Rebecca Choong Wilkins

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Ruth Carson |Masaki Kondo |Rebecca Choong Wilkins |Diana Li

For decades, Asia’s export powerhouses had a simple financial strategy: Sell goods to the US, then invest the proceeds in American assets. That model is now facing its biggest threat since the 2008 global financial crisis as Donald Trump tries to remake global trade and the US economy — upending the logic behind $7.5 trillion of investments from Asia. Some of the world’s biggest money managers say an unwind is just getting started.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Rebecca Choong Wilkins |Naomi Ng

A boy surveys the remains of their damaged house following cross-border shelling between Pakistani and Indian forces in Salamabad uri village on May 8. (Bloomberg) -- Last week, India and Pakistan saw the worst fighting in half a century — and came close to an all-out war. But the conflict came to an uneasy and sudden halt after President Donald Trump declared the two countries reached a ceasefire.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Jill Disis |Danny Lee |Rebecca Choong Wilkins |April Ma

As we wait to see what “substantial” means, analysis from Bloomberg Economics shows that even a big drop in tariffs from their current sky-high levels would still leave a big hole in bilateral trade. The US-China trade war in Trump’s first term -- when multiple rounds of talks were required to reach a deal -- is a reason to temper expectations.

1 month ago | japantimes.co.jp | Alastair Gale |Swati Pandey |Rebecca Choong Wilkins

For global leaders puzzling over how to negotiate with Donald Trump, the U.S. president’s inaugural pact with the U.K. offers a few clues on how much ground he’s prepared to give. Thursday’s announcement of their trade framework in the Oval Office shows Trump is willing to keen progress even without a final accord and that can buy political credit with the White House. There’s also evidence that American levies can be talked down, but that may not be much more of a template, according to analysts.

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Rebecca Choong Wilkins

Just down the road from Yardbird: Always Joy. (Bloomberg) -- The team behind perennial favorite Yardbird is back with a new izakaya called Always Joy following the closure of the group’s snack bar Ronin. The focus is on using fresh, daily ingredients in a menu of shared plates that are always changing. Like Ronin, there’s an emphasis on contemporary Japanese cuisine, but this latest iteration also has a confident dose of Cantonese influences and a more experimental mix.