Bloomberg Honda Motor Co will recall more than 200,000 cars made in China, citing issues with brake pedal sensors that could make it harder to stop. The Japanese carmaker will recall 105,608 hybrids made between October 2018 and September 2020 at its manufacturing venture with Dongfeng Motor Group Co, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation said in a statement. ...

  Bloomberg South Korea put out its first strategy report for the Indo-Pacific region, which hardly mentions China and signals Seoul is seeking a cautious balance between its biggest trade partner Beijing and main military ally, the US. The 43-page document titled the “Strategy for a Free, Peaceful, and Prosperous Indo-Pacific Region,” issued a single paragraph about relations with China. ...

Bloomberg Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed deepening ties between their countries in talks, despite signs of Beijing’s impatience over the wider political and economic impact of Russia’s struggling invasion of Ukraine. Russia-China ties are the “best in history” and their strategic partnership is a “stabilising factor” amid rising geopolitical tensions, the Russian president said in the video ...