| Not-so-nice list | The Pentagon has named 20 companies — including Huawei Technologies and Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology — it says are owned or controlled by China's military. While the move may be largely symbolic since it doesn't confer new authorities on the president, it comes as relations between the world's two largest economies continue to deteriorate, and as China has emerged as a key foreign policy issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. Overhaul fizzles | Congress is in a partisan standoff over how to respond to nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd in police custody, with Democrats and Republicans refusing to budge from their own proposals for changing U.S. policing practices. The House, controlled by Democrats, plans to vote today on legislation that supporters say has more teeth than the measure the party's members blocked yesterday in the Republican-controlled Senate. China model | German politicians contemplating life after Angela Merkel departs from the scene are taking inspiration from China, Arne Delfs reports. Studying its transformation into the world's pre-eminent digital economy, members of the chancellor's party are considering some radical ideas on how to run Europe's most powerful economy — involving blockchain technology like Bitcoin, artificial intelligence and data-based decision making — with an emphasis on adhering to democratic principles. A volatile leader | Even by North Korean standards, Kim Jong Un has been unpredictable this year. He promised to unveil a "new strategic weapon" to counter the U.S. and then scaled back ballistic missile tests. He sent a condolence letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in and then last week blew up the $15 million liaison office that Seoul built to exchange such messages. As Jon Herskovitz and Jeong-Ho Lee report, the recent policy shifts may point to a deeper problem for Kim: He's stuck. Income gap | The Covid-19 outbreak is putting pressure on politicians and companies in the U.K. to confront policies activists say they have ignored — and in some cases exacerbated — regarding the plight of minorities. As Andrew Atkinson and Zoe Schneeweiss explain, Asian and Black households have higher rates of "persistently low incomes" than White families, while they and other lower-paid workers have borne the financial brunt of the pandemic. That fact is forcing the government to insist there will be no return to austerity.  What to Watch - Secretary of State Michael Pompeo says the Trump administration is working with the European Union over how to restart travel suspended by the pandemic, even as the bloc weighs whether to exclude Americans from an initial reopening plan.
- Negotiations between two longtime Balkan foes just hit another roadblock after the president of Kosovo was accused of having committed war crimes, just as he was preparing for talks with his Serbian counterpart at the White House.
- Democrats are telling state delegates to stay home from the party's nominating convention in Milwaukee this summer amid plans to significantly scale back the event due to the coronavirus pandemic.
And finally ... As the Black Lives Matter movement puts companies on the spot for slavery-associated brands, multinationals also are facing growing pressure to address the racism built into their products. Unilever plans to rename Fair & Lovely, a melanin-suppressing face cream that's one of its best-sellers in India, as the backlash against branding that trades on racial stereotypes spreads beyond the U.S.  A cosmetic counter in India's financial capital, Mumbai. "We recognize that the use of the words 'fair,' 'white' and 'light' suggest a singular ideal of beauty that we don't think is right, and we want to address this," said Sunny Jain, President of Unilever's beauty and personal care division. Photographer: Kuni Takahashi/Bloomberg | 
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