Shipping containers at the Tianjin port, China, 5 February 2025. (Keystone/EPA/Jessica Lee)

🇨🇳China calls US tariffs ‘bullying’, urged others to continue with consultation. Beijing has already issued a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization and will raise the reciprocal tariffs as “a new trade concern” at a meeting at the multilateral body on Wednesday.

📄What’s new in the latest draft pandemic agreement? Academics at the Geneva Graduate Institute’s global health centre delve into the newest proposal and the contentious topics left to resolve.

💡Opinion – Global health financing crisis: dog-eat-dog or constructive prioritisation? Health communications strategist Jon Linden offers his perspective on the direction that the global health landscape could take and how it could adapt in these tumultuous times.

🛠️UN appeals fall flat in face of Trump's budget steamroller. The International Organization for Migration is taking steps to ensure its survival under a Trump administration, including revising due diligence rules.

⛰️ICYMI: Davos forum founder Klaus Schwab to step down as chair of trustees. The announcement comes weeks after Schwab promised a revamp following an investigation into discrimination in the workplace. The WEF said the exit process should be complete by 2027.

🤰🏽Global aid cuts pose ‘threat of major backsliding’ with maternal deaths. Women’s deaths during pregnancy and childbirth have dropped by 40 per cent since 2000, but progress has slowed down in the last years and could even backtrack with the aid cuts.