Syria, China, Devin Nunes: Your Morning Briefing
• U.S. beef producers say that more than six months after China promised to end a ban imposed in 2003 over an American case of
mad cow disease, "The foreign market with the greatest growth potential — China — remains closed." • U.S. stocks were up.
[The New York Times] • Australia warned that terrorists might seek to target the April 25 Anzac Day commemorations, on the
Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, which honor the World War I battlefield losses Australia and New Zealand suffered there.
[BBC] • Reporters Without Borders, the Paris-based press freedom advocacy group, will open its first Asian bureau in Taipei, Taiwan’s capital, rather than Hong Kong, citing "a lack of legal certainty for our entity and activities." [The New York Times] • A new survey found
that 44 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of China, up from 37 percent last year, as concerns eased over China’s economic threat.
[The New York Times] • Dutch men around the world, regardless of their sexual orientation, held hands in support of
a gay couple who described being brutally beaten by a gang of young people in an eastern city in the Netherlands.
Here’s what you need to know: • U.S. defense officials are developing options for a military strike in response to the chemical weapons attack in Syria, officials said,
and the defense secretary traveled to Florida to discuss the crisis with President Trump.
And the embattled head of a congressional investigation into Trump aides’ ties to Russia and Russian election meddling, Devin Nunes, above, stepped down over reports
that he "may have made unauthorized disclosures of classified information." _____ • President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines appeared to abruptly abandon his policy of not antagonizing China, ordering his military to occupy all uninhabited islands, reefs and shoals his country claims in the South China Sea.
e for what is happening." Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the de facto leader of Myanmar, said the violence against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State was sometimes perpetrated by other Muslims.
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