Politics

Bloomberg Secretary of State Antony Blinken met French President Emmanuel Macron and other top French officials in Paris on Tuesday as the US looks to move past a spat over a defense agreement with Australia and the United Kingdom. Blinken and Macron met for 30 to 40 minutes to discuss deeper cooperation in the Indo-Pacific and the Sahel region of ...

Bloomberg The UK sent officials to Afghanistan to hold talks with Taliban leaders for the first time since the mass evacuation of Kabul in August. The officials discussed on Tuesday how the UK could help Afghanistan address a humanitarian crisis, the importance of preventing the country from becoming an incubator for terrorism, and the need for continued safe passage for ...

Bloomberg France’s European affairs minister, Clement Beaune, said the European Union (EU) could look to leverage its electricity supplies to the UK in an effort to force Boris Johnson’s government to grant access to British fishing waters. Beaune said that the EU will take action in the next few days to increase the pressure on the UK, which is a ...

Bloomberg China will not impose an anti-sanctions law on Hong Kong for now, local news organisation HK01 reported, a seemingly unusual backtrack from Beijing on a move that had alarmed businesses in the Asian financial hub. The decision to shelve the controversial law in the near term came after executives from Hong Kong and mainland Chinese financial institutions raised their ...

Bloomberg Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu and his government were toppled in a no-confidence vote, intensifying political tensions that have already sent the national currency to a record low. Rivals and former allies joined forces on Tuesday in parliament to sink Citu, a 49-year-old former investment banker who’s been in power for less than a year but fell out with ...

Bloomberg North Korea has labelled Moon Jae-in a meddlesome mediator and reduced to rubble a $15 million liaison office that was one of the South Korean president’s biggest diplomatic achievements. On Monday, however, Kim Jong Un’s regime abruptly restored communication with South Korea via hotlines that Pyongyang had let fall silent for about two months. The move came after Kim’s ...

Bloomberg India’s yearlong farmers’ protests against federal agricultural laws have reached a new flash-point after eight people, including four protesters, were killed in the poll bound northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Farm groups have alleged the deaths occurred after a convoy of cars connected to a junior federal minister ran over angry demonstrators, fired shots and attacked a protest leader ...

Bloomberg The Biden administration will directly engage with Beijing in the coming days to enforce commitments in their trade deal and start a new process to exclude certain products from US tariffs in an effort to help American workers and businesses, senior administration officials said. US Trade Representative Katherine Tai is set to speak to Chinese Vice Premier Liu He ...

Bloomberg Japan’s Fumio Kishida was appointed prime minister by parliament on Monday, and is set to reveal a new cabinet lineup as he seeks to revive support for his ruling party ahead of a general election that could likely come this month. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) used its majority to formally elect Kishida, who will be the second ...

Bloomberg The US called on China to halt its “provocative” pressure on Taiwan after a record number of daily incursions by Chinese warplanes, saying the military actions are destabilising and risk leading to “miscalculations.” “The US commitment to Taiwan is rock solid and contributes to the maintenance of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait and within the region,” State ...