| Tax pressure | The U.S. is urging the European Union to back off plans to enact a digital tax that Washington believes will discriminate against American companies. Treasury officials told reporters ahead of this week's Group of 20 finance ministers' meeting that the dispute could undermine the drive for a global corporate-tax deal. Timber brouhaha | An EU strategy to boost the protection of its forests has exploded into a fight between one of the bloc's oldest industries and regulators. As Jonathan Tirone explains, timber merchants are rallying to fight a European Commission proposal outlined in a leaked 19-page draft to deploy a suite of high-tech surveillance measures and rules to safeguard woodlands that are "under increasing strain." Stable ties | Chinese Premier Li Keqiang called for deeper cooperation and communication with the U.K. to boost relations even as political tensions simmer. Speaking during a virtual meeting with U.K. business leaders yesterday, Li said China would continue to open up its economy and treat all market players including foreign companies equally. - Regulators in Beijing plan rule changes that would let them block Chinese companies from listing overseas even if the units selling shares are incorporated outside China, closing a loophole long used by the country's tech giants.
 Some countries in Asia are starting to frame Covid-19 as a disease that must be managed rather than stamped out, buoying hopes for freer travel toward the end of the year. Positive signs started to emerge this month, with green shoots beginning to show in airline seat capacity. Best of Bloomberg OpinionTrade tensions | Hong Kong apparel giant Esquel Group said it's suing the U.S. government for what it called the "erroneous" blacklisting of a subsidiary, saying it had been "falsely implicated" in the use of forced labor in China's Xinjiang region. It's one of dozens of companies ensnared in frictions between the U.S. and China over issues that span trade and human rights. Stalled program | Deep in Trump country, where doubts run strong about vaccines and the virus, even personal tales of near-death experiences are only occasionally enough to persuade close family to get their shots. Two Americas have emerged from the growing vaccination gap: In states that Biden won in the last election, most adults are vaccinated and daily life is returning to normal. In other areas, it is a whole different story, as Josh Wingrove reports. What to Watch -
South African police plan to arrest ex-President Jacob Zuma by midnight in the absence of any further instruction from the Constitutional Court. -
Sweden's caretaker prime minister, Stefan Lofven, says he's secured enough support to form a government and avoid snap elections in what's expected to be a knife-edge parliamentary vote today. -
A House Democratic lawmaker warned he'd decline to vote for the legislative package in which party leaders plan to incorporate much of Biden's longer-term economic proposals if it doesn't include immigration reforms. -
A Colombian businessman close to Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is appealing a U.S. court decision to disregard his diplomatic immunity, in a last-ditch effort to block his extradition to American soil over corruption charges. And finally ... Thousands of Vietnamese workers are sleeping in tents on factory floors and inside cavernous halls on metal bunk beds with bamboo mats. As Chia Woon Eunice Chua and Nguyen Dieu Tu Uyen report, it's part of an effort to protect the country's reputation as a vital cog in the global tech supply chain as it battles a resurgence in Covid-19, with staff facing quarantine until they test negative after returning from home.  Hana Micron Vina's factory floor at the Van Trung Industrial Park. Source: Giang Son Dong | 
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