U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy welcomes Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Southern California.
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives in Beijing where he and European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen are to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Japan plans to offer friendly nations security aid, but the aid is not to be used for deadly weapons.
And in the United States, presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump pleaded "not guilty" to 34 charges of making false business records in a New York City courtroom.
