| Thursday, July 16, 2020 | | | Good morning. We’re covering limits on Chinese visas to the U.S., police checks for coronavirus in the Philippines and devastating flooding in South Asia. | |  By Melina Delkic | | | Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the State Department on Wednesday. Pool photo by Andrew Harnik | | | He said that telecommunications companies around the world should “consider themselves on notice” if they do business with Huawei, and that he hoped to have more decisions soon on Chinese tech companies. | | | Bigger picture: Tit-for-tat punishments have accompanied the sharp downturn in relations between the U.S. and China. | | | People who were arrested for not wearing face masks were detained at a stadium in the Philippines last week. Ezra Acayan/Getty Images | | | The move incited an uproar among human rights groups, which accused the government on Wednesday of employing repressive tactics. | | | The plan lets police officers accompany health workers in search of people who may be asymptomatic or have mild symptoms. Those who cannot meet the requirements for home quarantine — including having their own bathroom and not having older adults or pregnant people in the house — are to be taken to a private facility. | | | The health authorities are under tremendous pressure from a public increasingly wary of Mr. Duterte’s brutal anti-drugs tactics, which have left thousands dead. | | | The national outbreak: Infections in the Philippines are nearing 60,000. More than 1,600 people have died. | | | Mourners arriving on Monday for the funeral of Park Won-soon, the mayor of Seoul, who died by suicide last week. Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters | | | The team has no power to subpoena or indict anyone, because by law a criminal case is closed if a suspect is dead. Mr. Park killed himself last week, the day after his secretary filed the complaint. | | | But activists say the investigation will still have meaning for members of the public, who want to know what happened. | | | Political impact: The accusations against Mr. Park are a blow to President Moon Jae-in’s governing liberal Democratic Party, of which Mr. Park had been a member. Two other party members have recently become the focus of the #MeToo movement in South Korea. | | | Samar Hazboun for The New York Times | | | Julia Zaher, the owner of a popular tahini company in Israel, saw her recent donation to an Israeli gay rights group as unremarkable. But after the rights group thanked her, Israel’s conservative Arab community called for a boycott of her products. | | | But some see a plus side: Attention and support have emerged for gay and transgender members of the country’s Arab minority, a group that feels marginalized and discriminated against twice over. | | | PAID POST: A MESSAGE FROM CAMPAIGN MONITOR | | TEST: Email Marketing 101: Never Sacrifice Beauty for Simplicity | | A drag-and-drop email builder, a gallery of templates and turnkey designs, personalized customer journeys, and engagement segments. It's everything you need to create stunning, results-driven email campaigns in minutes. And with Campaign Monitor, you have access to it all, along with award-winning support around the clock. It's beautiful email marketing done simply. | | | Learn More | | | | Boeing 737 Max: Boeing has put the troubled jet back into production, and, if it passes regulatory scrutiny, the Max could fly again by the end of the year. Airlines have canceled hundreds of orders because of safety problems and the pandemic, but several thousand are still pending for the jet, which offers substantial savings on fuel and maintenance. | | | Anupam Nath/Associated Press | | | What we’re looking at: The Window Swap website, which lets you look out through other people’s windows around the world. It gave me some sanity this morning. | | | David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne. | | | Cook: This fried tofu sandwich comes via Superiority Burger, a Manhattan restaurant with a famously vegan burger. “It’s a bit of a project as most restaurant recipes tend to be,” writes our food editor Sam Sifton, “but it’s neither complicated nor difficult.” | | | Watch: “The Old Guard,” a big-budget twist on comic-book superheroes that is among the few action movies with a guaranteed release this summer, is out on Netflix. We spoke with the director, Gina Prince-Bythewood, the first Black woman to take on such a role for the genre. | | | We have lots more ideas for what to read, cook, watch and do in our At Home collection. | | | This experience of sinking into emotional quicksand while bingeing on doom-and-gloom news is so common that there’s now internet lingo for it: “doomscrolling.” Shelter-in-place orders, which leave us with little else to do than look at our screens, make us even more likely to doomscroll. | | | The activity can make us anxious, angry, depressed and less connected with our loved ones. Brian X. Chen, the lead consumer technology writer at The Times, surveyed health experts for ideas on getting our internet habits back in check. Here are the highlights. | | | Create a plan to control your time. | | | People are, by nature, information consumers, and the news is like digital candy being dispensed 24 hours a day. To resist information bingeing, we can create a plan to control how much we consume, similar to how people can create a dieting plan to lose weight, said Adam Gazzaley, a neuroscientist. | | | Acknowledge the burden that doomscrolling creates for our health; create a realistic plan that you can stick with and repeat it; and take breaks that don’t involve Facebook, like walking around the block or making a snack. | | | Exercises in mindfulness can help us break the cycle of information bingeing or prevent us from sinking into a dark place altogether. Try taking some breaths and thinking about the people who have helped you in the past. While imagining these people, give them positive wishes. For example: “May you be happy. May you be peaceful. May you be safe. May you be healthy.” | | | Spend 15 minutes a day connecting with the people you care about most. That can help us feel less alone and resist doomscrolling. | | | While you might be experiencing “Zoom fatigue” after months of video calls with friends, try making a phone call while you’re on a walk. Or create a “moai,” a Japanese word for a social support group. Have a regular time when you convene with them, either virtually or in person at a safe distance. | | That’s it for this briefing. See you next time. — Melina | | Thank you
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