Bloomberg American naval vessels transited through the Taiwan Strait for the second straight month, highlighting the US’s strategic rivalry with China as Taiwanese presidential hopeful and Foxconn founder Terry Gou called for the island to adopt high-tech defense mechanisms. The destroyers USS Stethem and USS William P Lawrence conducted a transit through the waters on Monday, US Seventh Fleet public ...

Bloomberg Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Donald Trump, called for more sanctions on Russia and criticised presidential adviser Jared Kushner’s statements downplaying the significance of that country’s interference in the 2016 election. “I like Jared a lot, but he’s leaving out a big detail,” Graham said on CBS, noting that Russia hacked into the emails of Democratic ...

Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo led his challenger by about 12 percentage points midway through an official tally of votes cast in the election, weakening his rival’s claim of victory. Widodo, known as Jokowi, secured 56.2 percent of the votes, compared to 43.8 percent for challenger Prabowo Subianto with ballots from 52 percent of the polling stations tallied, according to ...