US Secretary of State will host Partners in the Blue Pacific nations on Thursday, that has been set up to deal with climate change, and China's push for strategic footholds in the region

China bought a record 8.54 million tonnes of Russian coal last month to help deal with extreme hot weather, plus 15.8 million tonnes of thermal coal from Indonesia.

US President has gone beyond longstanding US policy on Taiwan, and been clearer about committing US troops to the defend the island.

"Our relations with these countries will be moved to a much different position with this step. Of course [membership], that's the target," Turkey president Tayyip Erdogan said.

Sri Lanka will upgrade its FTA with India to a comprehensive economic partnership, Wickremesinghe said. IMF deal is done but bilateral creditors and private debt still needs to be restructured

Xi was absent from group photos on Thursday when the leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan, went for dinner

US President issued an order on Thursday directing the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US to focus on microelectronics, artificial intelligence, biotech and quantum computing.

Xi Jinping met Vladimir Putin in Samarkand where they are attending a summit of The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

The chief operating officer of TikTok declined to tell US lawmakers on Wednesday "that the short-form video app will cut off flows of US user data to China"

Economy Minister Robert Habeck, of the Greens, said on Tuesday he was leaning towards not allowing the deal, which would give China a stake in critical German infrastructure.

The Bank of Japan conducted a rate check on Wednesday, in possible preparation for currency intervention, Nikkei reported. The yen has falled around 20% so far this year.

The US is considering sanctions against China to try to deter it from invading Taiwan, while Taipei has lobbied the European Union to do the same