| China pitch, 2.0 | President Donald Trump is reviving his 2016 campaign playbook on attacking China, but running as the incumbent means defending a record of limited success in rewriting the economic relationship with Beijing. As Jenny Leonard reports, much of what the Trump team has laid out sounds like campaign promises made four years ago. Campaign 2020 There are 53 days until the election. Here's the latest on the race for control of the White House and Congress. Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, will signal today that their paths to the White House run through Pennsylvania, as both commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks near the town of Shanksville, where one of the hijacked planes crashed in 2001. Other developments: Sign up to receive daily election updates as a direct mobile notification on Twitter. Simply click on this link and like the tweet. Talks fray | The British government rebuffed a European Union request to scrap a plan to re-write their divorce accord after the bloc gave a three-week ultimatum to do so and threatened legal action. The dispute risks jeopardizing efforts to secure a trade deal by Dec. 31 — if there's no agreement by then it will trigger tariffs and snarl commerce with extra paperwork at the border. - The U.K. secured a free-trade agreement with Japan, its first major post-Brexit accord.
- Britain recorded strong economic growth in July as virus restrictions eased but has clawed back little more than half of output lost during the lockdown.
High stakes | India and China pledged to de-escalate tensions along their disputed Himalayan border after their foreign ministers met yesterday for the first time since May, when the stand-off began. The nations have been increasing troop strength along the 3,488-kilometer Line of Actual Control for months and this week the first shots were fired since 1975 — an indication multiple rounds of talks have done little to lower the temperature. Election strategy | With opposition leader Alexey Navalny hit by a near-fatal poisoning, President Vladimir Putin faces a key test of support in Russian regional elections starting today. The three-day ballot, a prelude to 2021 parliamentary elections, is also a showcase for a "smart voting" campaign promoted by Navalny before he fell ill. It encourages voters in individual areas to back the politician most likely to defeat the ruling United Russia party's candidate.  Corruption probe | Lawmakers in Peru will vote today on whether to start impeachment proceedings against President Martin Vizcarra after the release of tapes of him discussing a minor graft case. Prosecutors are investigating allegations that a singer used contacts in the presidential palace to obtain contracts worth about $50,000, despite lacking experience. What to Watch - Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is heading to the Qatari capital, Doha, for the start of peace talks between Afghan government officials and Taliban leaders tomorrow.
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Less than a week after Serbia agreed to move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem by July as part of a deal with Kosovo brokered by Trump, the Balkan nation's president has cast doubts on the plan. -
French President Emmanuel Macron is meeting his government today to plan how to curb a surge in coronavirus infections — almost 10,000 new cases yesterday — without harming a fragile economic rebound. - EU finance ministers will discuss the bloc's landmark recovery fund and how to pay off joint debt today during their first meeting in person in seven months.
Pop quiz, readers (no cheating!). Which Disney live-action remake is under pressure for filming in a sensitive region? Send your answer to balancepower@bloomberg.net. And finally ... The newest Covid-19 vaccine candidate to start human testing is the first where volunteers won't get a painful injection. Instead, they'll receive a spray through the nose. The Chinese-made vaccine joins about 35 other candidates currently in human testing, as the global race to be first with an effective weapon against the deadly pathogen intensifies. Some scientists hope a vaccine that gets sprayed through the nose may have a better chance of stopping the spread of the virus through respiratory tracts.  A woman receives an H1N1 flu nasal spray vaccination in December 2009 in San Francisco. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images North America | 
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