| | | | | Mentioned in this edition: Tucker Carlson, Yoon Suk Yeol, Lai Ching-te, Xi Jinping, Bashar al-Assad, Mohammad al-Julani, Giorgia Meloni, Nayib Bukele, Mike Johnson, the French prime minister, an Iran-Saudi partnership, a neo-Nazi murder plot, and more. | | Have tips? Send them to me at ari@upward.news |
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| | | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | π°π· South Korea's president will likely be impeached. After his half-hearted coup attempt, the leader of President Yoon Suk Yeol's party called for his impeachment, along with that of his defense minister, virtually guaranteeing it to happen. Both could be charged with treason and face life in prison β or death. | πΉπΌ The president of Taiwan had a rare meeting with US officials. President Lai Ching-te met with the governor of Hawaii and members of Congress on a trip to Hawaii and Guam; he also held his first phone call with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). China's foreign ministry condemned the trip, while some Republicans urged stronger ties with Taiwan, including one House member calling for Lai to visit Washington. | π¨π³ China prohibited the export of crucial rare Earth minerals to the United States. In a tit-for-tat over America placing limits on semiconductor exports, the Chinese Communist Party banned key minerals like germanium, gallium, and others needed for crucial military hardware. America imports half of its intake of some of those metals from China. | π·πΊ Tucker Carlson interviewed Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov. Lavrov, the world's longest-serving foreign minister, sat down with Carlson in Moscow in his second major Russian interview this year β the first being with Vladimir Putin. Lavrov implied that he believed American servicemen were active in Ukraine, and reiterated that Ukraine's use of long-range weapons violated Russia's red lines. |
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| | | πͺπΊ EUROPE | Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the first round of presidential elections, citing last-minute declassified reports of alleged Russian interference. "Muhammad" is now the most popular boy's name in the United Kingdom. A group of neo-Nazis were arrested for a plot to kill Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. The United States is guaranteeing $4 billion in loans to Poland for defense procurement. France's prime minister was ousted in a vote of no confidence, the first in over 60 years.
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| | | Syrian rebels' blitzkrieg threatens Assad and the Russians | | Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a dictator who inherited the office when his father died, was nearly toppled in the mid-2010s. Western-backed rebels had gotten within blocks of his palace in Damascus, and ISIS had captured the southeastern half of his countryβ¦ | π This article is for members only | |
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| | | Biden's last-ditch effort to shore up Africa's support | | President Joe Biden undertook the final international trip of his presidency last week. It was not to a major ally in Western Europe, nor somewhere on the verge of bubbling over into open conflict, like the South China Seaβ¦ | π This article is for members only | |
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