Bloomberg Japan won’t send any government representatives to the Beijing Winter Olympics, effectively throwing its support behind the US-led diplomatic boycott of the games that start in February. Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno announced that Japan would dispatch three top members of the teams that helped organize this year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. He added the government had reached ...

  Bloomberg Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said China has been “playing” Western states against each other and that democracies should present a “united front” in response. “There’s been a bit of competition amongst friends because we’re capitalist democracies trying to do well, especially given the extraordinary economic opportunity of the rise in the Chinese middle class,” Trudeau said in ...

  Bloomberg Britain’s Labour Party has an eight-point lead over Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives, according to a poll commissioned by the Sunday Times. The survey of almost 25,000 people, with a breakdown of each constituency, found Labour with enough support to win a general election with 338 seats to the Conservatives’ 237, enough for a 26-seat Labour majority, the ...