Tuesday: What a modern-day Cold War would look like

Khashoggi, Pets in China, Taiwan View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Tuesday, October 23, 2018 [NYTimes.com »]( ADVERTISEMENT Asia Edition [Your Tuesday Briefing]( By ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA Good morning. A Saudi journalist’s last steps, an apology for sexual abuse, a rare sea cucumber. Here’s what you need to know: A News, via Reuters • Jamal Khashoggi’s final hours. [Security camera footage]( of Mr. Khashoggi’s last day was leaked to Turkish news media ahead of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s televised address to Parliament today. He has promised to reveal the true details of Mr. Khashoggi death. Mr. Khashoggi is seen, at one point, holding hands with his fiancée, leaving a marriage office. They are pictured above visiting the apartment building where they were planning to live. Then they took a taxi to the Saudi consulate — where the dissident journalist would meet his brutal fate. Another new piece of evidence: After Mr. Khashoggi was killed inside the consulate, a member of the Saudi team left the building [dressed in the journalist’s clothes]( surveillance images showed. Meanwhile, the consultancy [McKinsey & Company]( is facing intense scrutiny for its role in Saudi Arabia’s efforts to target its online critics. _____ EPA, viaShutterstock • Fears of a new Cold War, with China in the mix. President Trump’s decision to pull out of an arms control treaty with Russia was as much about Beijing as the Kremlin. China was not a signatory to the 1987 I.N.F. treaty, which restricted intermediate-range nuclear missiles and helped ease Cold War tensions. So it has been free to build up its arsenal, now one of its primary tools to keep the U.S. at a distance in the Pacific. Experts worry that the U.S. is now on [the brink of a 1950s-style weapons race]( with both Russia and China, and that neither adversary has much incentive to come to the bargaining table. _____ Pedro Pardo/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images • Migrant caravan heads to the U.S. An estimated 7,000 Central American migrants have been [making their way toward the U.S. border](. The Mexican government, under pressure from the U.S., tried to halt the asylum-seekers’ progress as they crossed the border from Guatemala. But thousands defied orders to submit themselves to immigration processing and instead continued their journey north. Caravans of this kind usually number in the hundreds and pass unnoticed. This group, pictured above, is by far the largest on record, and it has received heavy attention from the news media. President Trump [has seized on the the issue]( to fire up his base, two weeks ahead of midterm elections. [Here’s a tip sheet]( for our midterm coverage. _____ Johnson Lai/Associated Press • Investigating a train crash. Taiwanese authorities are looking into one of [the island’s deadliest rail accidents]( in decades. All eight of the Puyama Express’ cars derailed on Sunday, killing 18 people — among them a family returning from a wedding — and injuring almost 200. The conductor had reported problems with the power system multiple times before the accident, the local news media reported. In footage released by Taiwan’s rail authority, the train showed no signs of slowing down as it hurtled toward a bend. “My government is sparing no efforts in helping the families of the victims in all possible ways,” said President Tsai Ing-wen on Twitter. _____ Business Yuyang Liu for The New York Times • The U.S.-China trade war is claiming another victim: cats and dogs in China hooked on tasty, trustworthy [American pet food](. • UBS discouraged dozens of wealth managers from travelling to China after one of the Swiss bank’s employees was [prevented from flying home]( to Singapore from Beijing. • Pregnancy discrimination takes many forms. [An investigation by The Times]( tells the stories of women in strenuous jobs who miscarried after their employers denied requests for light duty, even ignoring doctor’s notes. The practice is often legal in the U.S. • In memoriam: [Walter Kwok]( a Hong Kong property tycoon who survived a kidnapping in 1997 but later lost control of his family’s company, Sun Hung Kai. He was 68. • U.S. stocks [were mixed](. Here’s a snapshot of [global markets](. In the News Mick Tsikas/AAP, via Reuters • Australia officially apologized for the government’s failure to protect children from sexual abuse, a moment of reckoning almost a year after a [government inquiry]( uncovered a decades-long epidemic. “We are sorry,” said Prime Minister Scott Morrison, above. [[The New York Times]( • Rescue workers in China are trying to save 18 coal miners trapped in a tunnel in the eastern Shandong province. Above, a rescued worker carried on a stretcher. [[CNN]( • The world’s longest sea bridge opens today, looping through Hong Kong, Macau and the Chinese city of Zhuhai. [[The Guardian]( • The headless chicken monster — an elusive sea cucumber that looks, well, like a headless chicken — was filmed off the southwest coast of Australia. [[The New York Times]( • Climate change set off an explosion of purple sea urchins off Northern California’s coast that are devouring an essential component of the ocean’s food chain: kelp forests. [[The New York Times]( • Ryanair, the low-budget European carrier, is facing intense backlash for failing to take action against a white man who unleashed a racist tirade against a black passenger on one of its flights. [[The New York Times]( • More than a third of Americans eat fast food on a given day, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [[The New York Times]( Smarter Living Tips for a more fulfilling life. Con Poulos for The New York Times • Recipe of the day: Make [a sheet-pan chicken for dinner]( after a quick, easy marinade. • Rewire your [traumatized brain](. • U.S. airlines are wooing customers with bigger seats. Just kidding! Actually, they’re trying [fancier snacks](. Noteworthy Christie's • What would you pay for A.I. art? Christie’s, in a bid to stay relevant, is auctioning off a portrait, above, [created by an algorithm]( trained to imitate paintings from the 14th to the 20th centuries. • Hotels are reconfiguring themselves for [the social media era]( with everything from room designs to menu options created with all-important Instagram posts in mind. • Paris on foot: Our writer took a journey around the perimeter of Paris, exploring neighborhoods well off the tourist-beaten path, revealing a city at once [familiar and yet startlingly new](. Back Story Dmitri Lovetsky/Associated Press The Russian Soyuz spacecraft has [outlasted all others](. Designed at the height of the space race, it now [symbolizes cooperation]( transporting astronauts from around the world to the International Space Station. Recently, [it made an emergency landing]( with Russian and American astronauts aboard. The spacecraft’s first successful crewed mission, [Soyuz 3]( blasted off 50 years ago this week. The pilot, [Georgi Beregovoi]( a Soviet Air Force officer, would also play an important role in international space cooperation. Shortly before Apollo 11’s moon landing in 1969, he hosted the [first tour by an American astronaut]( of Moscow’s cosmonaut training center, then went [on a coast-to-coast U.S. good-will tour](. He attended parties, ate barbecue and met President Richard Nixon. [Eugene Cernan]( an American astronaut, tried to explain an American football game. In Hollywood, stars turned out for a bash. General Beregovoi warmly greeted Frank Sinatra in the receiving line, then turned and asked, “Who is he?” In NASA’s [Apollo simulator]( he got a taste of the American space program and [another at Disneyland]( on the “Flight to the Moon” ride. “Friendship,” [General Beregovoi]( at the end of his trip, “is a force which will help the world to conquer space.” Albert Sun wrote today’s Back Story. _____ This briefing was prepared for the Asian morning. You can also [sign up]( to get the briefing in the Australian, European or American morning. [Sign up here]( to receive an Evening Briefing on U.S. weeknights. Browse our full range of Times newsletters [here](. What would you like to see here? Contact us at [asiabriefing@nytimes.com](mailto:asiabriefing@nytimes.com?subject=Briefing%20Feedback%20(Asia)). LIKE THIS EMAIL? Forward it to your friends, and let them know they can sign up [here](. 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