Politics

Bloomberg Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton reiterated his earlier claims that the US could provide Australia with two nuclear submarines by 2030, without providing material evidence that such a deal would occur. Speaking on the national broadcaster’s “Insiders” program Sunday, Dutton said he had visited counterparts in Connecticut and “spoken with them there” about acquiring the equipment, even though the ...

  Bloomberg Biden administration officials have decided to reject a vague new assertion by China that the Taiwan Strait is not “international waters” and are increasingly concerned the stance could result in more frequent challenges at sea for the democratically-governed island, according to people familiar with the matter. Chinese officials have made such remarks repeatedly in meetings with US counterparts ...

  Bloomberg Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s Socialists are heading for a heavy electoral defeat in the country’s most populous region of Andalusia on Sunday, highlighting the scale of the challenge he faces to win re-election in a national vote due next year. Sanchez and his government have been struggling to cope with the economic fallout from Russia’s invasion of ...

  Bloomberg China launched its third and most modern aircraft carrier, a watershed moment for President Xi Jinping’s efforts to modernize the armed forces and narrow his country’s military gap with the US. The new carrier, christened the Fujian, was launched from Jiangnan Shipyard near Shanghai on Friday at ceremony attended by military and civilian leaders, state broadcaster China Central ...

Bloomberg US officials are working to arrange a possible call this summer between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to two people in Washington familiar with the plans, with tensions high between the world’s two biggest economies. The people didn’t have more details on what the US would want to be the focus of the call, but ...

  Bloomberg Protests continued across India for the second straight day over a shift in the army’s recruitment policy to short-term jobs, putting pressure on Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has pledged to boost employment in one of the fastest growing economies in the world. Television footage showed crowds of protesters, who appear to be potential recruits, setting fire to ...

Bloomberg Colombia’s presidential election this weekend is more than just a choice between political models —it’s a contest that’s dividing the generations like no other. Gustavo Petro, 62, a former guerrilla fighter who says he wants to end an economic model based on oil and coal, has a wide lead among younger voters who grew up during during the relative ...

  Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro criticized an expected increase in domestic fuel prices by Petroleo Brasileiro SA, saying the state-owned oil producer has made exaggerated profits during the crisis, without taking into account Brazil’s “public interest.” “Petrobras may plunge Brazil into chaos,” Bolsonaro said in a Twitter post early Friday, referring to the oil giant. “Its chief executive, directors and ...

Bloomberg The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania are in Kyiv for talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in by far the highest-profile visit to the country since Russia invaded at the end of February. They traveled overnight by train to Kyiv and were joined by Romania’s president in a show of solidarity ahead of an expected recommendation Friday from ...

Bloomberg Russia and China gave alternative accounts of President Xi Jinping’s birthday call with Vladimir Putin, as both sides seek to manage perceptions of their relationship in the wake of Moscow’s war in Ukraine. The Kremlin readout said the two men, both 69, discussed increasing economic cooperation, trade and military-technical ties between China and Russia on Wednesday. Moscow’s version also ...