Monthly surveys of Chinese factory managers showed manufacturing improving somewhat in June after President Donald Trump delayed imposing higher tariffs, but overall activity was still contracting.

On Friday, Donald Trump suddenly called off trade discussions with Canada over the tax on US tech firms.

It’s been years since Hong Kong’s mass arrests of activists devastated its pro-democracy activism. But a crackdown on dissent in the semi-autonomous Chinese city is still expanding, hitting restaurants, bookstores and other small businesses.

China has reopened its market to seafood from Japan after a nearly two-year ban over the discharge of slightly radioactive wastewater from the tsunami-destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant.