Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping offered personal assurances that he wouldn’t use protests in Hong Kong as an excuse to increase Beijing’s control over the city, Chief Executive Carrie Lam said, as she used a World Economic Forum visit to try and reassure global investors. Speaking to Bloomberg Television in Davos, Lam pushed back against protesters who say China is ...

Bloomberg Italy’s Luigi Di Maio resigned as leader of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, as his fading populist party faced the prospect of being thrashed in regional elections this weekend. The 33-year-old Di Maio told a meeting of Five Star ministers that he’s stepping down from his party job, but plans to stay on as foreign minister at a meeting ...

Bloomberg Donald Trump has kicked off the 2020 election year with a string of key foreign policy and economic wins that his campaign hopes will overshadow — and outlast — the political fallout from his historic impeachment. As the Senate began his impeachment trial in Washington, Trump tried to pull the spotlight to Davos, Switzerland, where he touted his record ...