Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin pledged to bolster ties as Moscow stages its biggest military exercises since the height of the Cold War with Chinese participation. Both face pressure from the administration of US President Donald Trump. “We have a relationship of trust in the sphere of politics, security and defense,” Putin told Xi ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel can’t seem to escape the political fallout from her open-borders refugee policy. Unresolved tension over migration in her government may come to a head again this week in a clash between the chancellor and her domestic intelligence chief, who defied Merkel by suggesting that a video of far-right unrest in eastern Germany that she described ...

Bloomberg The White House delivered a whipsaw message to North Korea, announcing it’s ready to start planning a second meeting with Kim Jong-un just hours after President Donald Trump’s top national security adviser said nuclear talks were stalled. Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters that Trump had received “a very warm, very positive letter” from Kim seeking a follow-up ...