What in the World? Weekly Quiz - Jan 20-26, 2020

More than a year in the making, THIS event taking place in Vancouver is being closely monitored for its potential repercussions on US-China-Canada relations.

A National Hockey League exhibition game featuring the Chinese national team

The first of a series of military exercises between China and NATO

The signing ceremony for a renewed China-North America trade pact

The extradition hearings of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou

The UN World Food Programme announced that a record 45 million people in THIS 16-nation inter-governmental organization face growing hunger due to drought, flooding, and economic disarray. Some member states, like Mozambique and Malawi, are still recovering from natural disasters, while others, like Zimbabwe, are experiencing soaring inflation and food and fuel shortages.

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)

Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)

As tensions between the US and Iran persist following the assassination of a top Iranian general, the two countries are engaged in a heated fight on THIS unusual platform. In Chinese and in plain view of China’s hundreds of millions of internet users, the US and Iranian embassies in Beijing have been exchanging barbs back and forth.

Chinese video-sharing service TikTok

Chinese newspaper People’s Daily

Chinese state television CCTV

Chinese microblogging site Weibo

Shock waves have resulted from THIS comment by India’s top military commander at an international affairs conference in New Delhi. General Bipin Rawat was answering a question about fighting terrorism in Kashmir, which was India’s only predominantly Muslim state until August when the government summarily erased its statehood.

�These people need to be taken out separately, possibly taken into some deradicalization camps”

�It is time to acknowledge that sharing Kashmir [with neighboring Pakistan] is an untenable situation”

�[Terrorism] will never be solved in Kashmir until [the Indian government] steps up to provide adequate resources for the Kashmiri people.”

�It is political radicalization, not religious radicalization, that make Kashmiri people incompatible with Indian democracy.”

THIS action by President Trump brings to a close the first chapter of the protracted fight between the US and China. It comes after more than two years of tense negotiations and escalating threats between the two countries.

The placing of sanctions on Chinese companies operating out of mainland China

The creation of a permanent bilateral economic council between the US and China

The signing of an initial trade deal between the US and China

The revocation of $360 billion in tariffs on Chinese goods

Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed sweeping changes to the country’s political system that would broadly have THIS effect. The changes, triggered by the resignation of the prime minister and government, are widely seen as giving Putin greater scope to extend his grip on power once he leaves the presidency in 2024.

Shift power from the presidency in favor of parliament and the prime minister

Eliminate presidential term limits and extend time between elections

Create a formal advisory position for past-presidents within the executive branch

Expand seats on the parliament to reduce the democratic voice of Russian citizens

A leaked cache of over 700,000 documents, referred to as THIS, has revealed how Isabel dos Santos built a business empire worth an estimate $2 billion through exploiting Angola’s wealth with the assistance of several US firms. The daughter of Angola’s former president, dos Santos had her assets frozen earlier this month in what she called a “politically motivated” move by her father’s successor.

Diamondgate

Luanda Leaks

Petroleum Papers

Angolan Laundromat

Germany has announced a plan to phase out THESE by 2038, having agreed with regional leaders to a $45 billion compensation scheme. The scheme will go towards new infrastructure projects and retraining programs in the German states most effected by the phase-out: Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony, North Rhine-Westphalia, and Brandenburg.

Mandatory emissions-testing of commercial vehicles

Shipments of industrial waste to global South countries

Coal-fired power plants

Diesel car production plants

A criminal investigation has been opened in Ukraine, following reports that allies of President Trump did THIS, which the Internal Affairs Ministry of Ukraine stated could be “possible violations of Ukrainian law and of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, which protect the rights of diplomats on the territory of another state.”

Hacked the records of the KyivPost to leak information about Russian activities in Ukraine

Placed former Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch under surveillance while stationed in Kyiv

Blackmailed Ukrainian politicians into investigating Joe Biden’s business ties in Ukraine

Advocated for President Trump to appoint a diplomatic representative to the proto-state Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine

THIS Venezuelan opposition leader has defied a travel ban to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. THIS figure, who it is rumored will then travel on to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is recognized as the rightful president of Venezuela by the United States and nearly 60 other countries.mmoned Prince Charles, Prince William and Prince Harry to a meeting to discuss the surprise announcement that Harry and his wife Meghan were stepping down as “senior royals” and would seek to become “financially independent.” Harry’s and Meghan’s official title is THIS.

Juan Guaidó

Nicolás Maduro

Simón Bolívar

Iván Duque Márquez

What in the World? Weekly Quiz - Jan 20-26, 2020

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