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Biden to meet Xi in bid to avert a full rupture in US-China ties

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 ...

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Melania Trump’s lawyer likely to win Slovenian presidential vote

  Bloomberg Slovenians are voting in a presidential election pitting a human-rights lawyer who has vowed to uphold the rule of law against the ally of an ousted nationalist leader criticized for undermining the country’s democratic values. Natasa Pirc Musar, who once served on the legal team of former US First Lady Melania Trump, had the edge in opinion polls ...

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Biden rallies Yoon, Kishida as North Korean missile threat grows

Bloomberg President Joe Biden met the leaders of Japan and South Korea to rally support in the face of increasingly brazen North Korean missile tests, a show of solidarity a day before he meets Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden met on Sunday with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol during a summit in Phnom ...

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