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Singapore’s PM warns against isolating China after Biden visit

Bloomberg Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong urged that China remain integrated in the region, days after US President Joe Biden visited Asia for a series of summits that excluded the world’s second-largest economy. “If US-China relations continue on this path, it will lead to further bifurcation of technology and splitting of supply chains or even worse unintended consequences,” Lee ...

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Gun-right fights move to states after little ‘action’

Bloomberg When Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law measures that would allow adults to carry handguns without a license in 2021, smiling at the dais a seat away from him was the head of the National Rifle Association (NRA). After the shooting deaths of at least 19 children and two adults at an elementary school in Uvalde, the Republican ...

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Cost-of-living gap between UK’s rich, poor hits record

  Bloomberg The gap in inflation experienced by the richest and poorest households in the UK has expanded to its widest level in at least 16 years, according to a report by the Resolution Foundation think-tank. Soaring energy bills as well as higher food costs have sent the UK’s overall inflation rate to a 40-year high of 9%. But headline ...

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