Politics

  Bloomberg Chinese military officials in recent months have repeatedly asserted that the Taiwan Strait isn’t international waters during meetings with US counterparts, according to a person familiar with the situation, generating concern within the Biden administration. The statement disputing the US view of international law has been delivered to the American government by Chinese officials on multiple occasions and ...

Bloomberg Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro asked US President Joe Biden for help in his re-election bid during a private meeting on the sidelines of a regional summit this week, portraying his leftist opponent as a danger to US interests, according to people familiar with the matter. During the meeting, Biden underlined the importance of preserving the integrity of Brazil’s democratic ...

Bloomberg French voters begin the process of electing a parliament on Sunday in a two-stage ballot that will determine how much power recently re-elected President Emmanuel Macron will actually have. If polls are right, he should maintain control, perhaps only barely. The latest surveys suggest Macron’s renamed party, Renaissance, and its allies should remain the largest bloc in the 577-seat ...

  Bloomberg Australia Defense Minister Richard Marles said he had a “very frank and full exchange” with his Chinese counterpart on Sunday, marking the highest-level meeting between the countries in more than two years amid a flare-up in tensions. Marles said he discussed issues including the interception of an Australian aircraft by a Chinese jet last month with Defense Minister ...

  Bloomberg US and Chinese defense officials said they planned further talks after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and his counterpart sparred over Taiwan and other regional security issues for almost an hour. Both sides emerged from the first in-person encounter between Austin and Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore citing plans for additional discussions. A Chinese military spokesman described ...

  Bloomberg Ivanka Trump, the daughter of Donald Trump and a former White House adviser, said she accepted that there was no evidence of fraud and that her father had lost the 2020 election. A clip of her testimony was played during the House hearing on the January 6 attack on the Capitol. She was asked in a deposition what ...

  Bloomberg President Jair Bolsonaro said he fears the worst may have happened to a British journalist and an expert on indigenous peoples who went missing four days ago in the Brazilian Amazon after receiving threats. Brazilian authorities have been searching for Dom Phillips, a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper, and Bruno Araujo Pereira since they disappeared during a ...

Bloomberg Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida vowed his country would expand its security role in Asia, and seek to bolster the rules-based order in a speech at an international security forum in Singapore. In the first keynote presentation by a Japanese premier at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue in eight years, Kishida said he would lay out a “Free and Open ...

  Bloomberg A Chinese-Canadian tycoon who was seized at a Hong Kong hotel five years ago and has lost much of his sprawling business empire to the Chinese government is about to go on trial, the Wall Street Journal reported. Prosecutors in Shanghai plan to charge Xiao Jianhua with illegal collection of public deposits, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar ...

Bloomberg Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged global leaders to revive the unity they showed during the pandemic and coordinate efforts to deter Vladimir Putin. “Weapons and sanctions are also a vaccine against Covid-22, which was brought by Russia,” Zelenskiy told a TIME100 Gala event via video-link. Fighting continued in the east of Ukraine, where Russian forces are pushing to capture ...