Politics

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping took a veiled swipe at the US in a strongly worded speech, saying no country should “be allowed to do whatever it likes and be the hegemon, bully or boss of the world.” Pushing for developing countries to have a greater role in world affairs, Xi said the United Nations could be “more balanced” and ...

Bloomberg Boris Johnson told Britons to work from home when possible and ordered restaurants to close early as he sought to stamp out a resurgence of coronavirus in the weeks ahead. Under the new measures for England, which are likely to last six months, face coverings will become mandatory for passengers travelling in taxis and workers in the hospitality and ...

Bloomberg Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte saw off a challenge from opposition rival Matteo Salvini in local elections, strengthening the premier’s grip on his quarrelsome coalition ahead of negotiations over the European Union’s recovery fund. Parties in Conte’s year-old alliance, led by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the center-left Democratic Party, held on to three regions including the leftist ...

Bloomberg Tropical Storm Beta was flooding southeastern Texas as it grinds along the coast, pounding it with heavy rain before meandering toward Louisiana. Beta was expected to stall inland over Texas on Tuesday and then move slowly northeastwards, according to an advisory from the National Hurricane Center at 5 am New York time. The storm was about 35 miles (56 ...

Bloomberg India’s lower house of parliament approved a set of long overdue labour legislations that aim to attract investment and make it easier for companies to do business in the South Asian nation. The new bills include the industrial relations code that will allow companies with as many as 300 workers to fire them without seeking prior government approval, a ...

Bloomberg China is instituting a mass labour system in Tibet similar to the one in neighboring Xinjiang, the Jamestown Foundation said, despite intensifying global scrutiny of Beijing’s policies toward ethnic minorities. Tibet has since last year introduced policies promoting “the systematic, centralised, and large-scale training and transfer of ‘rural surplus labourers’” to other parts of Tibet and other regions, the ...

Bloomberg China is ratcheting up the risk of military confrontation in the Taiwan Strait, as Beijing seeks to deter Taipei from continuing to deepen ties with the US and other like-minded democracies. People’s Liberation Army (PLA) aircraft repeatedly breached the median line between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland last week, in the latest of a series of military exercises in ...

Bloomberg The Philippines’ top diplomat said the country would not follow China’s stance of keeping Western powers — including the US — out of the disputed South China Sea. The South China Sea Code of Conduct that Southeast Asian nations are crafting with Beijing won’t lead to western countries’ exclusion from the waters, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin said on ...

Bloomberg Mali’s transition committee appointed retired army Colonel Bah N’Daw as the nation’s interim leader, a month after seizing power in a military coup. Junta leader Assimi Goita will assume the role of vice president, the National Committee for the Salvation of the People said in a statement on its Facebook page on Monday. N’Daw, a former defense minister, will ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump’s plans to name a replacement for Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this week offer Joe Biden the chance to galvanise newly energized Democrats, while providing the president a fresh battle in a culture war he’s waged for four years. Early reaction to Ginsburg’s death suggests Biden stands to gain more politically from the sudden vacancy, as ...