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The World in Brief from The Economist
China blocks Boeing deliveries; Trump pulls funding from Harvard, and more
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China ordered airlines to halt deliveries of Boeing planes and purchases of aircraft components in retaliation for Donald Trump’s tariffs. Also, The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion of federal funds for Harvard University after the Ivy League college became the first institution to reject policy changes it had demanded.
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