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We’re fac- ing multiple crises — crises that, under Donald Trump, have kept multiplying.” Mr. Biden, the Democratic nom- inee for president, also pressed a broader argument that the presi- dent was endangering Americans with his response to the public health and economic challenges the country confronts. The address was Mr. Biden’s most prominent effort yet to de- flect the criticism that Mr. Trump and Republicans leveled against him at their convention last week, when they distorted his record on crime and policing. And in a fu- sillade of tweets over the last 48 hours the president suggested Mr. Biden was tolerant of “Anarchists, Thugs & Agitators.” Speaking at the site of a con- verted steel mill in Pittsburgh with no audience, in a rare cam- paign appearance outside eastern Pennsylvania or his home state of Delaware, Mr. Biden rejected the suggestion that lawlessness would go unchecked under his leadership. “Ask yourself: Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?” Mr. Biden, 77, said. “Really? I want a safe America. Safe from Covid, safe from crime and looting, safe from racially motivated violence, safe from bad cops. Let me be crystal clear: safe from four more years of Donald Trump.” The former vice president sought to refocus the spotlight on BIDEN CONFRONTS TRUMP ON CHAOS AND LEADERSHIP BLAMES HIM FOR UNREST Vehement Rebuttal in Pittsburgh 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 Continued on Page A18 ZHONGSHAN, China — This was supposed to be the year that China’s export machine began to stall. President Trump had im- posed broad tariffs on Chinese goods. Countries like Japan and France pushed companies to shift production from China. The pan- demic had crippled China’s fac- tories by the end of January. Instead, China Inc. has come roaring back. After reopening in late Febru- ary and early March, China’s fac- tories began an export blitz that is still gaining steam. Exports soared in July to their second- highest level ever, nearly match- ing the record-setting Christmas rush last December. The country has grabbed a much larger share of global markets this summer from other manufacturing na- tions, entrenching a dominance in trade that could last long after the world begins to recover from the pandemic. China is showing its export ma- chine cannot be stopped — not by the coronavirus and not by the Trump administration. Its resil- ience lies not only in the country’s low-cost, skilled labor and effi- cient infrastructure but also in a state-controlled banking system that has been offering small and large businesses extra loans to cope with the pandemic. Pandemic Only Fueled China’s Export Machine By 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 of a World on Lockdown Continued on Page A12 BOSTON — Stepping out of the rain on a dreary Saturday morn- ing, Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III made no attempt to hide his frustration as he raced from neighborhood to neighbor- hood in a city as synonymous with his family as it is with the Green Monster. Mr. Kennedy is trailing Senator Edward J. Markey in every poll ahead of the Senate primary on Tuesday, and may become the first Kennedy to lose a race in Massachusetts. He is struggling with idealistic young liberals and older, affluent white Democrats, the sort of voters who in an earlier era idolized his grandfather, Robert F. Kennedy, and his great- uncles. Mr. Kennedy pointed to his strength with working-class Dem- ocrats and voters of color who are bearing 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 says that they care about these racial inequities, these structural ineq- uities, economic inequities, health care inequities, the folks that are on the other side of that are over- whelmingly supporting me in this race,” he said. “Yet there seems to be a cognitive dissonance.” Senator Poses Political Snag For a Kennedy By JONATHAN MARTIN Continued on Page A16 WASHINGTON — All things being equal, Col. Anthony Hen- derson has the military back- ground that the Marine Corps says it prizes in a general: multi- ple combat tours, leadership ex- perience and the respect of those he commanded and most who commanded him. Yet three times he has been passed over for brigadier general, a prominent one-star rank that would put Colonel Henderson on the path to the top tier of Marine Corps leadership. Last year, the Navy secretary, Richard V. Spencer, even added a handwrit- ten recommendation to Colonel Henderson’s candidacy: “Emi- nently qualified Marine we need now as BG,” he wrote. But never in its history has the Marine Corps had anyone other than 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 salute from Jesus Christ himself,” said Milton D. Whitfield Sr., a former Marine gunnery sergeant who served for 21 years. Proud and fierce in their iden- tity, the Marines have a singular race problem that critics say is rooted in decades of resistance to change. As the nation reels this summer from protests challeng- ing centuries-long perceptions of race, the Marines — who have long cultivated a reputation as the United States’ strongest fighting force — remain an institution where a handful of white men rule over 185,000 white, African-Amer- ican, Hispanic and Asian men and women. “It took an act of Congress last year to get them to integrate by gender at the platoon level,” said Representative Anthony G. Brown, Democrat of Maryland and a former Army helicopter pi- lot. “And now they continue to hold onto that 1950s vision of who Marines are.” Current and former Marine Corps officials point to Colonel Henderson’s personality as an ex- In Command: The Few, the Proud, the White By HELENE COOPER Continued on Page A17 U.S. Marine Corps Has Balked at Promoting Generals of Color MÁLAGA, Spain — At midday on Sunday, there were 31 patients inside the main coronavirus treat- ment center in Málaga, the city with the fastest-rising infection rate in southern Spain. At 12:15 p.m., the 32nd arrived in an ambu- lance. Half an hour later came No. 33. The garbage can by the door overflowed with masks and blue surgical gloves. Relatives hovered in silence outside — one of them in tears, another feeling a pang of déjà vu. “My brother-in-law had the vi- rus in the spring,” said Julia Bautista, a 58-year-old retired of- fice administrator waiting for news on Sunday of her 91-year-old father. “Here we go again,” she added. If Italy was the harbinger of the first wave of Europe’s coronavirus pandemic in February, Spain is the portent of its second. France is also surging, as are parts of Eastern Europe, and cases are ticking up in Germany, Greece, Italy and Belgium, too, but in the past week, Spain has re- corded the most new cases on the continent by far — more than 53,000. With 114 new infections per 100,000 people in that time, the virus is spreading faster in Spain than in the United States, more than twice as fast as in France, about eight times the rate in Italy and Britain, and 10 times the pace in Germany. Spain was already one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe, and now has about 440,000 cases and more than 29,000 deaths. But after one of the world’s most strin- gent lockdowns, which did check the virus’s spread, it enjoyed one of the most rapid reopenings. The return of nightlife and group ac- tivities — far faster than most of its European neighbors — has contributed to the epidemic’s re- surgence. Now, as other Europeans mull Fear in Europe As Virus Spikes In Spain Again Lessons for Continent After a Fast Restart By PATRICK KINGSLEY and JOSÉ BAUTISTA Continued on Page A6 Jesse Green checks in with the Theater for One and finds that it has adapted well to the pandemic era. PAGE C1 ARTS C1-6 Face-to-Face Dramas Dozens of scientists around the world are giving themselves their own un- proven coronavirus vaccines. PAGE D1 SCIENCE TIMES D1-8 They’re Their Own Guinea Pigs China’s new export rules, which could sink a sale of TikTok, have further turned giant companies into pawns in a geopolitical struggle. PAGE B1 BUSINESS B1-5 The Battle for TikTok The Agriculture Department extended special rules on subsidized meals, but only through December. PAGE A4 TRACKING AN OUTBREAK A4-6 More Meals for Needy Students In Sigrid Nunez’s “What Are You Going Through,” an ailing woman asks a friend 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 told she just wasn’t cut out for research. Talk about being wrong. PAGE D1 A Physicist Who Persisted Facebook issued a blunt warning as the country weighed rules aimed at curbing the power of tech giants. PAGE B1 Australia’s Digital Fence Last year’s teenage sensation lost to Anastasija Sevastova on Day 1 of the U.S. Open tennis tournament. PAGE B7 SPORTSTUESDAY B6-10 One and Done for Coco Gauff The country’s transitional government and a rebel alliance took a first step to end 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 between Israel and the Arab world. PAGE A8 A Symbolic First Journey In 35 states, deadlines to request a ballot are so close to Election Day that it’s risky to procrastinate. PAGE A14 Timing Your Mail-In Ballot A judge got the green light to scrutinize the Justice Department’s request to drop the prosecution of a former na- tional security adviser. PAGE A19 NATIONAL A13-19 Flynn Case Returns to Court WASHINGTON — President Trump has been throwing accel- erant on the fire of the nation’s social unrest rather than trying to put it out, seeking confronta- tion rather than calm at a volatile moment his advis- ers hope will help salvage his campaign for a sec- ond term. Other presidents in times of tumult tried to settle down com- munities convulsed by racial and cultural divisions, but Mr. Trump has encouraged one side against another. He has threatened to deploy federal forces, condoned freelance actions by his own armed supporters, conflated peaceful protesters with violent rioters and used the strife to undercut his political opponents. He plans to fly Tuesday to Kenosha, Wis., uninvited and unwelcome by the local authori- ties in a state pivotal to the No- vember election, to condemn what he calls “left-wing mobs” that are “marauding through our Fanning Strife With Kenosha In His Sights By PETER BAKER and MAGGIE HABERMAN Continued on Page A18 NEWS ANALYSIS Late Edition VOL. CLXIX .... No. 58,803 © 2020 The New York Times Company NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2020 Today, mostly cloudy, some show- ers, high 78. Tonight, mainly cloudy, isolated showers, low 70. Tomorrow, cloudy, thunderstorms, high 78. Weather map appears on Page A20. $3.00
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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
Continued on Page A18
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
Continued on Page A12
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
Continued on Page A16
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
Continued on Page A17
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
Continued on Page A6
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
Continued on Page A18
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