Politics

Bloomberg President Donald Trump toured parts of Beijing on Wednesday after arriving for a high-stakes state visit where he’ll look for wins from Xi Jinping on everything from the US’s massive trade deficit to reining in North Korea. The third leg of Trump’s five-nation Asia tour comes after stops in Tokyo and Seoul. Addressing South Korea’s parliament earlier on Wednesday ...

Bloomberg Russia said North Korea is still two to three years from being able to carry out a long-range strike on the US, offering diplomacy a chance to halt the secretive Communist state’s nuclear and missile programs. “Unless we can find a political solution,” it’s “inevitable” that Kim Jong Un’s regime will have intercontinental ballistic missiles within that time, Mikhail ...

Bloomberg Czech President Milos Zeman is in the lead over a wide pool of contestants vying for the country’s highest office in a January vote. Eighteen candidates have registered, the Interior Ministry, which has until Nov. 24 to review applications, said on its website. The latest CVVM poll showed that Zeman, 73, would win the Jan. 12-13 first round with ...

Bloomberg Catalan separatists failed to heal their divisions in time to establish a com- mon front for December’s election, boosting Spain’s chances of restoring some normality to the rebel region. The main parties in favour of independence are set to run on separate platforms December 21 after Esquerra Republicana ruled out an alliance less than two hours before the midnight ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron is keeping his hand in Chancellor Angel Merkel’s efforts to form a new German coalition. His Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is spending Wednesday in Berlin, meeting with key players in Merkel’s coalition talks. Le Maire is seeing both Christian Lindner, the head of the Free Democratic Party, and Cem Ozdemir, of the Greens — ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump said that North Korea should “come to the table” and make a deal on its missile and nuclear programs. Speaking next to South Korean President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on Tuesday, Trump said he saw some progress in regards to North Korea, but declined to comment on holding direct talks with Pyongyang. He added that ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump touches down in Beijing on Wednesday seeking immediate wins for the world’s-biggest economy. His host, President Xi Jinping, is playing a longer game. Xi has mapped out a two stage blueprint: first, to entrench China’s manufacturing might by 2025 through a shift up the technology chain to high value-add products. Second, as laid out last month, ...

Bloomberg A Kenyan politician and two activists lodged separate petitions at the Supreme Court seeking the annulment of results from last month’s presidential-election rerun, arguing the vote was illegal and wasn’t free and fair. Harun Mwau, a former lawmaker, filed a petition challenging the validity of the vote result, Judiciary spokeswoman Lilian Mueni said by phone from the capital, Nairobi. ...

Bloomberg Poland’s Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, seeking to move past reports that she may soon be dismissed, met ruling-party leader and potential successor Jaroslaw Kaczynski to discuss plans for a ministerial shakeup in her cabinet. The changes envisage reorganization of some ministries and personnel changes, government spokesman Rafal Bochenek told PAP news agency after the late on Monday meeting. The ...

Bloomberg Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe fired a vice president who his wife Grace accused of plotting against her husband for the second time in three years, highlighting the first lady’s rise to the pinnacle of power in the southern African nation. The dramatic dismissal of Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday came a day after Grace Mugabe publicly accused the former spy ...