Bloomberg The US Secretary of State and foreign ministers of the UK, Canada and Australia expressed their “serious concern” about the arrest of 55 politicians and activists in Hong Kong, the governments said in a joint statement. Hong Kong’s National Security Law, under which the arrests were made, is a breach of the Sino-British Joint Declaration and undermines the “one ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s top defense official said staying out of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) remains the best security option for the country, even with an increasingly assertive Russia. A Swedish application for Nato membership would “affect the entire security policy architecture in our part of Europe,” Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist said in an interview in Stockholm. “Above all, it puts ...

Bloomberg Philippines House Speaker Lord Allan Velasco renewed a proposal to amend the country’s Constitution by lifting restrictive economic provisions to attract more foreign investments. A resolution from the Senate and the House of Representatives seeks to insert the phrase “unless otherwise provided by law” to several sections of the Constitution involving national patrimony and economy; education, science and technology; ...