Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Nora Rahm.

Ukrainian President Velodemir Zelensky is on his way to the U.S., where he's to meet

tomorrow with President Trump in Florida.

He stopped off in Halifax today, where he met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Carney announced Canada is providing $1.8 billion worth of economic assistance.

Zelensky says he's hoping for a constructive meeting with President Trump tomorrow.

We need two things, pressure on Russia and sufficient strong support for Ukraine.

We will speak about air defense.

And last weeks we had good steps in diplomacy but we can't live in

illusion that it gives us possibility to have less air defense with Russia doesn't work

Zelensky said a Russian strike on Kiev overnight shows Russia doesn't want peace

at least two people were killed and dozens were wounded.

China has passed amendments to a foreign trade law that would make it easier for the state to

retaliate in the event of a trade war. It also opens up its economy to certain kinds of investment.

NPR's Emily Fang reports. The law takes effect in March, and the amendments were designed with the CPPP in mind.

This is a trans-Pacific free trade agreement of now 12 countries, which originally also included the U.S., though the U.S. officially withdrew in 2017 during the first Trump administration.

Now China wants to join the CPPPP, and it's revised

some elements of its law on digital trade and intellectual property to meet the group's standards.

It's also beefed up its wording on powers to counteract lawsuits from private and foreign firms.

China's revised its foreign trade law only three times. The last

time was in 2022 when China moved to streamline import and export procedures. Emily Fang and

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