Bloomberg The US shouldn’t believe that ever higher tariffs can induce China’s government to capitulate to American demands in the escalating trade dispute between the world’s biggest economies, according to Chinese Commerce Minister Zhong Shan. “There is a view in the US that so long as the US keeps increasing tariffs, China will back down,” Zhong said in a written ...

Bloomberg Pakistan’s stocks and bonds rose and the rupee fell after the government said it would seek the nation’s thirteenth International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout since the late 1980s in a bid to stabilise the economy and plug dwindling finances. The South Asia nation’s key stock measure snapped six days of losses to advance as much as 3%, the most ...

Bloomberg Malaysia will devise new taxes soon to shore up a state budget that’s been constrained by debt and changes to the consumption levy, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said. The government may also have to sell assets to raise money to pay “huge debt,” he said at a forum in Kuala Lumpur, adding that he believes foreign investment will still ...