World Boston What in the World? Weekly Quiz – August 8-14, 2022

The White House said the controversial visit of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan was not a change in policy, governed by THIS long-standing Washington approach to the U.S.-China relationship.

 

"Forty-three years ago, America made a promise to always stand with Taiwan... Today our delegation came to Taiwan to make it unequivocally clear we will not abandon our commitment to Taiwan," House Speaker Pelosi said in remarks made during her visit to THIS capital.

 

The United States Senate approved 95-1 the accession of THESE countries to NATO. The application of the countries was considered unlikely prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

 

The killing of two Palestinian militant group commanders touched off days of counterstrikes between Israelis and Palestinians resulting in over 40 dead and hundreds wounded in THIS territory.

 

The head of a UN agency is raising alarms over fighting in Ukraine at THIS facility at Zaporizhzhia.

 

The Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, welcomed THIS far-right head of government to its conference in Texas as a keynote speaker. He is a champion of white nationalism at home and has a long-standing relationship with American right-wing figures.

The People’s Liberation Army extended military drills for at least one more week, beyond the expected Sunday end date. China’s belligerent exercises, said to respond to Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan visit, now extend into THIS body of water, separating China from the Korean Peninsula.

 

Colombia’s first left-wing president was sworn in last week. THIS former Marxist guerilla announced plans for reform of the economy, health care, education, drug enforcement and the oil and gas industry.

 

The United States aims to counter Russian influence in Africa during the visit of THIS American official to South Africa, Rwanda and Congo.

 

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres attacked the largest companies in THIS industry that showed first quarter profits of almost $100 billion. He said their “grotesque greed” punished “the poorest and most vulnerable people, while destroying our only home.”