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The first Black coach to lead a team to the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball title stood up for the players he inspired. Page B10.

JOHN THOMPSON, 1941-2020

Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Mondayissued a forceful rebuttal to Presi-dent Trump’s claim that the for-mer vice president would presideover a nation overwhelmed by dis-order and lawlessness, assertingthat it was Mr. Trump who hadmade the country unsafe throughhis erratic and incendiary govern-ing style.

Mr. Biden condemned the vio-lence that has occasionallyerupted amid largely peacefulprotests over racial injustice, andnoted that the chaos was occur-ring on the president’s watch. Hesaid Mr. Trump had made thingsworse by stoking division amid anational outcry over racism andpolice brutality.

“Does anyone believe there willbe less violence in America if Don-ald Trump is re-elected?” he said.“We need justice in America. Weneed safety in America. We’re fac-ing multiple crises — crises that,under Donald Trump, have keptmultiplying.”

Mr. Biden, the Democratic nom-inee for president, also pressed abroader argument that the presi-dent was endangering Americanswith his response to the publichealth and economic challengesthe country confronts.

The address was Mr. Biden’smost prominent effort yet to de-flect the criticism that Mr. Trumpand Republicans leveled againsthim at their convention last week,when they distorted his record oncrime and policing. And in a fu-sillade of tweets over the last 48hours the president suggested Mr.Biden was tolerant of “Anarchists,Thugs & Agitators.”

Speaking at the site of a con-verted steel mill in Pittsburghwith no audience, in a rare cam-paign appearance outside easternPennsylvania or his home state ofDelaware, Mr. Biden rejected thesuggestion that lawlessnesswould go unchecked under hisleadership. “Ask yourself: Do Ilook like a radical socialist with asoft spot for rioters?” Mr. Biden,77, said. “Really? I want a safeAmerica. Safe from Covid, safefrom crime and looting, safe fromracially motivated violence, safefrom bad cops. Let me be crystalclear: safe from four more yearsof Donald Trump.”

The former vice presidentsought to refocus the spotlight on

BIDEN CONFRONTSTRUMP ON CHAOS

AND LEADERSHIP

BLAMES HIM FOR UNREST

Vehement Rebuttal inPittsburgh as Contest

Gains Momentum

By KATIE GLUECK

“He keeps telling us if he was president you’d feel safe,” Joseph R. Biden Jr. said. “Well, he is president, whether he knows it or not.”AMR ALFIKY/THE NEW YORK TIMES

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ZHONGSHAN, China — Thiswas supposed to be the year thatChina’s export machine began tostall. President Trump had im-posed broad tariffs on Chinesegoods. Countries like Japan andFrance pushed companies to shiftproduction from China. The pan-demic had crippled China’s fac-tories by the end of January.

Instead, China Inc. has comeroaring back.

After reopening in late Febru-ary and early March, China’s fac-

tories began an export blitz that isstill gaining steam. Exportssoared in July to their second-highest level ever, nearly match-ing the record-setting Christmasrush last December. The countryhas grabbed a much larger shareof global markets this summerfrom other manufacturing na-

tions, entrenching a dominance intrade that could last long after theworld begins to recover from thepandemic.

China is showing its export ma-chine cannot be stopped — not bythe coronavirus and not by theTrump administration. Its resil-ience lies not only in the country’slow-cost, skilled labor and effi-cient infrastructure but also in astate-controlled banking systemthat has been offering small andlarge businesses extra loans tocope with the pandemic.

Pandemic Only Fueled China’s Export MachineBy KEITH BRADSHER

Hongyuan Furniture in Guangzhou, China, increased staff after orders for home saunas surged.ANDREA VERDELLI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Meeting the Demands ofa World on Lockdown

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BOSTON — Stepping out of therain on a dreary Saturday morn-ing, Representative Joseph P.Kennedy III made no attempt tohide his frustration as he racedfrom neighborhood to neighbor-hood in a city as synonymous withhis family as it is with the GreenMonster.

Mr. Kennedy is trailing SenatorEdward J. Markey in every pollahead of the Senate primary onTuesday, and may become thefirst Kennedy to lose a race inMassachusetts. He is strugglingwith idealistic young liberals andolder, affluent white Democrats,the sort of voters who in an earlierera idolized his grandfather,Robert F. Kennedy, and his great-uncles.

Mr. Kennedy pointed to hisstrength with working-class Dem-ocrats and voters of color who arebearing the brunt of the coro-navirus pandemic, all but scorn-ing what he suggested was the hy-pocrisy of white liberals.

“For a progressive left that saysthat they care about these racialinequities, these structural ineq-uities, economic inequities, healthcare inequities, the folks that areon the other side of that are over-whelmingly supporting me in thisrace,” he said. “Yet there seems tobe a cognitive dissonance.”

Senator PosesPolitical SnagFor a KennedyBy JONATHAN MARTIN

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WASHINGTON — All thingsbeing equal, Col. Anthony Hen-derson has the military back-ground that the Marine Corpssays it prizes in a general: multi-ple combat tours, leadership ex-perience and the respect of thosehe commanded and most whocommanded him.

Yet three times he has beenpassed over for brigadier general,a prominent one-star rank thatwould put Colonel Henderson onthe path to the top tier of MarineCorps leadership. Last year, theNavy secretary, Richard V.Spencer, even added a handwrit-ten recommendation to ColonelHenderson’s candidacy: “Emi-nently qualified Marine we neednow as BG,” he wrote.

But never in its history has the

Marine Corps had anyone otherthan a white man in its most sen-ior leadership posts. Colonel Hen-derson is Black.

“Tony Henderson has done ev-erything you could do in the Ma-rines except get a hand salutefrom Jesus Christ himself,” saidMilton D. Whitfield Sr., a formerMarine gunnery sergeant whoserved for 21 years.

Proud and fierce in their iden-tity, the Marines have a singularrace problem that critics say isrooted in decades of resistance to

change. As the nation reels thissummer from protests challeng-ing centuries-long perceptions ofrace, the Marines — who havelong cultivated a reputation as theUnited States’ strongest fightingforce — remain an institutionwhere a handful of white men ruleover 185,000 white, African-Amer-ican, Hispanic and Asian men andwomen.

“It took an act of Congress lastyear to get them to integrate bygender at the platoon level,” saidRepresentative Anthony G.Brown, Democrat of Marylandand a former Army helicopter pi-lot. “And now they continue tohold onto that 1950s vision of whoMarines are.”

Current and former MarineCorps officials point to ColonelHenderson’s personality as an ex-

In Command: The Few, the Proud, the WhiteBy HELENE COOPER

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U.S. Marine Corps HasBalked at Promoting

Generals of Color

MÁLAGA, Spain — At middayon Sunday, there were 31 patientsinside the main coronavirus treat-ment center in Málaga, the citywith the fastest-rising infectionrate in southern Spain. At 12:15p.m., the 32nd arrived in an ambu-lance. Half an hour later cameNo. 33.

The garbage can by the dooroverflowed with masks and bluesurgical gloves. Relatives hoveredin silence outside — one of them intears, another feeling a pang ofdéjà vu.

“My brother-in-law had the vi-rus in the spring,” said JuliaBautista, a 58-year-old retired of-fice administrator waiting fornews on Sunday of her 91-year-oldfather.

“Here we go again,” she added.If Italy was the harbinger of the

first wave of Europe’s coronaviruspandemic in February, Spain isthe portent of its second.

France is also surging, as areparts of Eastern Europe, andcases are ticking up in Germany,Greece, Italy and Belgium, too,but in the past week, Spain has re-corded the most new cases on thecontinent by far — more than53,000. With 114 new infectionsper 100,000 people in that time,the virus is spreading faster inSpain than in the United States,more than twice as fast as inFrance, about eight times the ratein Italy and Britain, and 10 timesthe pace in Germany.

Spain was already one of thehardest-hit countries in Europe,and now has about 440,000 casesand more than 29,000 deaths. Butafter one of the world’s most strin-gent lockdowns, which did checkthe virus’s spread, it enjoyed oneof the most rapid reopenings. Thereturn of nightlife and group ac-tivities — far faster than most ofits European neighbors — hascontributed to the epidemic’s re-surgence.

Now, as other Europeans mull

Fear in EuropeAs Virus SpikesIn Spain Again

Lessons for ContinentAfter a Fast Restart

By PATRICK KINGSLEYand JOSÉ BAUTISTA

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Jesse Green checks in with the Theaterfor One and finds that it has adaptedwell to the pandemic era. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-6

Face-to-Face DramasDozens of scientists around the worldare giving themselves their own un-proven coronavirus vaccines. PAGE D1

SCIENCE TIMES D1-8

They’re Their Own Guinea PigsChina’s new export rules, which couldsink a sale of TikTok, have furtherturned giant companies into pawns in ageopolitical struggle. PAGE B1

BUSINESS B1-5

The Battle for TikTokThe Agriculture Department extendedspecial rules on subsidized meals, butonly through December. PAGE A4

TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-6

More Meals for Needy Students

In Sigrid Nunez’s “What Are You GoingThrough,” an ailing woman asks afriend to help her end her life. PAGE C1

A Funny Novel About Death

Paul Krugman PAGE A23

EDITORIAL, OP-ED A22-23

In the 1950s, Myriam Sarachik was toldshe just wasn’t cut out for research.Talk about being wrong. PAGE D1

A Physicist Who Persisted

Facebook issued a blunt warning as thecountry weighed rules aimed at curbingthe power of tech giants. PAGE B1

Australia’s Digital Fence

Last year’s teenage sensation lost toAnastasija Sevastova on Day 1 of theU.S. Open tennis tournament. PAGE B7

SPORTSTUESDAY B6-10

One and Done for Coco Gauff

The country’s transitional governmentand a rebel alliance took a first step toend fighting in Darfur. PAGE A9

INTERNATIONAL A8-12

Sudan Embraces Peace Deal

An El Al flight took off from Tel Aviv,carrying the hope of closer ties betweenIsrael and the Arab world. PAGE A8

A Symbolic First Journey

In 35 states, deadlines to request aballot are so close to Election Day thatit’s risky to procrastinate. PAGE A14

Timing Your Mail-In Ballot

A judge got the green light to scrutinizethe Justice Department’s request todrop the prosecution of a former na-tional security adviser. PAGE A19

NATIONAL A13-19

Flynn Case Returns to Court

WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump has been throwing accel-erant on the fire of the nation’ssocial unrest rather than tryingto put it out, seeking confronta-

tion rather thancalm at a volatilemoment his advis-ers hope will help

salvage his campaign for a sec-ond term.

Other presidents in times oftumult tried to settle down com-munities convulsed by racial andcultural divisions, but Mr. Trumphas encouraged one side againstanother. He has threatened todeploy federal forces, condonedfreelance actions by his ownarmed supporters, conflatedpeaceful protesters with violentrioters and used the strife toundercut his political opponents.

He plans to fly Tuesday toKenosha, Wis., uninvited andunwelcome by the local authori-ties in a state pivotal to the No-vember election, to condemnwhat he calls “left-wing mobs”that are “marauding through our

Fanning StrifeWith Kenosha

In His Sights

By PETER BAKERand MAGGIE HABERMAN

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