Politics

  Bloomberg Hong Kong is preparing to cocoon some 1,000 people involved in the city’s July 1 handover anniversary, fueling speculation that Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the celebrations. Security staff, including police officers protecting a “very, very important person,” will enter the closed-loop system in readiness for hosting an unspecified Chinese state leader, the South China Morning Post ...

  Bloomberg China blasted Taiwanese opposition leader Eric Chu after he appeared to play down a key agreement between the two sides, in a sign of new frictions between Beijing and its traditional negotiating partner in Taipei. Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokesman Ma Xiaoguang criticised Chu for remarks in the US in which he called the agreement that both sides ...

Bloomberg Talks between Russia and Turkey brought no signs of progress on a deal to unblock shipments of Ukrainian grain that have contributed to warnings of global food-supply crisis. Kyiv, which wasn’t invited to participate in the talks in Ankara, is skeptical of the Kremlin’s intentions and is seeking strong security guarantees that would allow it to export the key ...

  Bloomberg One of Australia’s largest Chinese-language media platforms came under cyberattack early in the hours of June 4, potentially putting users’ information at risk, The Australian newspaper reported. Users of the news organisation Media Today received authentication texts to their mobile phones after more than 20 million attempts were made to reset user passwords, the paper reported, citing a ...

  Bloomberg Secretary of State Antony Blinken slammed Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and El Salvador for repressing journalists as the US kicked off a summit of leaders from Latin America in Los Angeles, with tensions between Washington and the region’s authoritarian nations hanging over the event. “In Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, the simple act of carrying out investigative journalism is a ...

Bloomberg The UK has displayed “bad faith” in how it has approached the part of the Brexit treaty dealing with Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said. “It is perfectly reasonable to look for ways to improve the operation of the Protocol — but unfortunately what we have seen are bad-faith efforts to undermine a treaty freely entered into,” ...

Bloomberg President Emmanuel Macron’s party and its allies could lose their outright majority in this month’s legislative elections as support for a rival left-wing grouping grows, according to fresh polls published days ahead of the first round of voting. A poll by Ifop-Fiducial for LCI TV released based on an online survey of 1,840 adults on June 3-6 projects that ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden and Juan Guaido plan to speak remotely during the Summit of the Americas this week, after the US declined to invite the Venezuela opposition leader to participate in the meeting in person. Biden was likely to hold a video call with Guaido, Brian Nichols, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs, said to Venezuelan online ...

Bloomberg Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany is ready to deploy more troops to the Baltics as part of a Nato effort to build up its eastern flank in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Baltic leaders had urgently pushed for an increased troop deployment to mount a stronger defense against a Russian threat — and the German move would ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron’s fiercest domestic rivals are standing by him in a fresh row with the government in Kyiv over his calls not to shame Russia. Tensions between France and Ukraine worsened over the weekend after Macron told a national newspaper that allies shouldn’t “humiliate” Moscow to improve the chance of reaching a peaceful solution to its invasion ...