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WASHINGTON — The crisis inCharlottesville, Va., presentedPresident Trump with a choice be-tween adopting the unifying toneof a traditional president or dou-bling down on the go-it-alone ap-proach that got him elected in2016.

On Monday, Mr. Trump offereda glimpse of a more calming andconventional president, but heended the day with a flurry of an-gry tweets that left little doubt heintended to govern on his ownterms.

Mr. Trump, after two days of is-suing equivocal statements,bowed to overwhelming pressurethat he personally condemn whitesupremacists who incited bloodyweekend demonstrations in Char-lottesville.

“Racism is evil,” said Mr.Trump, delivering a statementfrom the White House at a hastilyarranged appearance meant tohalt the growing political threatposed by the unrest. “And thosewho cause violence in its name arecriminals and thugs, including theK.K.K., neo-Nazis, white suprem-acists and other hate groups thatare repugnant to everything wehold dear as Americans.”

But before and after his concili-atory statement — which calledfor “love,” “joy” and “justice” —Mr. Trump issued classically caus-tic Twitter attacks on Kenneth C.Frazier, the head of Merck Phar-maceuticals and one of the coun-try’s top African-American execu-tives.

Mr. Frazier announced Mondaymorning that he was resigningfrom the American Manufactur-ing Council — the first of threechief executives who quit the ad-visory panel on Monday — to pro-test Mr. Trump’s initial equivocalstatements on Charlottesville.

“Now that Ken Frazier of MerckPharma has resigned from Presi-dent’s Manufacturing Council, hewill have more time to LOWERRIPOFF DRUG PRICES!” the

president wrote at 8:54 a.m., as hedeparted his golf resort in Bed-minster, N.J., for a day trip back toWashington.

Shortly before leaving the capi-tal, Mr. Trump attacked the newsmedia for blowing the episode outof proportion.

“Made additional remarks onCharlottesville and realize onceagain that the #Fake News Mediawill never be satisfied...truly badpeople!” he wrote Mondayevening.

“Trump faced a fork in the roadtoday, and he took it,” said Repre-sentative Nancy Pelosi, Democratof California and the House minor-ity leader. “He showed cowardiceon Saturday by refusing to call outthe racists and neo-Nazis, and onMonday he showed how uncom-fortable he was in delivering an-other kind of message.”

Even Mr. Trump’s allies worriedthat his measured remarks, deliv-

Trump Condemns Racists But Creates Fresh Uproar

Remarks on Virginia Are Seen as Too Late —He Also Attacks a C.E.O. on Twitter

By GLENN THRUSH

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President Trump said on Monday that the white supremacists responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, Va., had “evil” views.

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A Chance to Spy on the Sun

LONDON — The Ferraris weredriving people batty in affluentSouth Kensington. Drivers revvedtheir engines and ripped past Har-rods. Residents were already irri-tated by the dust and noise fromsuperrich neighbors building un-derground swimming pools andcinemas. Now came complaintsabout Middle Eastern “types”drag-racing at night.

Up in North Kensington, a partof London that is home to some of

Britain’s poorest residents, thecomplaints were more elemental.People were fighting plans toclose a day care center, lease out apublic library and demolish acommunity college. At one publichousing project, Grenfell Tower,residents had complained aboutfire safety issues for years: powersurges that blew up television setsand filled rooms with smoke, out-

dated fire extinguishers and theabsence of a communal fire alarm.

The very different complaintsfrom the opposite ends of Kens-ington received very different re-sponses from the 50-membercouncil representing the RoyalBorough of Kensington andChelsea. The Ferraris were debat-ed in the council chamber. Fines ofup to 1,000 pounds were imposedon revving engines. Undergroundconstruction projects were re-stricted.

The concerns in North Kensing-

Tower Fire Lays Bare Divided District’s TensionsBy KATRIN BENNHOLD

Harrods department store in South Kensington has long been a symbol of luxury in London.ANDREW TESTA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

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LOSING LONDON

Two Sides of a Borough

C.E.O.S OUT Three corporatechieftains quit a presidentialcouncil in protest. PAGE B1

POLICE TACTICS When protestershave guns, strategy is reduced tokeeping enemies apart. PAGE A12

MISIDENTIFIED Online sleuthsmistook an Arkansas lab directorfor a rally participant. PAGE A12

BEIJING — In Chinese schools,students learn that the UnitedStates became a great nationpartly by stealing technologyfrom Britain. In the halls of gov-ernment, officials speak of theneed to inspire innovation by pro-tecting inventions. In board-rooms, executives strategizeabout using infringement laws tofell foreign rivals.

China is often portrayed as aland of fake gadgets and piratedsoftware, where intellectual prop-erty like patents, trademarks andcopyrights are routinely ignored.

The reality is more complex.China takes conflicting posi-

tions on intellectual property, ig-noring it in some cases while up-holding it in others. Underlyingthose contradictions is a long-heldview of intellectual property notas a rigid legal principle but as atool to meet the country’s goals.

Those goals are getting moreambitious. China is now gatheringknow-how in industries of the fu-ture like microchips and electriccars, often by pushing foreign

Chinese Quest for TechnologyIs Aimed at Future Dominance

By JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ

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WASHINGTON — PresidentTrump, following days of bellicosethreats toward North Korea andjitters about a looming trade warwith China, moved on severalfronts on Monday to ease tensionsin East Asia, after making the re-gion a flash point for his adminis-tration.

As he opened a long-awaitedtrade action against China, Mr.Trump used uncharacteristicallyrestrained language and a multi-step bureaucratic process thatwill quite likely put off punitivesteps against Beijing for months,if not forever. On North Korea,several of the president’s top ad-visers tried to tamp down fears ofa clash after his threat to rain “fireand fury” on the governmentthere.

In Seoul, Gen. Joseph F. Dun-

ford Jr., the chairman of the JointChiefs of Staff, assured PresidentMoon Jae-in of South Korea thatmilitary options against North Ko-rea were a last resort. His mes-sage was the latest effort to re-inforce a sense of calm that wasearlier telegraphed by DefenseSecretary Jim Mattis and Secre-tary of State Rex W. Tillerson.

Taken together, the administra-tion’s tempered words under-scored the complex reality thatMr. Trump faces in Asia: Havingexplicitly linked China’s coopera-tion on North Korea with his tradepolicy toward Beijing, the presi-dent is now softening his toughlanguage on trade to enlist China’ssupport in combating a nuclearthreat from Pyongyang.

Mr. Trump campaigned against

After Promising ‘Fire and Fury,’A Push to Assuage Fears in Asia

By MARK LANDLER

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Rupert Murdoch has repeat-edly urged President Trump tofire him. Anthony Scaramucci, thepresident’s former communica-tions director, thrashed him ontelevision as a white nationalist.Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, the na-tional security adviser, refused toeven say he could work with him.

For months, Mr. Trump has con-sidered ousting Stephen K. Ban-non, the White House chief strat-egist and relentless nationalistwho ran the Breitbart website andcalled it a “platform for the alt-right.” Mr. Trump has sent Mr.Bannon to a kind of internal exile,and has not met face-to-face formore than a week with a man whowas once a fixture in the Oval Of-fice, according to aides andfriends of the president.

So far, Mr. Trump has not been

able to follow through — a productof his dislike of confrontation, thebonds of a foxhole friendshipforged during the 2016 presiden-tial campaign and concerns aboutwhat mischief Mr. Bannon mightdo once he leaves the protectivecustody of the West Wing.

Not least, Mr. Bannon embodiesthe defiant populism at the core ofthe president’s agenda. Despitebeing marginalized, Mr. Bannonconsulted with the president re-peatedly over the weekend as Mr.Trump struggled to respond to theneo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville,Va. In general, Mr. Bannon hascautioned the president not to crit-icize far-right activists too se-verely for fear of antagonizing asmall but energetic part of hisbase.

Bannon in Limbo as PresidentIs Urged to Oust Lightning Rod

By MAGGIE HABERMAN and GLENN THRUSH

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The white supremacists andright-wing extremists who cametogether over the weekend inCharlottesville, Va., are nowheaded home, many of themready and energized, they said, toset their sights on bigger prizes.

Some were making arrange-ments to appear at futuremarches. Some were planning torun for public office. Others, ta-king a cue from the Charlottesvilleevent — a protest, nominally, ofthe removal of a Confederate mon-ument — were organizing effortsto preserve white heritage sym-bols in their home regions.

Calling it “an opportune time,”Preston Wiginton, a Texas-basedwhite nationalist, declared on Sat-urday that he planned to hold a“White Lives Matter” march onSept. 11 on the campus of TexasA&M — with a keynote speaker,Richard B. Spencer, who was fea-tured at the Charlottesville event.

Mr. Wiginton was not the onlyone seeking to capitalize on theweekend’s events. On Monday,Austin Gillespie, a conservativeFlorida lawyer who is betterknown as Augustus Sol Invictusand attended the “Unite theRight” rally in Virginia, said heplanned to announce on Tuesdaythat he would seek Florida’s Re-publican nomination for the Sen-ate. And at a news conference onMonday, Mr. Spencer, a prominentwhite supremacist, promised toreturn to Charlottesville for an-other rally. “There is no way in hellthat I am not going back,” he said.

The far right, which has re-turned to prominence in the pastyear or so, has always been anamalgam of factions and causes,some with pro-Confederate orneo-Nazi leanings, some opposedto political correctness or femi-nism. But the Charlottesvilleevent, the largest of its kind in re-cent years, exposed the pre-exist-ing fault lines in the movement.

The ugliness of the rally —

Far Right PlansIts Next MovesWith New Vigor

By ALAN FEUER

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It should be a joyous summer for HBO,but a hacking and criticism over acoming series have cast a pall. PAGE B1

BUSINESS DAY B1-6

Headaches at HBO

Simone Askew is the first African-American woman to hold the higheststudent position at West Point. PAGE A9

A Cadet Topples Two Barriers

A man was accused of trying to attack abank in Oklahoma City using a devicesimilar to the one that destroyed thefederal building there in 1995. PAGE A9

NATIONAL A9-18

F.B.I. Thwarts BombingAmsterdam is trying to clean up itsfamous red light district by empow-ering those who work there. PAGE A8

INTERNATIONAL A4-8

An Employee-Owned Brothel

The president’s threat to use militaryforce against Venezuela has stirredmemories of U.S. intervention. PAGE A4

Trump Roils Latin America

Sampling a repertory company’s glori-ous range at the Stratford Festival inOntario. A Critic’s Notebook. PAGE C5

Theatrical Perfume Inhaled

A dreamer’s idea of using artificialintelligence to create music and art iscoming to fruition via Google. PAGE C1

ARTS C1-7

The Art of Neural Networks

A 59-year-old taxi driver named MehariBokrezion took his last breath whilestopping for a rest during his shift inLower Manhattan. Nobody noticed himfor 18 hours. PAGE A19

NEW YORK A19-21

A Cabby’s Quiet Death

Geoffrey S. Berman, the lawyer beingconsidered by the Trump administra-tion for United States attorney in Man-hattan, is easygoing and relativelyanonymous. PAGE A20

A Low-Key Candidate

David Brooks PAGE A23

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Frank Ntilikina, a 19-year-old guardwho was drafted in the first round, ishaving fun in a new country. But he’sready to get to work. PAGE B7

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From France to the Knicks

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