By Didi Tang Taiwan is making a longshot push to join the International Monetary Fund Source: Taiwan wants to join the IMF to get financial protection from China Category: Europe, World
By Igor Patrick After US Trade Representative Katherine Tai suggests Brasilia ‘weigh the risks’, Chinese embassy calls her remarks ‘disrespectful’. Source: China assails US trade official for warning Brazil about joining belt and road plan
By Laura Zhou Geostrategic importance and criticality to global trade cited amid ‘active’ cooperation this year between Beijing and Moscow in Arctic Ocean. Source: US coastguard eyes China, Russia in making Indo-Pacific ‘a top regional priority’