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On the front page of the press, the announcement yesterday of a new Turkish offensive in northern Syria.

According to the Daily Sabah , the Turkish army is preparing for "a major offensive against the Islamic State group and the terrorism of the Kurdistan Workers' Party", to which the Syrian Kurds are affiliated. An operation "imminent", whose goal would be the creation of a "security zone" in the region, according to the Turkish newspaper, which quotes the warning of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the United States, summoned to prove a good times for all that they are "real allies" of Turkey.

While talks between Washington and Ankara on the security zone promised in December 2018 by Donald Trump do not end any more, "Erdogan is impatient and wants to finish with the Kurds on its border," writes on his side The Orient The day . The Lebanese daily, which recalls that the Americans are still present in Syria and still support the Kurds in the fight against the Islamic State group, reports that the United States have already warned that a new Turkish offensive would be "unacceptable". A repeated warning on the front page of the National , Abu Dhabi: "the United States says they will stop the Turkish invasion of Syria."

Donald Trump's United States is also in the middle of a trade war with China, which they accuse of manipulating its currency to limit the effect of rising US taxes. Charges swept by Beijing: "ridiculous", "absurd", replies The Global Times , ensuring that China has no interest in bringing down the yuan, and disrupt the stability of its currency. "China does not want a trade war, but it will fight to the end," threatens the official newspaper.

In the United States, the escalation of the Sino-US trade war is increasingly worrying The Washington Post , which reports the "lack of confidence" inspired by the approach of Donald Trump, which he suspects of not have a clear long-term strategy against China. The US press also worries about the risk of a military crackdown in Hong Kong, where pro-democracy protesters continue to challenge Beijing - a crackdown that would threaten the conclusion of a trade deal between China and the United States, according to The Wall Street Journal . "We must tell Chinese President Xi Jinping that he should not invade Hong Kong if he wants to reach an agreement on trade," pleads the newspaper.

The standoff between the United States and China is also a big concern for the European press. "The bidding war" between the United States and China alarms the French newspaper La Croix , which evokes a confrontation at the same time "economic and geopolitical", in particular in the Pacific, where Washington tries to consolidate its positions, in the face of the military threat growing of China. But for many European dailies, Donald Trump is however the first responsible for the tensions with Beijing - as evidenced by the Catalan newspaper La Vanguardia , which accuses him of "aggravate the tensions with China, by his allegations on the manipulations of the yuan ".

"Trump, the choice of the shock", denounces the French newspaper L'Humanité , very reassembled against the presumed objectives of the American president: "an imperial strategy, imperialist, which ambitionait (rait) a world domination restored" - today with the detriment from China, and tomorrow, probably, to the detriment of Europe, according to L'Humanité.

Donald Trump, about whom the writer Toni Morrison said it was "out of the question" that she died, as long as he was still in power. The first African-American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature will not have had the time to fulfill her wish. Toni Morrison died on Monday, at age 88. The press around the world pays tribute to him. "Toni Morrison, all the words of a black anger": the Swiss newspaper Le Temps greets a writer who "gave a literary visibility to black America". "Beloved", loved "for eternity", writes the French newspaper Libération , in reference to his most popular novel. "Toni Morrison, 1931-2019", simply title The Guardian , in the United Kingdom. Toni Morrison, to whom we will leave the last word, she who wrote in her novel entitled "Love": "hatred (...) consumes everything, except herself, so that whatever your sorrow, your face becomes exactly the same as your enemy's "...

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