Tokyo — Asian stocks joined a global equities surge on Wednesday after Washington delayed tariffs on some Chinese imports and gave much-needed relief for markets gripped by political and economic turmoil.

The tariff news largely offset a raft of disappointing China data for July. The yen rose on the news about China’s weak industrial production and other data...

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