Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he plans to cut the number of US troops stationed in Germany to 25,000, until Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government increases defense spending. “Germany’s delinquent. They’ve been delinquent for years,” he told reporters at the White House in the first official confirmation of a move that was reported earlier this month. “They owe NATO billions of ...

Bloomberg Australian foreign minister Marise Payne criticised China for creating “disinformation” during the coronavirus pandemic, saying it “will cost lives.” “It is troubling that some countries are using the pandemic to undermine liberal democracy to promote their own more authoritarian models,” Payne said in a speech in Canberra on Tuesday. She cited a European Union report that said foreign actors ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo was expected to travel to Hawaii on Tuesday for meetings with his Chinese counterpart, according to two people familiar with the plans, as tensions between the countries run high over trade, coronavirus, the future of Hong Kong and other issues. Secrecy around the planned encounter between Pompeo and Yang Jiechi, the ruling Communist Party’s ...