Boris Wins

Boris Johnson will be the U.K.’s next prime minister. The public face of the Brexit campaign won the contest to succeed Theresa May, taking over a country in crisis and a government on the brink of breaking apart. He defeated Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt by a landslide in a ballot of the Conservative Party’s roughly 160,000 members. Johnson spent the hours after he was elected rallying the troops, telling Conservative members of Parliament what most of them wanted to hear: The U.K. will leave the EU on Oct. 31, and there won’t be an early general election.

Trade On

China and the U.S. will resume face-to-face talks next week, with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer set to lead a small team of senior officials to Shanghai on Monday, people familiar said. Negotiations are scheduled to run through Wednesday. It will be the first in-person meeting since the process broke down in May. It’s probably a good thing that Christopher Wray wasn’t invited. The FBI director told U.S. senators Tuesday that China is engaging in a sweeping effort to steal its way to economic dominance, with more than 1,000 investigations underway on intellectual property theft “almost all leading back to China.”

Back Off

The U.S. should remove its “black hand” from Hong Kong, a Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said, claiming there are “signs of foreign forces behind the protests.” Beijing had previously been less specific in blaming other countries for demonstrations that have drawn hundreds of thousands of people concerned with proposed legal changes that would erode the city’s autonomy.

Gloomy Outlook

The IMF cut its global growth outlook again and suggested that policy “missteps” on trade and Brexit could derail a projected rebound. The world economy will expand 3.2% this year and 3.5% in 2020, both down 0.1 percentage point from April projections. A rate of 3.3% or lower would be the weakest since 2009. China was predicted to expand 6.2% this year and 6% next year, both also down 0.1 percentage point. The U.S. forecast was to 2.6% and 1.9% respectively.

Car Cuts

Nissan plans to shed at least 5,200 additional jobs globally this year, according to Kyodo News. This would take the total number of dismissals to 10,000 worldwide, or more than 7% of the company’s workforce. The cuts come as the automaker looks to revive business in the wake of car-inspection scandals and the arrest of former Chairman Carlos Ghosn.