Bloomberg Vice President Kamala Harris tried to persuade Asian nations that the US is their most valuable economic partner in a speech in Bangkok on Friday, with the Biden administration wary of China’s inroads in the region. Harris sought to allay doubts about the US commitment to the region among its leaders, after a turbulent period that saw former President ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida asserted their desire to improve relations and agreed to reopen lines of communication in the first meeting of the leaders of Asia’s two largest economies in three years. Xi expressed a willingness to work with Japan to maintain a stable relationship at their summit Thursday on the sidelines of ...

  Bloomberg Ukraine is approaching the winter months with blackouts spreading across the country, as Russia’s missile campaign pummels power stations, grid networks and other civilian facilities. More than 10 million Ukrainians —about a quarter of the pre-war population — are without electricity, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his overnight address Thursday, as the first snow fell in the capital ...