- Emmanuel Macron, the French president, said that France’s position toward Taiwan remained unchanged, but he stood by comments he had made on the island’s security.
- Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, said negotiations on Israel’s divisive plan to overhaul the judiciary were gaining momentum and that consensus was possible.
- Young people in China are trading high-pressure, prestigious white-collar jobs for manual labor.
- Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, plans to meet with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, tomorrow. He will share his own plan for a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
 Qilai Shen for The New York Times |
| The German firms Volkswagen and BASF are broadening their Chinese investments. Consumer prices in the U.S. climbed 5 percent in the year through last month — the slowest rate in nearly two years. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump said he would continue his presidential bid even if convicted of a crime. |
