On January 17, 2020, Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his Burmese counterpart, President Win Myint. The two-day meeting is an effort on behalf of Beijing to establish diplomatic ties with Myanmar as the international community increasingly accuses the Southeast Asian country of a genocide that forced nearly 1 million Rohingya Muslims out of the country ...

The German government has announced plans to close all of its coal-based power plants by the year 2038. In the meantime...

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos visited India to announce an increased investment in the country. His visit is not without controversy...

On January 14, 2020, the E3 bloc, which consists of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, triggered a dispute mechanism under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), believing that Iran is no longer in compliance with the nuclear agreement. Despite the perceived lack of compliance ...

In a blow to China and a triumph for Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party. Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first female president, was re-elected as president for the next four years, securing 57.1% of the votes, while her main rival, pro-China Han Kuo-yu received 38.6% of the votes ...

Following 159 days without internet access in Kashmir, India’s Supreme Court ruled that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s internet lockdown imposed on the Kashmir region is unlawful. Internet, mobile phone and landline services were suspended after the government removed partial autonomy of the former state in August ...

In early January 2020, Indonesia deployed four air force fighter jets to the South China Sea in response to an apparent incursion by Chinese ships into its exclusive economic zone. The Chinese ships...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in January 2020 to inaugurate a new natural gas pipeline that will transport Russian gas into Turkey and Europe. Construction of the TurkStream Pipeline...

On January 6, 2020, Facebook stated in a blog post that it would ban deep fakes - heavily manipulated videos, often of politicians or celebrities, utilizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create content. The social media platform said that it would remove content, especially videos, that (1) are manipulated in ways that “aren’t apparent to the average person” and (2) that would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words they did not actually say ...

Venezuelan security forces blocked opposition leader Juan Guaido and his backers from entering the National Assembly, preventing him from partaking in a session where he was expected to be re-elected as the legislature’s leader ...