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VANG VIENG, Laos — Alongthe jungle-covered mountains ofLaos, squads of Chinese engi-neers are drilling hundreds of tun-nels and bridges to support a 260-mile railway, a $6 billion projectthat will eventually connect eightAsian countries.

Chinese money is buildingpower plants in Pakistan to ad-dress chronic electricity short-ages, part of an expected $46 bil-lion worth of investment.

Chinese planners are mappingout train lines from Budapest toBelgrade, Serbia, providing an-other artery for Chinese goodsflowing into Europe through a Chi-nese-owned port in Greece.

The massive infrastructureprojects, along with hundreds ofothers across Asia, Africa and Eu-rope, form the backbone of China’sambitious economic and geopoliti-cal agenda. President Xi Jinpingof China is literally andfiguratively forging ties, creatingnew markets for the country’sconstruction companies and ex-porting its model of state-led de-velopment in a quest to createdeep economic connections andstrong diplomatic relationships.

The initiative, called “One Belt,One Road,” looms on a scope andscale with little precedent in mod-ern history, promising more than$1 trillion in infrastructure andspanning more than 60 countries.To celebrate China’s new global in-fluence, Mr. Xi is gathering dozensof state leaders, including Presi-dent Vladimir V. Putin of Russia,in Beijing on Sunday.

It is global commerce on China’sterms.

Mr. Xi is aiming to use China’swealth and industrial know-howto create a new kind of globaliza-tion that will dispense with therules of the aging Western-domi-nated institutions. The goal is torefashion the global economic or-der, drawing countries and com-

Chinese workers and engineers at a tunnel being created near Vang Vieng, Laos, as part of a $6 billion Chinese rail project.PHOTOGRAPHS BY ADAM DEAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Remaking Global Trade in China’s ImageAs U.S. Turns Inward, Beijing Acts to Upend Economic Order

A poster for a Chinese high-speed train at a construction site fora bridge spanning the Mekong River near Luang Prabang, Laos.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Hackersare discovering that it is far moreprofitable to hold your datahostage than it is to steal it.

A decade-old internet scourgecalled ransomware went main-stream on Friday when cyber-criminals seized control of com-puters around the world, from thedelivery giant FedEx in theUnited States to Britain’s publichealth system, universities inChina and even Russia’s powerfulInterior Ministry.

On Saturday, investigatorscould not yet tell who was behindthe attack as security expertsaround the world raced to containit. Across Asia, several universi-ties and organizations said theyhad been affected. Renault, theEuropean automaker, said on Sat-urday that its French operationshad been hit, while one of itsplants in Slovakia was shut downbecause of the digital outbreak.

Computer users in the UnitedStates so far were less affected af-ter a 22-year-old British cyber-security researcher inadvertentlystopped the ransomware attackfrom spreading more widely.

Ransomware is nothing new.For years, there have beenstories of individuals or compa-nies horrified that they have been

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WASHINGTON — The premo-nition came in a Winston-Salemconference room, on an otherwisehappy election night in 2004, be-fore Richard M. Burr of North Car-olina had even declared victory inhis bid to join the Senate.

News out-lets had beguncalling therace. A watchparty waswaiting forhim. But hismind was else-where, at leastfor a moment.

“He said, ‘Ihope they don’t put me on the In-telligence Committee,’” recalledPaul Shumaker, a top strategistfor Mr. Burr who sat with him tofollow the returns. “ ‘It’s hardenough to sleep at night the way itis.’”

Mr. Burr’s present sleep habitsare unknown, particularly as hetiptoes at last toward criticism of apresident he had generallypraised — until the firing of James

Liking It or Not,Senator Leads Russia Inquiry

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CHICAGO — The sixth gradersat Newton Bateman, a public ele-mentary school here with a classicred brick facade, know the Googledrill.

In a social-science class lastyear, the students each grabbed aGoogle-powered laptop. Theyopened Google Classroom, an appwhere teachers make assign-

ments. Then they clicked onGoogle Docs, a writing program,and began composing essays.

Looking up from her laptop,Masuma Khan, then 11 years old,said her essay explored howschooling in ancient Athens dif-fered from her own. “Back then,they had wooden tablets and theyhad to take all of their notes on it,”she said. “Nowadays, we can justdo it in Google Docs.”

Chicago Public Schools, thethird-largest school district in theUnited States, with about 381,000students, is at the forefront of aprofound shift in American educa-

tion: the Googlification of theclassroom.

In the space of just five years,Google has helped upend the salesmethods companies use to placetheir products in classrooms. Ithas enlisted teachers and admin-istrators to promote Google’sproducts to other schools. It hasdirectly reached out to educatorsto test its products — effectivelybypassing senior district officials.And it has outmaneuvered Appleand Microsoft with a powerfulcombination of low-cost laptops,called Chromebooks, and freeclassroom apps.

Today, more than half the na-tion’s primary- and secondary-school students — more than 30million children — use Google ed-ucation apps like Gmail and Docs,the company said. And Chrome-books, Google-powered laptopsthat initially struggled to find apurpose, are now a powerhouse inAmerica’s schools. Today they ac-count for more than half the mo-bile devices shipped to schools.

“Between the fall of 2012 andnow, Google went from an inter-

How Google ConqueredThe American Classroom

Schools Transformed by Tech Giant May BeGiving More Than They’re Getting

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Students at Newton Bateman Elementary School in Chicagouse Google-powered laptops and Google education apps.

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BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Cheerserupted as the protesters toppledthe statue of former PresidentHugo Chávez, the metal crackingagainst concrete. The scenes, dis-tributed around Venezuela on so-cial media, showed a crowdsmashing the sculpture on a curb-side as others came to set a fire in-side its shattered belly.

But when the authoritiesrounded up suspects for the van-dalism, they were not taken to anordinary court. Instead, they werehauled off to a military base,where they faced the judges of amilitary tribunal this past week.

President Nicolás Maduro, be-leaguered by a second month ofprotests against him, hasprosecuted political rivals underterrorism laws and expanded hispowers by emergency decrees.His backers on the Supreme Courthave even tried to dissolve the na-

tional legislature, which is led bythe political opposition.

Now, the president is turning tomilitary courts to tighten his gripfurther, prosecuting demonstra-tors and other civilians in tri-bunals that the governmentclosely controls.

At least 120 people have beenjailed by military courts sinceearly April, when demonstratorsbegan taking to the streets to callfor new elections, according to Pe-nal Forum, a legal group assistingthose arrested. Another groupmonitoring cases, Provea,counted at least 90 people jailedby the military. Both groups con-tend that the country has never

used the military courts against somany civilians this way outside ofwartime.

“Military justice sows the great-est terror in our population,” saidJuan Miguel Matheus, an opposi-tion congressman in the state ofCarabobo. He said at least 69 peo-ple there had been jailed by themilitary since early April.

Those held include students,store owners, mechanics andfarmers, rights groups say. An en-tire family was arraigned before amilitary tribunal in Caracas thispast week and charged with incit-ing rebellion. In one case in thecity of Valencia, two people werebrought before military courts onsuspicion of stealing legs of hamduring a round of looting — thencharged with rebellion as well, ac-cording to Penal Forum.

“They are being treated likethey are combatants,” said Al-fredo Romero, the director of the

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‘NEVER QUIT’ President Trump gave a pep talk to Liberty Universitygraduates after vowing a quick decision on a new F.B.I. chief. PAGE 20

The missile, the first launched since anew president took office in the South,flew 430 miles before landing in the sea,the South Korean military said. PAGE 14

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WASHINGTON — In thesmall dining room next to theOval Office where he worksmuch of the time, PresidentTrump keeps a stack of color-coded maps of the United Statesrepresenting the results of the2016 election. The counties hewon are blotchy red and spanmost of the nation.

Mr. Trump sometimes handsthe maps out to visitors as a kindof parting gift, and a framedportrait-size version was hung ona wall in the West Wing lastweek. In conversations, thepresident dwells on the map andits import, reminding visitorsabout how wrong the polls wereand inflating the scope of hisvictory.

At the root of Mr. Trump’sunpredictable presidency, ac-cording to people close to him, isa deep frustration about attackson his legitimacy, and a worry

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