Bloomberg National Security Adviser John Bolton has left for Japan and South Korea as the US faces a range of issues in the region from trade tensions between its two allies to North Korea’s threat to scrap nuclear talks. Bolton “departed for Japan and South Korea to continue conversations with critical allies and friends,” Garrett Marquis, spokesman for the National ...

Bloomberg Taiwan’s presidential election next year will be a test of its democracy and value system, President Tsai Ing-wen said at the end of a US trip that drew rebuke from China. “Voters in Taiwan will be focussed on the future of our country, especially whether we can keep our democratic and freedom way of life,” she said at a ...

Bloomberg China issued a defense of its policies in the Xinjiang region where its detention of ethnic Uighurs has drawn criticism from the US and other western nations. Xinjiang is an “inseparable part” of China, and internal and external hostile forces including separatists, religious extremists and terrorists are distorting history and facts to split the country apart, the official Xinhua ...