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Welcome Boost from China to Pressure on North Korea

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson pose for a photograph during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 50th
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) in Pasay City southeast of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. A global pressure campaign
on North Korea propelled by sharp new U.N. sanctions received a welcome boost Sunday from China, the North’s economic lifeline, as Beijing called on its neighbor
to halt its missile and nuclear tests. (Rouelle Umali/Pool Photo via AP)
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Pence Slams Report on Possible 2020 Presidential Bid

By CATHERINE LUCEY not run. The formal rebuttal of a news re- eral Republicans looking ahead
Associated Press In a statement released by the port by the vice president was an to 2020, calling it a “shadow cam-
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — Vice White House, Pence said Sunday’s unusual move. paign.”
President Mike Pence has pushed story in The New York Times “is dis- In it, Pence also said his team will It notes Pence’s political sched-
back against a news report sug- graceful and offensive to me, my “focus all our efforts to advance ule and active fundraising, though
gesting he is laying groundwork for family, and our entire team.” He the president’s agenda and see it also says unnamed advisers
a possible presidential bid in 2020 added that “the allegations in this him re-elected in 2020.” have signaled that he’d only run if
if President Donald Trump does article are categorically false.” The report details efforts of sev- Trump doesn’t.q