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The Chinese Ministry of State Security briefed top leaders including President Xi Jinping that global anti-China sentiment was at its highest since THIS event according to a Reuters exclusive report.

2008 global economic crisis

2002 downing of an American reconnaissance aircraft at Hainan Island

1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown

2012 nuclear reactor accident at Chongqing

Shinzo Abe, Prime Minister of THIS country extended a state of emergency to May 31 based on a steady rate of Covid-19 infections. Abe said, “May will be a month where we need to end this pandemic. It will also be a month where we will prepare for the next stage.”

Thailand

Vietnam

Japan

South Korea

A flotilla of American and British warships entered THIS BODY OF WATER for what they called maritime security operations in Arctic conditions. The four US Navy and one Royal Navy vessels were being tracked by Russia’s Northern Fleet.

Barents Sea

Sea of Okhotsk

Baltic Sea

Black Sea

Among the pandemic responses in the U.S. Government is an effort to reduce reliance on THIS as indicated by a State Department official who told reporters, “We’ve been working on [reducing the reliance of [THIS]] over the last few years but we are now turbo-charging that initiative.”

Medicines from India

PPE from the EU

China supply chains

None of the above

Jacinda Arden, Prime Minister of ONE OF THESE TWO countries said she would participate in an emergency meeting with the cabinet of the OTHER OF THESE TWO countries, a move that signaled a so-called “Trans-Tasman bubble” for bilateral travel could be near.

Scotland and Norway

Sweden and Finland

Australia and New Zealand

Germany and Norway

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that “there’s enormous evidence” Covid-19 originated in THIS PLACE. On April 30, 2020 the Intelligence Community said it “concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified,” and was continuing “to rigorously examine emerging information and intelligence to determine whether the outbreak began through contact with infected animals or if it was the result of an accident at” THIS PLACE.

Ministry of Infectious Disease Control in Beijing

Wuhan Virology Institute

Hong Kong Center for Virological Studies

Wuhan University Medical Center

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s hearing for extradition to the United States will resume in September in THIS country after Covid-19 related delays. Assange faces charges in the U.S. Stemming from unauthorized publication of thousands of diplomatic cables that Washington claims endangered lives of intelligence sources.

Norway

Germany

United Kingdom

Ecuador

Following several weeks of absence from public events and rumors of being near death THIS enigmatic leader returned in appearances on May Day.

Robert Mugabe

Kim Jong un

Boris Johnson

Cyril Ramaphosa

The Israeli Supreme Court heard arguments against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s effort to form a governing coalition because of THIS.

His statement about annexation of parts of the West Bank in two months.

His indictment on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.

His support for arrest of Orthodox Jews violating Covid-19 restrictions.

None of the above.

The recent case of cycling 16 judges through the trial of two women found guilty on charges of terrorism demonstrates the manipulation of the judiciary by the government of THIS Turkish President.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Ahmet Davutoglu

Abdullah Gul

Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu

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