- Bank of China report says more than 90 per cent of domestic and foreign firms believe ‘strongly’ using the yuan could steady trade within the Asia-Pacific region as Beijing presses on to increase global use for the currency.
- One Chinese analyst said the PLA had ‘no choice’ but to act after a close encounter between two warships that the US attacked as ‘unsafe and unprofessional’
- Passengers assured rail operations safe and unaffected but measures will be put in place to ease problem.
- Fraser expressed ‘full confidence in China’s economic and financial development’ and pledged to expand business in the country, the National Administration of Financial Regulation said.
- The result of Joe Biden and Democrats negotiating with Republicans is an appalling act of political surrender and an abandonment of progressive principles. Worse, bargaining away their leverage over a divided opposition did nothing to prevent a similar crisis in the future.