BIDEN ADMINISTRATION | FIRST PRESS CONFERENCE In her first remarks, Jen Psaki, the new White House Press Secretary, announces that Biden's first foreign leader call will be with Canada's Prime Minister Trudeau on Friday. Other allied leaders will follow.

Shipments to China helped Japan's exports rise for the first time in two years in December, but still paled in comparison to Taiwan and South Korea's double-digit gains.

China's public and private sectors are set to spend $1.6 trillion through 2025 to develop next-generation infrastructure.

Japan's Suga plans to visit Washington in February and speak with Joe Biden by phone as early as this month.

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Dentsu joins other Japanese companies in reevaluating what to do with their Tokyo headquarters as COVID shifts workplaces.

Future Group was cleared to sell its retail assets for $3.4 billion to Reliance Industries, amid Amazon's allegations that Future breached pre-existing contracts.

Tencent has been testing WeChat mini shop, an app function that allows entrepreneurs and companies to easily set up an online store, since last summer.