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Article snippet: (Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: • World leaders are converging in Europe for the G-20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany, that starts Friday. China’s president, Xi Jinping, is already in Berlin, where he has found an ally on free trade and climate change in Chancellor Angela Merkel. President Trump’s visit to Poland has led his critics to worry that it will be seen as a tacit American endorsement of the right-wing, populist government in Warsaw. _____ • Japan and the European Union appear ready to announce the outlines of a broad trade pact tomorrow, just before Mr. Trump’s arrival for the G-20 meeting. If the two can reach agreement on the details, the deal could rival Nafta as the world’s largest free trade zone and make the U.S. less competitive in key sectors like car manufacturing. (The American auto industry is already slowing down.) Mr. Trump has a critical choice to make, our economic columnist writes: Stick to the postwar economic order, or blow it up. _____ • “You are ridiculous.” That was Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, when he addressed the European Parliament. Mr. Juncker was miffed that only about 30 of the 751 members showed up for the meeting. “We are not ridiculous — please, please,” the Parliament’s president interjected. Mr. Juncker later apologized, but the exchange highlights the legislature’s shortcomings. _____ • At the Tour de France, Pet... Link to the full article to read more