US President Donald Trump has wrapped up a whirlwind weekend of diplomacy in Southeast Asia with a series of headline-grabbing trade and peace agreements before departing Monday for Japan—the next leg of his three-nation tour that will culminate in a closely watched meeting with China’s GS Xi Jinping in Seoul this Thursday. Meanwhile, Argentina’s midterm elections have delivered a decisive mandate for President Javier Milei and his pro-market revolution. His LLA party secured roughly 41 percent of the national vote—well ahead of the Peronist opposition’s 32 percent—granting the libertarian leader a durable foothold in Congress to advance his sweeping deregulation and fiscal-austerity agenda. Subscribe for full analysis on global markets, policy shifts, and economic trends. 00:00 Introduction 00:15 Flurry of Deals in Southeast Asia04:49 Milei’s Midterm Victory Reshapes Argentina’s Economic Outlook08:13 Europe’s China Problem
