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.. INTERNATIONAL EDITION | FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018 OPTIMAL EATING SYNCING MEALS TO BODY’S CLOCK PAGE 6 | WELL TASTE OF SUMMER THE RETURN OF THE HIGHBALL PAGE 15 | TRAVEL DECONSTRUCTING CLASSICS CHOREOGRAPHER’S TAKE ON THE DANCE CANON PAGE 14 | CULTURE ordeal was at last bending toward a little less misery — if only for the Arsalis. The refugees, for their part, were still living a nightmare. Seven years of war in Syria has dis- placed more than half the country’s pop- ulation, leaving millions of refugees shipwrecked between the wasteland of home and the void of exile. Among the The mayor was tired. Asleep-at-3, awake-at-6 tired. Tired the way you can- not help but be after years of the Islamic State squatting in your town, killing your citizens and forcing the army to quarantine you from the rest of the country. Tired of Syrian refugees from just across the border growing so numerous that they eclipse your actual constitu- ents — and of your constituents growing so sick of the refugees that they mutter about taking the town back by force. All this fell to the mayor of Arsal, Leb- anon: checkpoints to negotiate, ref- ugees to manage, townspeople to ap- pease. And now even his wife com- plained that he was neglecting her. “At night, I go back home and I listen to people’s problems again,” said the mayor, Bassil Hujeiri. “It’s not like my shift ends and I get to close the door.” And yet the mayor has recently had cause to believe that the arc of his town’s many Lebanese and Jordanian towns that received them was Arsal, where rented rooms and tent cities overflowed at one point with 120,000 Syrians — quadruple its Lebanese population. But now with the Syrian government closing in on victory, President Bashar al-Assad declaring the country safe for Syrians again and their reluctant Leba- nese hosts pressing them to leave, the Syrian refugees are beginning to set out on the fraught road home. Over the past month, convoys carry- ing nearly 2,000 Syrians have crossed the border, returning families to the homes they had abandoned years ago — though few knew whether those homes had survived the bombs and shells. But many may be stuck in Lebanon. Thousands of Syrians in Arsal have ap- plied to return, only to be rejected by Mr. Assad’s government. Many more say they believe that if Mr. Assad remains in power — the outcome tacitly accepted by the global powers haggling over Syr- ia’s future — they have only arrest, tor- ture, death or forced conscription to re- turn to. “Here, I’m a refugee,” said a former Syrian soldier who asked to be identified by his nom de guerre, Abu Fares. “In Syria, I’m a traitor.” Few of the refugees leaving Arsal knew for certain that they would be safe at home. All had decided that home was nevertheless preferable to a tent with no future. “My life there would be better than it is now,” Mohsin Ishac, a former taxi driver from Fleita, a village just across the border, said before he left with the first convoy. “I have a tent here. I’ll put a tent there if I have to.” LEBANON, PAGE 2 Hassan, a Syrian refugee in Arsal, Lebanon, checking a water tank. At one point, rented rooms and tent cities in Arsal housed 120,000 Syrians, quadruple its Lebanese population. PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIEGO IBARRA SANCHEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Syrians’ worn-out welcome LEBANON DISPATCH ARSAL, LEBANON BY VIVIAN YEE In one Lebanese town, refugees and locals agree it’s time for exile to end Bassil Hujeiri, the mayor of Arsal, where the refugee crisis may finally be easing. With Syria declaring itself safe again, migrants have started returning home. Passing through the airport immigra- tion checkpoint on a trip home to the United States from South Korea, Henry Garcia responded truthfully when asked the reason for his travel: He had journeyed thousands of miles to cut a baseball player’s hair. “The officer was surprised, and laughed at me,” said Garcia, normally the on-call barber at Nationals Park in Washington. “Then he called over an- other officer and says, ‘This guy goes to Korea to cut hair.’” As one of several barbers catering to a peripatetic clientele of wealthy major leaguers, Garcia goes to great lengths to please his customers. He has become a close friend and confidant, particularly to the many baseball players from the Caribbean. For them, Garcia is a link to the tradition of a weekly visit to the bar- ber shop. “I tried others before, but I didn’t feel comfortable with anyone but Henry,” said Roger Bernadina, a former Wash- ington Nationals outfielder who is from Curaçao and is now playing in South Ko- rea. “It was a no-brainer to have him come over to Korea, too.” Garcia, 37, who was born and raised in the Dominican Republic but is now an American citizen, said he had made six hair-cutting trips to South Korea and one to Japan, where the Kia Tigers, Bernadina’s team, held spring training. Bernadina, 34, put up Garcia in his apartment and paid for his flight, food and whatever business he missed out on at the barbershop he works at in Wash- ington. While there, Garcia also cut the hair of a few Dominican players. “Caribbean hair doesn’t get cut well there,” said Garcia, who cut the hair of a few South Korean players, too. “Their hair is different.” The bond between the players and BARBERS, PAGE 12 Flying 7,000 miles to cut a ballplayer’s hair Jordan López giving Yankees pitcher C. C. Sabathia his weekly shave. “When you take off your hat, you want to be fresh,” Sabathia said. “Look good, feel good, play good.” EMMA HOWELLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES Star baseball barbers cater to major leaguers fussy about who grooms them BY JAMES WAGNER The New York Times publishes opinion from a wide range of perspectives in hopes of promoting constructive debate about consequential questions. The United States and China have sparred repeatedly over trade, in a tit- for-tat skirmish that has shown little sign of abating. High-level talks have stalled, while both sides have been threatening further tariffs in recent days. But beneath the acrimony, two poten- tial paths for China seem to be emerg- ing, according to participants in the trade negotiations and their advisers. Both would deliver trade wins for Presi- dent Trump and his more moderate ad- visers, while also letting President Xi Jinping of China push ahead with his ambitious industrial plan to build na- tional champions in cutting-edge tech- nologies. A stalemate appears the most likely endgame, with new American and Chi- nese tariffs staying in place for months or even years. So far, the United States has imposed tariffs on $34 billion of Chi- nese technology goods and $3 billion of Chinese steel and aluminum, with an- other $16 billion in the offing. China has responded in kind, outlining its own plan on Wednesday for measures on $16 bil- lion of American goods. While the policies have drawn loud complaints from American companies that have become reliant on imports from China, they have been forcing multinational corporations to rethink their supply chains and start moving them away from China. Over time, such changes could reduce the United States trade deficit with China and limit na- tional security concerns, two big sources of discontent for Mr. Trump. A negotiated truce is also possible. Al- though the two sides remain far apart, Beijing has made subtle shifts to a more conciliatory position. China now ap- pears willing to discuss changes to its strategic plan, Made in China 2025, which the Trump administration has identified as a long-term threat to big American industries like aircraft manu- facturing, semiconductors and pharma- ceuticals. China’s stance now is that a resolution of trade tensions must not block its fur- ther economic progress, but adjust- ments to Made in China 2025 could hap- pen. The latest trade figures, which came out Wednesday, show that Chinese exports continue to surge, giving Bei- jing some confidence. “The red line is China’s right to develop, not the con- crete industrial policies and measures regarding Made in China 2025,” said He Weiwen, a former Commerce Ministry official who remains one of China’s top trade experts. TRADE, PAGE 8 2 endgames emerge in trade war with China BEIJING Potential paths could give Trump a victory while Beijing moves ahead BY KEITH BRADSHER American tensions with China over international trade spring partly from concerns that China gives tax breaks to its companies to boost their exports, restricts access to its markets, forces foreign companies to transfer their technology to Chinese companies, steals intellectual property and pur- sues industrial espionage. Expert, decisive action is needed to stop these practices in defense of fair international competition and Ameri- ca’s strategic and commercial inter- ests. But it would be a mistake to think that an aggressive defense alone will somehow prevent China’s technolog- ical success — or ensure America’s own. China is not an innovation also-ran that prospers mainly by copying other people’s ideas and producing them quickly at low cost. The country is ad- vancing aggressively to assert technolog- ical supremacy in critical fields of science and technol- ogy. In quantum com- puting, China’s Al- ibaba is battling Google to achieve the technical milestone of “quantum supremacy.” In 5G technology, the three largest global players are Nokia of Finland, Ericsson of Sweden — and Huawei of China, which is spending more than two and a half times as much on research and development as its two rivals. The Fuxing bullet train, designed and built in China, is the world’s fastest in regular operation. China is also a world leader in fields like mobile payment and facial and spoken language recognition, where Chinese companies have made the most of their advanced algorithms and their advantages in scale and data access. It is also making bold national investments in key areas of research like biotechnology and space, and directly supporting start-ups and recruiting talent from around the world. And China has unrivaled capaci- ty to rapidly ramp up large-scale pro- duction of advanced technology prod- ucts and quickly bring innovation to market. In short, stopping intellectual prop- erty theft and unfair trade practices — even if fully effective — would not allow the United States to relax back into a position of unquestioned innova- tion leadership. Unless America re- sponds urgently and deliberately to the scale and intensity of this challenge, China’s push can be U.S. opportunity L. Rafael Reif OPINION America must respond urgently as China advances in science and technology. 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INTERNATIONAL EDITION | FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 2018
OPTIMAL EATINGSYNCING MEALSTO BODY’S CLOCKPAGE 6 | WELL
TASTE OF SUMMER THE RETURN OFTHE HIGHBALLPAGE 15 | TRAVEL
DECONSTRUCTING CLASSICSCHOREOGRAPHER’S TAKEON THE DANCE CANONPAGE 14 | CULTURE
ordeal was at last bending toward a littleless misery — if only for the Arsalis. Therefugees, for their part, were still livinga nightmare.
Seven years of war in Syria has dis-placed more than half the country’s pop-ulation, leaving millions of refugeesshipwrecked between the wasteland ofhome and the void of exile. Among the
The mayor was tired. Asleep-at-3,awake-at-6 tired. Tired the way you can-not help but be after years of the IslamicState squatting in your town, killingyour citizens and forcing the army toquarantine you from the rest of thecountry.
Tired of Syrian refugees from justacross the border growing so numerousthat they eclipse your actual constitu-ents — and of your constituents growingso sick of the refugees that they mutterabout taking the town back by force.
All this fell to the mayor of Arsal, Leb-anon: checkpoints to negotiate, ref-ugees to manage, townspeople to ap-pease. And now even his wife com-plained that he was neglecting her.
“At night, I go back home and I listento people’s problems again,” said themayor, Bassil Hujeiri. “It’s not like myshift ends and I get to close the door.”
And yet the mayor has recently hadcause to believe that the arc of his town’s
many Lebanese and Jordanian townsthat received them was Arsal, whererented rooms and tent cities overflowedat one point with 120,000 Syrians —quadruple its Lebanese population.
But now with the Syrian governmentclosing in on victory, President Basharal-Assad declaring the country safe forSyrians again and their reluctant Leba-
nese hosts pressing them to leave, theSyrian refugees are beginning to set outon the fraught road home.
Over the past month, convoys carry-ing nearly 2,000 Syrians have crossedthe border, returning families to thehomes they had abandoned years ago —though few knew whether those homeshad survived the bombs and shells.
But many may be stuck in Lebanon.Thousands of Syrians in Arsal have ap-plied to return, only to be rejected by Mr.Assad’s government. Many more saythey believe that if Mr. Assad remains inpower — the outcome tacitly acceptedby the global powers haggling over Syr-ia’s future — they have only arrest, tor-ture, death or forced conscription to re-turn to.
“Here, I’m a refugee,” said a formerSyrian soldier who asked to be identifiedby his nom de guerre, Abu Fares. “InSyria, I’m a traitor.”
Few of the refugees leaving Arsalknew for certain that they would be safeat home. All had decided that home wasnevertheless preferable to a tent with nofuture.
“My life there would be better than itis now,” Mohsin Ishac, a former taxidriver from Fleita, a village just acrossthe border, said before he left with thefirst convoy. “I have a tent here. I’ll put atent there if I have to.”LEBANON, PAGE 2
Hassan, a Syrian refugee in Arsal, Lebanon, checking a water tank. At one point, rented rooms and tent cities in Arsal housed 120,000 Syrians, quadruple its Lebanese population.PHOTOGRAPHS BY DIEGO IBARRA SANCHEZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Syrians’ worn-out welcomeLEBANON DISPATCHARSAL, LEBANON
BY VIVIAN YEE
In one Lebanese town, refugees and locals agree it’s time for exile to end
Bassil Hujeiri, the mayor of Arsal, where the refugee crisis may finally be easing. WithSyria declaring itself safe again, migrants have started returning home.
Passing through the airport immigra-tion checkpoint on a trip home to theUnited States from South Korea, HenryGarcia responded truthfully whenasked the reason for his travel: He hadjourneyed thousands of miles to cut abaseball player’s hair.
“The officer was surprised, andlaughed at me,” said Garcia, normallythe on-call barber at Nationals Park inWashington. “Then he called over an-other officer and says, ‘This guy goes toKorea to cut hair.’”
As one of several barbers catering to aperipatetic clientele of wealthy majorleaguers, Garcia goes to great lengths toplease his customers. He has become aclose friend and confidant, particularlyto the many baseball players from theCaribbean. For them, Garcia is a link to
the tradition of a weekly visit to the bar-ber shop.
“I tried others before, but I didn’t feelcomfortable with anyone but Henry,”said Roger Bernadina, a former Wash-ington Nationals outfielder who is fromCuraçao and is now playing in South Ko-rea. “It was a no-brainer to have himcome over to Korea, too.”
Garcia, 37, who was born and raised inthe Dominican Republic but is now anAmerican citizen, said he had made sixhair-cutting trips to South Korea andone to Japan, where the Kia Tigers,Bernadina’s team, held spring training.Bernadina, 34, put up Garcia in hisapartment and paid for his flight, foodand whatever business he missed out onat the barbershop he works at in Wash-ington.
While there, Garcia also cut the hair ofa few Dominican players.
“Caribbean hair doesn’t get cut wellthere,” said Garcia, who cut the hair of afew South Korean players, too. “Theirhair is different.”
The bond between the players and BARBERS, PAGE 12
Flying 7,000 miles to cut a ballplayer’s hair
Jordan López giving Yankees pitcher C. C. Sabathia his weekly shave. “When you takeoff your hat, you want to be fresh,” Sabathia said. “Look good, feel good, play good.”
EMMA HOWELLS/THE NEW YORK TIMES
Star baseball barbers caterto major leaguers fussyabout who grooms them
BY JAMES WAGNER
The New York Times publishes opinionfrom a wide range of perspectives inhopes of promoting constructive debateabout consequential questions.
The United States and China havesparred repeatedly over trade, in a tit-for-tat skirmish that has shown littlesign of abating. High-level talks havestalled, while both sides have beenthreatening further tariffs in recentdays.
But beneath the acrimony, two poten-tial paths for China seem to be emerg-ing, according to participants in thetrade negotiations and their advisers.Both would deliver trade wins for Presi-dent Trump and his more moderate ad-visers, while also letting President XiJinping of China push ahead with hisambitious industrial plan to build na-tional champions in cutting-edge tech-nologies.
A stalemate appears the most likelyendgame, with new American and Chi-nese tariffs staying in place for monthsor even years. So far, the United Stateshas imposed tariffs on $34 billion of Chi-nese technology goods and $3 billion ofChinese steel and aluminum, with an-other $16 billion in the offing. China hasresponded in kind, outlining its own planon Wednesday for measures on $16 bil-lion of American goods.
While the policies have drawn loudcomplaints from American companiesthat have become reliant on importsfrom China, they have been forcingmultinational corporations to rethinktheir supply chains and start movingthem away from China. Over time, suchchanges could reduce the United Statestrade deficit with China and limit na-tional security concerns, two bigsources of discontent for Mr. Trump.
A negotiated truce is also possible. Al-though the two sides remain far apart,Beijing has made subtle shifts to a moreconciliatory position. China now ap-pears willing to discuss changes to itsstrategic plan, Made in China 2025,which the Trump administration hasidentified as a long-term threat to bigAmerican industries like aircraft manu-facturing, semiconductors and pharma-ceuticals.
China’s stance now is that a resolutionof trade tensions must not block its fur-ther economic progress, but adjust-ments to Made in China 2025 could hap-pen. The latest trade figures, whichcame out Wednesday, show that Chineseexports continue to surge, giving Bei-jing some confidence. “The red line isChina’s right to develop, not the con-crete industrial policies and measuresregarding Made in China 2025,” said HeWeiwen, a former Commerce Ministryofficial who remains one of China’s toptrade experts.TRADE, PAGE 8
2 endgamesemerge intrade warwith ChinaBEIJING
Potential paths could giveTrump a victory whileBeijing moves ahead
BY KEITH BRADSHER
American tensions with China overinternational trade spring partly fromconcerns that China gives tax breaksto its companies to boost their exports,restricts access to its markets, forcesforeign companies to transfer theirtechnology to Chinese companies,steals intellectual property and pur-sues industrial espionage.
Expert, decisive action is needed tostop these practices in defense of fairinternational competition and Ameri-ca’s strategic and commercial inter-ests. But it would be a mistake to thinkthat an aggressive defense alone willsomehow prevent China’s technolog-ical success — or ensure America’sown.
China is not an innovation also-ranthat prospers mainly by copying otherpeople’s ideas and producing them
quickly at low cost.The country is ad-vancing aggressivelyto assert technolog-ical supremacy incritical fields ofscience and technol-ogy.
In quantum com-puting, China’s Al-ibaba is battlingGoogle to achieve
the technical milestone of “quantumsupremacy.” In 5G technology, thethree largest global players are Nokiaof Finland, Ericsson of Sweden — andHuawei of China, which is spendingmore than two and a half times asmuch on research and development asits two rivals. The Fuxing bullet train,designed and built in China, is theworld’s fastest in regular operation.
China is also a world leader in fieldslike mobile payment and facial andspoken language recognition, whereChinese companies have made themost of their advanced algorithms andtheir advantages in scale and dataaccess. It is also making bold nationalinvestments in key areas of researchlike biotechnology and space, anddirectly supporting start-ups andrecruiting talent from around theworld. And China has unrivaled capaci-ty to rapidly ramp up large-scale pro-duction of advanced technology prod-ucts and quickly bring innovation tomarket.
In short, stopping intellectual prop-erty theft and unfair trade practices —even if fully effective — would notallow the United States to relax backinto a position of unquestioned innova-tion leadership. Unless America re-sponds urgently and deliberately to thescale and intensity of this challenge,
China’s pushcan be U.S.opportunityL. Rafael Reif
OPINION
Americamust respondurgently asChinaadvances inscience andtechnology.
REIF, PAGE 11
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