Politics

  Bloomberg South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte discussed ways to enhance economic security ties, seeking cooperation in the chip industry after US export curbs to China rattled the global semiconductor market. The two “underscored the significance of further strengthening existing collaboration between the two countries’ semiconductor industries and expressed their intention to support ...

Bloomberg Nato and Poland’s leaders said there is no indication that a missile that struck Polish territory late Tuesday was an intentional Russian attack as governments in the military alliance moved to defuse the incident. “Our preliminary analysis suggests that the incident was likely caused by a Ukrainian air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian cruise missile ...

Bloomberg A barrage of missile attacks targeted Kyiv and other locations across Ukraine, hitting civilians and critical infrastructure in what authorities called the broadest such assault since Russia invaded the country in February. At least one person was killed as residential buildings were struck in Kyiv, with strikes cutting the power supply to roughly half of the capital’s residents, Mayor ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden had a brief, unannounced meeting Tuesday with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The two men met on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia. Turkish media posted pictures of them together on Twitter, but the White House didn’t announce the meeting in advance and US journalists accompanying Biden to the G-20 weren’t ...

Bloomberg Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hailed a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday as a move toward normalizing ties that have spiraled in recent years. “This was another important step towards the stabilization of the Australia-China relationship,” Albanese said in a statement after meeting Xi in Bali on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit for ...

Bloomberg Russia is expected to agree to extend a United Nations-brokered deal allowing exports of Ukrainian grain and other farm products from the Black Sea, ensuring a vital flow of foodstuffs to the world market. Russia is likely to allow the deal to renew after its Nov. 19 expiration, according to four people familiar with the situation, all of whom ...

  Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping called for accelerating negotiations on a trade deal and boosting cooperation in high-tech manufacturing in a meeting with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, the first summit between leaders of the two countries in about three years. Xi told Yoon that China and South Korea should work together to maintain the global free-trade system ...

  Bloomberg Joe Biden and Xi Jinping agreed to a series of goodwill gestures intended to improve ties between their countries after the first in-person meeting between the leaders of the US and China since the pandemic began. The two men met for about three hours on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, greeting each ...

  Bloomberg Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan said he wants to have good relations with the US, a country that he’s blamed for months of colluding with his successor to oust him from office in April. “We want good relations with China, Russia and the US,” Khan told his supporters in a video-taped address as they marched to the ...

Bloomberg The US and China disagree on so many things, across so many spheres, that other world leaders are increasingly warning of a deeper rupture that could split the global economy. With the stakes rarely higher, President Joe Biden heads to Bali, Indonesia, for his first in-person meeting with China’s Xi Jinping since taking office last year with promises to ...