future world, and to show more independence to both China and the US. This may reflect the true face of the multipolar world. International relations are becoming more complex.
There are differences in values between China and the EU. The EU's values are non-negotiable, and neither are China's. But the two sides need to avoid a fierce conflict of values, prevent such differences from affecting the two sides' common interests, and tolerate each other.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192578.shtml
India knows US won’t help it achieve its goals
The relationship between Washington and New Delhi is far from how some Westerners have trumpeted. The two sides are merely making use of each another. The US is treating India as its pawn to promote the Indo-Pacific Strategy, contain the rising China and safeguard its global hegemony. India, on the other hand, is making use of its ties with the US to counterbalance China's influence in Southeast Asia and as a deterrent to Pakistan. Yet India is well aware the US won't really help it achieve its goals
https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1192579.shtml
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LE MONDE
Entre la France et la Turquie, une relation toujours plus houleuse
Alliés au sein de l’OTAN, les deux pays s’accusent mutuellement de se livrer « à un jeu dangereux » en Libye, où l’un soutient le gouvernement national et l’autre le maréchal Haftar.
Marie Jégo
Alliées au sein de l’OTAN, la France et la Turquie ont échangé des accusations la semaine dernière après un incident maritime survenu en Méditerranée entre des navires de guerre turcs et la frégate française Courbet. A trois reprises, l’un des navires turcs a actionné son radar de tir contre le Courbet, un acte particulièrement choquant entre alliés. Paris accuse Ankara de violations répétées de l’embargo sur les armes livrées à la Libye, imposé par l’ONU en 2011. La Turquie nie pour sa part avoir harcelé le navire français.
Libye : Haftar sanctuarise son bastion avec l’appui russe
Libye, nouvelle Syrie ? (3/6). Depuis la défaite du maréchal dissident Khalifa Haftar aux portes de Tripoli, ses parrains étrangers s’emploient à l’aider à fortifier son bastion de Libye orientale.
Benoît Vitkine y Benjamin Barthe
Pour Moscou, le dossier libyen, symbole de la perfidie occidentale depuis le renversement en 2011 de Mouammar Kadhafi par l’OTAN, recèle une forte charge symbolique. Si la Russie ne prétend plus jouer les premiers rôles en Libye, son soutien à Haftar, souterrain et en grande partie opéré par le biais de la compagnie de mercenaires Wagner, lui a permis de remettre le pied sur ce théâtre. Le profil du maréchal, comme ses liens anciens avec la Russie en ont fait le candidat idéal, et un outil d’influence opportun.
Brexit, coronavirus, électrification… au Royaume-Uni, « la survie de l’industrie automobile est en jeu »
Comme ailleurs dans le monde, la fermeture des usines pendant plus de deux mois en raison de l’épidémie due au coronavirus et l’effondrement des ventes de véhicules diesel ces dernières années provoquent une crise sévère.
Eric Albert
Dans un tel scénario, la SMMT prévoit une production de seulement 850 000 véhicules en 2025, son plus bas niveau depuis… 1953. Si un accord est trouvé avec l’UE, elle espère un rebond, et une production qui reviendrait à 1,3 million de véhicules en 2025. Mais même ce scénario « optimiste » constituerait un fort déclin par rapport aux années 2014-2018, quand la barre d’un million et demi de véhicules était franchie.
Au Brésil, Bolsonaro utilise à son avantage la crise du Covid-19
La pandémie produit ce dont le président brésilien a le plus besoin : le chaos, qui lui a permis de ressouder son gouvernement et de remobiliser sa base.
Bruno Meyerfeld
Surtout, Jair Bolsonaro est parvenu à remobiliser sa base. Ses discours prêchant la réouverture de l’économie à tout prix ont sonné juste à l’oreille d’une bonne partie de la population, sceptique sur la gravité réelle du virus ou meurtrie par la crise économique en cours. Un Brésilien sur trois soutient toujours mordicus l’action du chef de l’Etat, et un sur cinq croit systématiquement à ses déclarations : un taux stable depuis un an. Autant de troupes jusqu’au-boutistes que rien ne semble pouvoir ébranler.
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DEUTSCHE WELLE
Stoltenberg: US presence in Europe is important for NATO
I value Germany as a very strong and important ally. And Germany is now actually investing significantly more in defense. Germany has added 40% to their defense budget over the last years. And Germany has plans in place to increase it by 80% over a decade. That is significant.
And it also helps to the total NATO defense spending, which has increased by a hundred and thirty billion dollars over the last four years.
we expect Germany to do even more. And expect all allies to make good on their pledge to invest 2% of GDP on that.
What we have seen over the last year was actually that the United States has increased their presence in Europe with more troops, more exercises, more prepositioned equipment. Now, the president has announced a reduction.
https://m.dw.com/en/stoltenberg-us-presence-in-europe-is-important-for-nato/a-53918183
Why is the Iranian regime wary of Instagram?
Iranian authorities are reportedly mulling a ban on Instagram, a popular social media platform in the Islamic country. DW analyzes why the hardline Shiite regime continues to feel threatened by the power of the internet.
Instagram, an American photo and video-sharing social networking service, occupies 60 to 70% of Iran's internet bandwidth, according to Qomi, who also claimed that around a third of cybercrime in the country is operated through Instagram.
Facebook and Twitter were blocked after the 2009 parliamentary elections, but they can still be accessed through proxy servers. Thereafter, most Iranians switched to Telegram, but the regime banned it after the 2017-18 nationwide protests.
"The government cannot control content on Western social networks, and it has no influence on what is said and shared on these platforms, and that is why it sees them as a threat."
https://m.dw.com/en/why-is-the-iranian-regime-wary-of-instagram/a-53915013
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BLOOMBERG
U.S. Eyes $3.1 Billion of EU, U.K. Imports for New Tariffs
The City of London Has a Slavery Problem
Many of the financial district’s most venerable names were built off colonial oppression.
Oil Declines With Rising Inventories and Renewed Virus Spread
Shale Oil Recovery Is Seen Taking Years After Decade of Excess
Bank Dividends in Peril With Crisis Veterans Warning of Trouble
Singapore’s Tracing Token to Have Battery That Can Last 9 Months
Jack Ma Dethroned as China's Richest by Tencent's Pony Ma
Brazil’s Central Bank Suspends WhatsApp Payments
Facebook to Discontinue Entry-Level Oculus Go Virtual Reality Headset
Mega-Cap Rally Brings Alphabet Back Near $1 Trillion Value
Sony’s Plan to Wring More Revenue From Chip Arm: Subscriptions
Iran Says It’s Ready to Work With Atomic Watchdog After UN Rebuke
Putin Shows Military Might at WWII Parade Ahead of Key Vote
Libya’s Future Hinges on a Proxy Standoff in Qaddafi’s Home Town
Merkel’s Popularity Surge Puts German Greens on the Back Foot
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THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
How Coronavirus Upended a Trillion-Dollar Corporate Borrowing Binge and Kicked Off a Wave of Bankruptcies
Companies had loaded up on debt after years of low interest rates, buyouts and increasingly lax lending standards.
Coronavirus Races Across Brazil and Latin America, a Warning to Poor Nations
Continent accounted for nearly half the world’s Covid-19 deaths in past two weeks; millions falling back into poverty
IMF Downgrades Already-Glum Economic Outlook Due to Coronavirus Crisis
Global economy will shrink 4.9% this year, compared with its April estimate of 3%
Dell Explores Spinoff of $50 Billion Stake in VMware
PC maker is saddled with sluggish shares and heavy debt load
Apple Is the Newest Chip Giant in Town
The iPhone maker’s move to make an increasing number of parts for its products has roiled suppliers
https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-is-the-newest-chip-giant-in-town-11592910000?mod=tech_lead_pos5
Artificial Intelligence Helps to Decode Mysterious Earthquake Swarms
Seismologists use software to uncover complexity of fault systems; work could yield insights into how earthquakes originate
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EL PAÍS
López Obrador redobla el choque con los organismos autónomos de México
La hostilidad del presidente hacia algunas instituciones independientes aviva el temor a una concentración de poder en el país
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gana las primarias demócratas en Nueva York
La congresista de origen puertorriqueño supera con holgura a su rival, la expresentadora de televisión Michelle Caruso-Cabrera
https://elpais.com/internacional/2020-06-24/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-gana-en-nueva-york.html
Putin llama a los vencedores de la Segunda Guerra Mundial a recuperar el orden establecido
El presidente ruso defiende la estructura del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU y la capacidad de veto de sus miembros permanentes para garantizar la paz
Israel afronta un alto precio en el mundo árabe por la anexión de Cisjordania
La reacción regional amenaza con tirar por la borda largos años de acercamiento a los países suníes
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PÁGINA 12
La autocrítica de la derecha brasileña
Desde Río de Janeiro.Aunque esperada, no deja de sorprender la autocrítica de la derecha brasileña, en la voz de Pedro Cafardo, editor ejecutivo de Valor, el periódico de la gran comunidad empresarial brasileña. Causa furor porque la élite brasileña, responsable de las desgracias que vive el país, nunca asumió sus responsabilidades.
Afirma que la clase dominante de Brasil fue responsable por la elección de Jair Bolsonaro y necesita hacer un mea culpa por su elección. Critica a empresarios, políticos y periodistas influyentes que aún no se han disculpado por la elección de Bolsonaro y que, según él, eluden sus responsabilidades. “Los políticos influyentes fueron omisos en la campaña electoral y dieron un aire de ‘joder el país’”, escribió Cafardo.
https://www.pagina12.com.ar/274195-la-autocritica-de-la-derecha-brasilena
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EL TIEMPO
En Estados Unidos se espera que contagios suban exponencialmente
Casi la mitad de los estados en EE. UU. han reportado grandes incrementos en las infecciones por covid-19 en los últimos días y se espera, según expertos, que el número siga creciendo de manera exponencial esta semana, ahora que el país ha reactivado buena parte de su actividad económica.
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LA JORNADA
Juez concede recurso contra el Tren Maya
El juzgado segundo de distrito de amparo y juicios federales en el estado de Chiapas, con residencia en Tuxtla Gutiérrez, concedió una suspensión definitiva a la comunidad indígena Ch’ol contra la ejecución del proyecto de Tren Maya, en el tramo uno, que comprende de Palenque a Escárcega.
El recurso tiene como efectos detener cualquier actividad relativa a la implementación del proyecto, salvo la relacionada con el mantenimiento de vías. Sin embargo, el juicio de amparo no se ha resuelto y está pendiente de que la juez segunda de distrito en materia de amparo y juicios federales de ese estado dicte la sentencia.
Trump busca 'oxígeno' en el muro para lograr su relección
Nueva York. Donald Trump se fue a esconder detrás de su muro después de una semana políticamente desastrosa para él, de nuevo puso en riesgo a miles al convocar otro mitin de campaña para su relección justo donde brotes de contagio del Covid-19 están marcando récord, sembró dudas sobre la legitimidad de los comicios de noviembre y elogió a su homólogo en México, a quien espera ver pronto en Washington.
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