China’s exports rose 36.3% in dollar terms in September and the monthly trade surplus reached $133.5 billion, while producer prices climbed 5.0% on fuel costs. Our tables set out the trade and price data and the nine-month totals.

The IMF’s new World Economic Outlook, released in Bangkok, raised forecasts for India, the ASEAN-5 and South Korea and trimmed China’s. Our table brings together the Asian numbers and what the Fund says could go wrong.

India beat West Indies in Indore, the INDIA bloc marches to the Supreme Court, Tim Cook is back in China, Japan’s push on the UN “enemy state” clauses strains ties with Beijing, the IMF and World Bank meet in Bangkok, haze returns in Malaysia and a flash flood hits Nepal.

On his first China trip since handing over as Apple CEO, Tim Cook told Guangdong’s governor that Apple is willing to expand in the province. Our table compares China’s and India’s shares of iPhone production, which have shifted by nine points in a year.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pressing to delete the World War II “enemy state” clauses from the UN Charter, and Kyodo says the campaign may deepen the rift with China. We explain what the clauses say, why they survive, and why any deletion needs China’s consent.

Donald Trump pressed Xi Jinping in Washington last month to lift China’s export curbs on Japan and talk to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, the South China Morning Post reported. Xi was not receptive. Our timeline traces the China–Japan rift from Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks to next month’s APEC summit in Shenzhen.

Two days after reports that China had rejected EU calls to curb hybrid exports, the two sides announced a “shared understanding” in Beijing that Brussels says could cut Chinese hybrid exports to Europe by more than half. What was agreed, what is still unknown and what comes next.

Anwar hosts Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing in Putrajaya, China rejects EU calls to curb hybrid exports, South Korea unveils a 1 quadrillion won green plan, a tanker is hit off Qatar and Indian banks raise loan rates. What matters in Asia today.

A federal magistrate judge in Los Angeles has ordered Wanying Zhang, accused of acting as an unregistered agent of China and surveilling the son of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te, held in custody until trial. What each side argued, and what happens next.

China has refused an EU request to voluntarily limit hybrid car exports to Europe, the Financial Times reported, while Bloomberg says the European Commission is preparing time-limited safeguard measures. What is on the table, the numbers behind the dispute, and what to watch.

US prosecutors say a 34-year-old real estate agent from Irvine filmed the Seattle-area home of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s son on the orders of Chinese officials. She was arrested at Los Angeles airport before a flight to China. Taiwan calls it transnational repression.

The 20th Asian Games ended in Nagoya on Sunday. China won 169 golds and 341 medals, hosts Japan set their own record with 269, and a 13-year-old swimmer was named women’s MVP. The Games were also marked by transport and housing failures.