Canada and India expel diplomats over homicide of Sikh activist

In immediately’s e-newsletter:

• A brand new low for India-Canada relations

• China launches giant army drills close to Taiwan

• How Trump allies are sowing election doubts

Good morning. Canada has expelled six Indian diplomats, alleging they had been concerned in “clandestine actions” over the homicide of a Sikh activist.

A Canadian authorities official mentioned Indian excessive commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma and 5 different diplomats had been knowledgeable that they had been “persona non-grata”. India responded by kicking out six Canadian diplomats together with Stewart Wheeler, Ottawa’s most senior remaining envoy.

Canadian officers are probing what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has claimed had been “credible allegations” of Indian authorities involvement within the homicide of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh separatist who was shot useless in a suburb of Vancouver in June 2023.

Trudeau mentioned yesterday that the actions included clandestine info gathering, coercive behaviour focusing on south Asian Canadians and involvement in additional than a dozen threatening and violent acts, together with homicide.

New Delhi referred to as the expulsions “fully unacceptable”, saying that it reserved the suitable to take “additional steps” in response to what it referred to as “the Trudeau authorities’s help for extremism, violence and separatism towards India”.

Right here’s extra on the diplomatic dispute over Nijjar’s killing — and a brand new low for India-Canada relations.

And right here’s what else I’m retaining tabs on immediately:

• Financial information: South Korea and Indonesia report September commerce information. Japan reviews revised industrial manufacturing and retail gross sales for August.

• Tokyo Metro IPO: The subway operator is predicted to announce the ultimate pricing of its preliminary public providing forward of a Tokyo Inventory Change itemizing on October 23.

• Shanghai Cooperation Organisation: The China-led bloc begins a summit in Islamabad. Li Qiang will attend, the primary Chinese language premier to go to Pakistan in additional than a decade. (Reuters)

5 extra high tales

1. China deployed a file variety of warplanes into airspace near Taiwan as a part of a wider army train, confirming fears that Beijing would ratchet up tensions days after Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te asserted his nation’s sovereignty in a Nationwide Day speech. Taiwan mentioned 125 army plane had been deployed within the Folks’s Liberation Military train yesterday.

2. Chinese language carmakers mentioned they weren’t looking for to “overthrow” Europe’s legacy producers with cheaper electrical autos. On the Paris Motor Present, corporations together with Xpeng and GAC pledged their long-term commitments to the European market amid a commerce struggle between Brussels and Beijing.

3. A suspected act of sabotage practically precipitated a German aircraft to crash earlier this yr, one of many nation’s spy chiefs has mentioned as he warned of a dramatic improve in “aggressive behaviour” by Russian brokers. Thomas Haldenwang mentioned if a bundle that caught hearth at a logistics centre in Leipzig had ignited on a flight, “it will have resulted in a crash”.

4. Shares in Nvidia closed at a recent file yesterday, passing the earlier peak that they had hit in July. Renewed confidence a couple of mushy touchdown for the US economic system has pushed a rebound in large know-how shares for the reason that Federal Reserve started chopping rates of interest final month.

5. The 2024 Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to teachers Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James Robinson for his or her work on wealth disparities between nations. The trio’s analysis highlights that establishments arrange throughout colonisation have had an enduring influence on financial outcomes within the international locations affected.

The Large Learn

Since 2020, the declare that widespread voter fraud led to Donald Trump’s loss — allegations debunked and dismissed in courtroom — has metastasised into an array of conspiracy theories casting doubt on the US election system. Now, organised, well-funded efforts by rightwing organisations are setting the stage for controversy if this yr’s outcomes are as tight as forecast.

We’re additionally studying . . . 

Chart of the day

Low-cost pure gasoline is spurring Chinese language truckers to modify to rigs powered by the gas, a development that analysts mentioned had helped thrust China previous peak diesel demand and moved it nearer to reaching peak oil.

Take a break from the information

What does it take to be thought of super-rich? $10mn? $30mn? $100mn? Ask 10 completely different wealth business professionals and you’ll get 10 completely different solutions. What they do agree on, nevertheless, is that the speedy rise in billionaires has disrupted what it means to be a part of the moneyed elite.

Further contributions from Gordon Smith and Camille De Guzman