President Trump threw dismissed the idea of meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin anytime soon on the war in Ukraine, reiterating to reporters en route to Malaysia that “I’m not going to be wasting my time,” Reuters reports.

“Chinese and American trade negotiators said on Sunday that they had agreed to a framework of a deal ahead of an expected meeting of the countries’ top leaders this week,” the New York Times reports.

“The negotiators were in Kuala Lumpur for a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, where President Trump began a nearly weeklong trip to Asia. He is expected to meet on Thursday with Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, at a separate economic meeting in South Korea.”

Wall Street Journal: U.S. and China sound confident note after trade talks.

“The future of Argentina’s free-market experiment hinges on its midterm congressional elections Sunday,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Rarely are Washington and Wall Street watching a local foreign election this closely, but rarely has so much been riding on the outcome, including a $40 billion U.S. rescue plan.”

“If President Javier Milei’s Freedom Advances party effectively loses the election, the brash libertarian leader’s radical overhaul of Argentina’s economy will come crashing to a halt. If Milei’s party scratches out a narrow win, he will have a fighting chance to carry out phase two of his remake of Argentina.”

The U.S. will impose an additional 10% tariff on Canada, President Trump said, a punitive measure in response to an ad campaign that he said misrepresented comments by former President Ronald Reagan, the Wall Street Journal reports.