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The International Monetary Fund said Asia’s economy is expected to contract by 1.6% this year — a downgrade from its previous forecast of no growth in April. “Asia cannot be an exception” when the whole world is suffering from the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, said Changyong Rhee, director of the Asia and Pacific department at IMF.

The U.S. is playing catch-up to China’s growing political and economic influence in Southeast Asia, and that gap is expected to grow wider in the next decade, according to a report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

10:42 - President Donald Trump’s administration is banning Chinese airlines from flying to the United States starting in mid-June as Beijing hasn’t permitted U.S. carriers to resume flights there. Delta and United are seeking to resume flights to China after suspending service earlier this year because of the coronavirus.

17:06 - The nation's top infectious disease expert said Friday that an aggressive investment into the development and production of a vaccine against the coronavirus might make it possible to distribute millions of doses as the year comes to a close.

Shares in Asia were higher on Friday, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 gaining more than 2%. The Reserve Bank of Australia on Friday released its statement on monetary policy, where it highlighted that global GDP is “expected to fall sharply in the first half of 2020.”

The deal will bring “so much important stability to the market” and the two sides are “very close,” said Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund RDIF. A virtual meeting between OPEC and its allies was scheduled to happen on Monday, but is now “likely” to take place on Thursday instead, sources told CNBC.

17:34 - Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said that the Pentagon was able to offer up to 2,000 deployable ventilators, but that the machines were different than those used by civilians and would require training before operation. He added that the U.S. government would need to seek support from industry on procuring more ventilators. The virus — which has already killed more than 7,167 people and infected more than 183,000 people around the world — is spreading from the U.S. military’s Indo-Pacific Command, the largest of all geographic combatant commands.

15:15 - China said Tuesday that it will expel American journalists working in the country for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post whose press credentials are due to expire in 2020. The country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that U.S. reporters for those publications must return their press cards within 10 days. The move continues a tit-for-tat battle between Washington and Beijing that began in February after the Journal ran an opinion article with the headline, “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia.”

06/01 - 19:30 - The Pentagon said that a U.S. general’s letter informing Iraq’s Defense Ministry that U.S.-led coalition troops would leave Iraq “was a mistake.” American Defense officials insisted that the troops would remain there. The letter came a day after Iraq’s parliament voted to expel all foreign forces from the nation after a U.S. airstrike that killed Iran’s leading general, Qasem Soleimani. President Donald Trump said, “We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for” an aiport built by the United States.