Your Thursday Briefing

Uber, North Korea, Mosul | View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Thursday, June 22, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( Asia Edition [Your Thursday Briefing]( By CHARLES MCDERMID Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Jim Lo Scalzo/European Pressphoto Agency • Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and James Mattis, the U.S. defense chief, met with Chinese officials in Washington. Their discussions on North Korea may have been complicated by President Trump’s assertion that China had failed to pressure the North into curbing its nuclear and ballistic missile program. Our correspondent in Beijing notes the surprising [“honeymoon” between China and Mr. Trump]( appears to be in trouble. An American diplomat who has handled past negotiations with North Korea spoke to our opinion editors about how the [U.S. could respond to the case of Otto Warmbier]( the student who died this week after returning from 17 months in North Korean custody. _____ Fayez Nureldine/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images • In a shake-up in Saudi Arabia, King Salman [removed the crown prince]( and named his 31-year-old son, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, next in line to the throne. Prince Mohammed’s appointment comes at a time of deep Saudi involvement in conflicts across the Middle East, and the move [will have far-reaching effects on oil markets](. Here is a recent [profile of the young prince](. _____  • President Trump will travel to Iowa to speak to supporters, as Democrats seethe, and try to regroup after a disappointing special election defeat in Georgia. The [Republican winner was Karen Handel]( and here’s what it [might mean for congressional elections in 2018](. And days after a police officer was acquitted of all charges [in the fatal shooting of Philando Castile]( a black motorist in Minnesota, a dashboard video of the shooting, above, was publicly released. _____  • A lawsuit against two psychologists has thrown a spotlight on the [brutality used in C.I.A. interrogations](. Deposition videos, obtained exclusively by The New York Times, reveal new insights into the enhanced interrogation program and the C.I.A. officials behind it. _____ Jack Atley for The New York Times • The business world is [digesting the upheaval at Uber]( after [Travis Kalanick stepped down]( as chief executive of the transportation colossus he helped found in 2009. The shareholder revolt that ousted Mr. Kalanick capped months of questions over leadership at the company, which has become [an example of start-up culture gone awry](. _____ Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg • Temperatures hovering around 120 degrees, or nearly 50 degrees Celsius, caused more than 40 recent flights to be canceled in the southwestern U.S. — hotter air is thinner air and some smaller jets simply could not take off. As the global climate warms, disruptions like these are likely to become more frequent, potentially making [air travel less predictable, more expensive]( and with a greater risk of injury from increased turbulence. Business Toru Yamanaka/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images • Toshiba picked a consortium that is backed by the Japanese government [to buy its microchip business]( intensifying a dispute with an American partner, Western Digital, that also bid on the $20 billion chip business. • Wang Shi, chairman and [founder of]( Vanke Group]( the country’s largest real estate developer, will step down. Mr. Wang had recently found his position under threat in a rare Chinese hostile takeover attempt. • On Ford’s milestone decision [to make its Focus compact cars in China]( “After years of predictions that cars sold in the West would bear the ‘Made in China’ label,” our Shanghai bureau chief writes, “the time has finally come.” • Asian cities dominated a [ranking of most expensive cities for expatriates](. Hong Kong was second, followed by Tokyo (3), Singapore (5), Seoul (6) and Shanghai (8). • U.S. stocks [were mixed](. Here’s a snapshot of [global markets](. In the News Mohamed El-Shahed/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images • The al-Nuri Grand Mosque in Mosul where the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared a caliphate in 2014, was destroyed. The Iraqi government said the Islamic State was behind the blast — but the militants blamed a U.S. airstrike. [[The New York Times]( • In the southern Philippines, Islamist militants seized an elementary school and held 31 hostages for about 12 hours before escaping. [[The New York Times]( • A dog meat festival opened as usual in the Chinese city of Yulin despite reports that the sale of dog meat was banned at the event this year. [[BBC]( • A Times reporter attended the annual Lychee and Dog Meat festival in 2015. “Why do people always pick on Yulin?” a participant said at the time. [[The New York Times]( • China canceled military talks with Vietnam after tempers flared during a closed-door meeting in Hanoi on disputed territories in the South China Sea. [[The New York Times]( • “A battered wife and a bloodied hockey stick.” A politician’s tweet about a Syrian refugee has ignited a firestorm in Canada. [[The New York Times]( • The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a rule banning offensive trademarks. We talked to the frontman of the Slants, the Asian-American rock group that brought the case. [[The New York Times]( Smarter Living Joana Avillez • Here are four ways in which [flying this summer]( will be different from last. • Want more Smarter Living? [Sign up for the weekly newsletter here](. • Recipe of the day: If you’re keeping it light, try this [kale and sugar snap pea salad]( with a ginger, miso and rice vinegar dressing. Noteworthy Glenna Gordon for The New York Times • The boys from Baga: In this nearly novelistic telling, four children from a fishing village in Nigeria were [abducted by Boko Haram and trained as soldiers](. They learned to survive, but only by forgetting who they were. • It has different names: cancer, diabetes, heart failure, stroke. But we all die of the same thing. In fact, dying has its own biology and symptoms. [This is what to expect.]( • And the N.B.A. draft is upon us, and the experts have weighed in on who’s going where. The [76ers and Lakers are expected to take]( Markelle Fultz and Lonzo Ball with the top two picks. After that, it gets interesting. Back Story Kathryn Cook for The New York Times The story of Galileo Galilei demonstrates many things, not least of which is that science keeps evolving. It was today in 1633 that the Italian scholar was forced to renounce what we now accept as fact: that the earth orbits the sun, not the other way around. His discovery of Jupiter’s larger moons in 1610 made him question the prevailing assumption that the earth was at the universe’s center. His advocacy of the heliocentric theory earned him mockery, censure and, in 1633, a trial in Rome, during which he was forced to recant before a jury of cardinals. He vowed that he would “[abjure, curse, and detest]( his findings. The declaration saved him from being burned at the stake but led to eight years of house arrest. It took the Roman Catholic Church [more than 350 years]( until 1992, to acknowledge that Galileo had been wronged (although astronomers now tell us that the sun is not immobile, but [orbits within the galaxy]( pulling the planets along with it). Today, Galileo’s discoveries seem obvious. But all things are easy to understand once they have been discovered, [he wrote](. “The point is in being able to discover them.” Patrick Boehler contributed reporting. _____ This briefing was prepared for the Asian morning. We also have briefings timed for the [Australian]( [European]( and [American]( mornings. You can sign up for these and other Times newsletters [here](. Your Morning Briefing is published weekday mornings and updated online. What would you like to see here? Contact us at [asiabriefing@nytimes.com](mailto:asiabriefing@nytimes.com?subject=Briefing%20Feedback%20(Asia)). 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