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Burned police cars, protests presage G-20 Russia’s Putin, North Korea

to challenge Trump overseas
By DAVID RISING leftists where police have known activists coming in
Associated Press clashed frequently with from Scandinavia, Switzer- By DARLENE SUPERVILLE will have to contend with
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) protesters. land, Italy and elsewhere, KEN THOMAS escalating tensions with
— President Donald Trump The site is about a kilome- Hamburg police chief Ralf Associated Press North Korea after it suc-
was met with thousands of ter (less than a mile) from Martin Meyer said. WARSAW, Poland (AP) — cessfully launched its first
protesters when he arrived where the leaders will be “This isn’t about sit-ins,” President Donald Trump intercontinental ballistic
at meetings in Brussels in meeting. Meyer said. opens his two-nation Eu- missile this week. Asked,
May. But with Russian Presi- In the weeks leading up In a preview of things likely ropean visit with what he as he left the White House,
dent Vladimir Putin and to the summit, police cars to come, police clashed in expects to be a short but what he would do about
Turkish President Recep have been burned and Hamburg with hundreds of warm stop in Poland be- North Korea, Trump said
Tayyip Erdogan joining him train lines have been sabo- protesters Tuesday night, fore he encounters what only: “We’re going to do
could be a frostier recep- very well.”
tion and thornier issues at Trump, who’s been seek-
an international summit in ing China’s help in con-
Germany. taining Pyongyang’s mis-
Trump’s sit-down with Rus- sile and nuclear weapons
sian President Vladimir programs, also tweeted
Putin and North Korea’s his frustration with China
first launch of an inter- for continuing to trade
continental ballistic missile with North Korea.
threaten to put Trump’s “So much for China work-
skills as a negotiator to the ing with us - but we had to
test. give it a try!” Trump wrote.
Trump arrived in Warsaw Chinese President Xi Jin-
late Wednesday for a ping is among at least
16-hour visit that includes nine leaders Trump is
a keynote address to scheduled to meet with
the Poles from Krasinski later in the week in Ger-
Square, site of a monu- many during the Group of
ment commemorating 20 summit of the world’s
the 1944 Warsaw Uprising leading rich and develop-
against the Nazis. Scores ing countries. U.S. Secre-
of people who lined dark- tary of State Rex Tillerson
ened roads waved Ameri- planned to join Trump in
can and Polish flags and Germany.
recorded video of Trump’s Trump will also walk a fine
The performance ‘1000 GESTALTEN’ with hundreds of people painted like clay figures move motorcade as it sped him line when he meets Friday
slowly and silently through the streets of Hamburg to protest against the G-20 summit in and his wife, Melania, to with Putin. The highly an-
Hamburg, northern Germany, Wednesday, July 5, 2017. The leaders of the group of 20 meet July
7 and 8. their hotel. ticipated sit-down comes
(AP Photo/Matthias Schrader) Trump has scheduled when relations between
talks with the leaders of the two nations are at a
at the Group of 20 meet- taged. Authorities in Ham- using pepper spray and Poland and Croatia and low point, and with the
ings in Germany this week, burg and the nearby city water cannons to eventu- may hold a joint news president showing reluc-
Trump is unlikely to be the of Rostock have confiscat- ally bring the crowd under conference — his first tance to adopt a harder
only target for demonstra- ed improvised weapons control. one abroad — with Polish line toward Russia amid
tors. Add India’s Prime Min- such as fire-extinguishers That’s not to say all pro- President Andrzej Duda. conclusions by multiple
ister Narendra Modi, Chi- filled with flammable liquid, testers are violent — most He also was meeting with U.S. intelligence agencies
nese President Xi Jinping baseball bats and other aren’t and see the gath- the heads of a dozen that Moscow meddled
and other leaders whose items in several raids. ering as an opportunity to countries bordered by the in the 2016 presidential
policies have sparked un- “We have to assume that highlight their messages Baltic, Adriatic and Black election to benefit Trump,
rest to the cauldron that this is only a tiny percent- with the world watching seas. and continuing federal
is Hamburg — the sum- age of what is still in base- and in hopes the assem- Collectively known as the and congressional investi-
mit venue is a short walk ments and garages in and bled leaders will listen. Three Seas Initiative, the gations into possible collu-
from a notorious hotbed around Hamburg,” Ham- Greenpeace, for exam- group aims to expand sion between Trump cam-
of left-wing protest — and burg police criminal direc- ple, regards the G-20 as a and modernize energy paign associates and Rus-
the brew could prove ex- tor Jan Hieber told report- chance for the leaders to and trade with a goal of sian government officials.
plosive. “G-20: Welcome ers this week. send a strong signal about reducing the region’s de- Trump’s return to Europe
to Hell” is the slogan anti- The “Welcome to Hell” fighting climate change — pendence on Russian en- follows a shaky inaugural
globalization activists have demonstration is just one despite the Trump adminis- ergy. visit in late May and signs
registered for their protests of dozens of protests that tration’s decision to pull out Duda told Polish broad- of unhappiness around
on July 6, when Trump and have been registered un- of the Paris agreement on caster TVN24 on Wednes- the globe with his presi-
other leaders arrive for the der a smorgasbord of reducing emissions. day that he wants to dency.
July 7-8 summit in the north- themes — including a far- “We’re looking for the tackle concrete issues A recent Pew Research
ern port city. right pro-Trump rally — with G-20, and if that’s not pos- like energy security in the Center survey of attitudes
“We are calling on the more than 100,000 demon- sible, then the G-19, to go meeting with Trump, not toward Trump in more
world to make Hamburg strators from across Europe forward with implementing engage in “some general than three dozen coun-
a focal point of the resis- and beyond expected to the Paris agreement and talk about world security.” tries found fewer than 3 in
tance against the old and take part. Officials estimate maybe doing even more,” Trump recently devoted a 10 respondents expressing
new capitalist authorities,” that some 8,000 protesters Greenpeace Internation- week to U.S. energy pro- confidence in his ability to
said the organizers, who from Europe’s violent left- al’s executive director Jen- duction. do the right thing on inter-
have ties to the Rote Flora wing scene to be on hand nifer Morgan told The Asso- At the same time, Trump national affairs.q
squat, a center for radical and have been tracking ciated Press.q