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On today's podcast:

(1) The European Union is striking a more assertive approach to China as it heads into two days of negotiations in Beijing aimed at avoiding an economically damaging trade war.

(2) Secretary of State Marco Rubio used a dramatic backdrop in Greece to remind the world of the Trump administration’s focus on the “unapologetic” pursuit of power and to issue another warning to Europe about the dangers of Western decline.

(3) China managed to get a hold of parts from an F-35 stealth fighter jet after a United Parcel Service Inc. employee missed an email warning not to route the shipment through Hong Kong, according to a person briefed on the incident.

(4) Oil gained after a report that the White House asked the Pentagon to draw up strike options against Iran that could be executed before the midterm elections, and as a hurricane forced some US output to shut.

(5) Samsung Electronics reported a nearly nine-fold rise in quarterly operating profit, though that was still shy of sky-high expectations elevated by relentless spending on AI infrastructure.

(6) Ahead of laying out a platform of tax cuts aimed at affluent Britons at her party’s annual convention, opposition leader Kemi Badenoch told journalists: “We are going back to the authentic Conservative Party that people knew and loved.”

(7) President Donald Trump is seeking approval from local officials in Florida to designate his West Palm Beach golf course into a permanently-designated presidential retreat that would host summits, world leaders and current and former occupants of the White House.

(8) Sandra Ortega, Spain’s richest woman is so intensely private and lives such an ordinary life that investors are wondering what role she might play in the business her parents started — now the world’s biggest fashion retailer.

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