Bloomberg India says at least 20 of its soldiers have died in a “violent” clash with Chinese troops at a section along their unmarked border high in the Himalayas, in the first fatalities resulting from skirmishes in the region in four decades. There were “casualties on both sides,” Indian army spokesman Col Aman Anand said in New Delhi, adding that ...

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 ...