Bloomberg In Washington, Vice President Mike Pence’s October 4 speech ripping China was largely lost amid the uproar over the midterms and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation. In Beijing, however, Pence’s address is still reverberating. Some in China’s foreign policy community continue to study it, comparing the rhetoric with Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946, and trying to ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump vowed to end political violence in the US after the arrest of a suspect in a string of bombing attempts aimed at the president’s critics, then used the moment to complain about hostility directed at him. “We must never allow political violence to take root in America,” Trump said at the White House, shortly after the arrest. ...

Bloomberg A German state election is putting Angela Merkel’s chancellorship on the line on Sunday as rarely before. Voters in Hesse, a state that includes the nation’s financial center of Frankfurt, are going to the polls amid public antipathy to the bickering coalition government in Berlin. It’s the last electoral test of Merkel’s standing before a Christian Democratic Union convention ...