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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and South Korean Premier Yoon launched diplomatic and security dialogue and agreed to resume free trade negotiations.Chinese Premier Li Qiang and host South Korean President Yun Seok-yeo launched diplomatic and security dialogue on the eve of a tripartite summit with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio and agreed to resume talks on a free trade agreement. Monday’s meeting between the three leaders will be the first three-way talks in more than four years, as tensions between the U.S. and China intensify and South Korea and Japan seek to repair ties soured by historical issues and deepen their…

INDIANAPOLIS — During a morning event operations briefing in the Indianapolis Motor Speedway media center, track president Doug Boles told reporters that track and race officials were monitoring severe storms that could involve lightning and could affect the start of Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.Here’s what you need to know from Bolles’ morning update.Where is the storm now?As of 6:20 a.m. ET, the first of two waves of storms forecast to hit the IMS was near St. Louis. Meteorologists tracking the storm said it could move in between noon and 1 p.m. Sunday, and could bring some light rain before the full…

Stay up to date with free updatesJust sign up Geopolitics myFT Digest – delivered straight to your inbox.China has warned South Korea not to politicize economic issues after the two countries agreed to resume trade talks ahead of their first three-way summit in nearly five years.Chinese Premier Li Qiang, President Xi Jinping’s top adviser, met South Korean President Yun Seok-yeo in Seoul on Sunday. Beijing is pushing back against tougher U.S. restrictions on semiconductor sales to Chinese companies and President Joe Biden’s hike in tariffs on Chinese clean technology exports. Japan and South Korea are at the heart of U.S.…

It is commonly acknowledged that the pace of our economy and cultural life is characterized by increasing expectations of acceleration and instant gratification, whether in the form of gig work and just-in-time supply chains, hot takes and digital streaming. This is what Anna Kornbluh calls Immediacy, or the Capitalist Style That Came Too Late She shows how these two trends, economic and cultural, are interrelated and reinforcing, and offers a new way of thinking about how our obsession with immediacy is fatally distorting our political life. Cover of Anna Kornbluh’s book “Immediacy: Or the Art of Capitalism” Immediacy, or the…

ALLAH/JEHANABAD: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader JP Nadda on Sunday lauded his party for building a “mazboot (strong)” government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which has given the country the ability to penetrate the Pakistan border and destroy terrorist hideouts.In contrast, the Congress-led UPA government, which was polluted in 2014, was “majboor, kamzor aur apang (powerless, weak and crippled)”, the former Union Minister charged.Addressing back-to-back election rallies in Arar and Jehanabad constituencies in Bihar, Nadda mocked the UPA for “sending papers to Pakistan at a time when the country is reeling from terror attacks backed from across the border”.”When Modi…

Get your free copy of Editor’s DigestFT editor Roula Khalaf picks her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Taiwan has been plunged into domestic political turmoil less than a week after new President Lai Ching-te took office amid increasing military pressure from China.Voting is due to continue on Tuesday as the opposition tries to force through a major expansion of parliament’s powers that would severely constrain the president’s powers. Tens of thousands of people, mostly young supporters of Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party, protested against the move on Friday.The standoff came as China’s military conducted a second day of drills around Taiwan…

A U.S. congressional delegation arrived in Taiwan just days after China began military exercises around the island. This week in Beijing 2 Day War Game,surround Taiwan After Taiwan’s new constitution came into effect, China sent warships and fighter jets as “punishment” for “acts of separatism.” President William Lai Ching Teh. It also vowed to intensify countermeasures until “complete unification” was achieved.The arrival of the US congressional delegation comes at a time of tension in relations between China and Taiwan and is likely to draw condemnation from Beijing. For a more accessible video player, use Chrome browser 0:57 Why are tensions…

Doing LessJackie Parker Photography//Getty ImagesHagen says this may be a difficult concept to embrace, at least for those who prefer a more manicured landscape, but try to at least make a small part of your land more natural, more perfectly landscaped. For example, Hagen plants oak saplings on the edge of his garden and mows around the nesting areas of solitary bees. You could also mow less frequently or turn a small section of your lawn into a grass garden.Reduce or eliminate the use of pesticidesVitaly Marchenko//Getty ImagesThis is probably one of the most important things we can do, Goss…

Uganda first introduced gender quotas in elections in 1989, and has since increased the proportion of women in the Ugandan parliament to 34%. Currently, there are 189 women in the 557-seat parliament. However, female politicians in Uganda remain underrepresented, constantly battling stereotypes that maintain the male-dominated status quo in politics, and voters who have become accustomed to the belief that because seats are reserved for women, they should not take part in contests for vacant seats. One reason for this continued marginalization is that the country’s political parties have done little to empower women, but they are the first hurdle…

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Kean Luan, chief information security officer at Google parent Alphabet, raised the question of “why do we need AGI” when it comes to artificial general intelligence, an AI system that can match or exceed human intelligence in a wide range of situations. Determining the purpose of AGI and its contribution to humanity is a “broader dialogue that hasn’t really taken place before at a global level,” Luan said at a conference on Human Flourishing and Technology held at the headquarters of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in Rome on May 23. Academics, technology experts and business…