Bloomberg As Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam fights to survive, she’s taking heat from another government whose population is similarly skeptical of Beijing: Taiwan, an island claimed by China. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen has strongly supported the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators who’ve opposed Lam’s “evil bill” to allow extraditions from Hong Kong to the mainland for the first time. ...

Bloomberg Slovakia’s former president launched a political party to capitalize on public discontent with the ruling leftists who are struggling to contain the fallout from a journalist’s murder before the 2020 election. Anti-government sentiment has been rising in the ex-communist European Union nation for over a year since the killing of an investigative reporter exposed links between politicians, law enforcement ...

Bloomberg Ukraine is warning European nations to prepare for a gas crisis amid skepticism it will agree on a new transit contract with Russia before the current deal expires. It’s “highly probable” that a new accord won’t be concluded by January 1, when the current agreement ends, according to Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister Olena Zerkal. That echoes skepticism by the ...