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Revenge will be reinforced step by step, day by day.

TOKYO—Carlos Ghosn can be detained without charge for an additional 10 days, a Tokyo court said Friday, giving prosecutors more time to interrogate the former Nissan Motor Co. chairman about suspected financial offenses.

The court ruling is in line with the usual pattern for criminal suspects in Japan, who can be held for roughly three weeks before any formal charges are brought. During that time, prosecutors can interrogate the suspect without a lawyer present.

Mr. Ghosn and a longtime aide at Nissan, Greg Kelly, were arrested Nov. 19 on suspicion of underreporting Mr. Ghosn’s income in Nissan’s financial reports over five fiscal years ending March 2015. Prosecutors said they suspected Mr. Ghosn’s compensation was about ¥10 billion ($88 million) over those five years, about twice the amount stated in the reports. Both suspects can now be held through Dec. 10.

実需直近

SHANGHAI—President Trump says he wants General Motors Co. GM -1.01% to stop building cars in China, its biggest market. That would make GM—already plagued by weak sales in the U.S.—vulnerable to setbacks in China too.

In today’s globalized car industry, auto makers need their factories to be close to their customers if they’re to turn a profit, a calculation that is being reinforced by the tit-for-tat tariffs China and the U.S. have imposed on each other’s exports, analysts say.

“Even if this tariff was zero, GM still wouldn’t build its China volumes in the U.S.,” said Robin Zhu, a senior analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein. “The supply chain would be too long, and logistics costs would make the cars structurally unprofitable.”

The only cars that make sense to export are high-end, low-volume vehicles, industry analysts say. But even Tesla Inc., which has specialized in that sort of vehicle until now, is planning to move away from exporting. It is building a factory in China as it aims to transition from niche startup to mainstream auto maker.

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Mr Saikawa seems to be implicated in the crime created by Mr. Ghosn.

TOKYO—Nissan Motor Co.’s chief executive told employees Carlos Ghosn had too much power as chairman, highlighting the tension that had been welling up between the two men before Mr. Ghosn’s arrest a week ago.

The fallout from the arrest spread Monday as Mr. Ghosn was ousted as chairman of Nissan partner Mitsubishi Motors Corp. , following his removal last week as Nissan’s chairman.

Nissan CEO Hiroto Saikawa was long seen as a close ally of Mr. Ghosn, but since Mr. Ghosn’s arrest he has painted a dark picture of the Brazil-born executive’s reign, saying he was improperly given the lion’s share of credit for Nissan’s revival in the 2000s instead of Nissan’s rank-and-file.

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Here you are! I could predict this consequence of murder.

The Saudi government wants the death penalty for five of 11 people it has charged so far over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Which way is better for the recipient countries?

HONG KONG—The U.S. has launched a new strategy aimed at ramping up investment in Asia to vie with Chinese President Xi Jinping’s overseas infrastructure-building spree, as Beijing grapples with setbacks to its sprawling program.

But China has a head start—and a state-led model that makes it easier to finance and build on a large scale. Mr. Xi’s Belt and Road initiative has offered hundreds of billions of dollars for railways, bridges and ports in dozens of countries, expanding its strategic influence along the way. Among the recipients are economies that have struggled to attract U.S. investment or adequate financing from multilateral banks.

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中国が本格的にヨーロッパに来る　現代版ワールシュタットの戦いへ

BELGRADE, Serbia—Europe is distracted by internal discord over immigration and its tense relationship with Russia and the U.S. Seeking to fill the void, China is taking advantage of a historic opportunity to wedge itself into the heart of the West.

Deal by deal, applying experience honed in Asia and Africa, China is constructing parallel financial and commercial networks in Central and Eastern Europe to challenge the global order. It has taken footholds in more than a dozen nations on the periphery of the European Union. Some, such as Hungary, are smaller, more marginalized members. Others, including Serbia, are on the runway for admission.

Chinese workers set a highway through Montenegro’s impassable mountains on pillars as tall as a 50-floor skyscraper—part of an emerging corridor of highways, ports and rail lines that outlines a new Chinese trade route between Greece’s Aegean coast and Latvia on the frigid Baltic.

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貿易戦争は長く継続する

Asia’s beaten-up stock markets enjoyed a powerful rally in the previous trading session, buoyed by the prospect of warmer relations between the world’s two largest economies. But that optimism didn’t last long.

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ウィグル　中国に刺さった棘

CANBERRA, Australia—Chinese authorities aggressively expanded the scale of internment camps in Xinjiang this year, according to a new study, even as China’s program of mass detentions of Muslims in the region started to draw international scrutiny.

An examination of satellite imagery released Thursday by intelligence analysts from an Australian security think tank mapped the expansion of 28 detention camps in the restive frontier region. Their analysis found that total floor area of these facilities grew more than 465% from early 2016, with the greatest growth occurring in the three months ended this September.

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中国経済は落ちていく。不良債権、貿易戦争、一帯一路の不完全さ、そして戦略的中国封じ込め、

BEIJING—Concerns about the trade dispute with the U.S. are sapping activity in China’s factories, adding to the troubles of an economy already slowing faster than the government expected.

The official purchasing managers index, a gauge of activity in the critical manufacturing sector, dropped in October to its lowest in more than two years, government data released Wednesday showed. Subindexes measuring new orders, including for exports, and factory output fell precipitously as well, signs that economists said point to more weakness ahead.

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A long-term tech war between U.S. and China     これは10年は続くかも、アメリカ、中国製チップ・メーカー追い出し、

The U.S. has raised the stakes in a battle with Beijing over intellectual property by restricting American firms from doing business with a state-owned Chinese chip maker that Micron Technology Inc. has accused of stealing its secrets.

Citing national and economic security concerns, the Commerce Department said Monday that it will begin restricting American companies from selling software and technology goods to Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co., a semiconductor startup into which the Chinese government has been pouring money as part of an effort to build its own chip industry. The decision has the potential to cause significant damage to the new chip maker, which still relies on U.S. technology to produce its own chips.