Test yourself on the week of May 9: U.S. President Donald Trump visits China, India and Kenya host summits, and several prime ministers have a rough time.
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Test yourself on the week of May 9: U.S. President Donald Trump visits China, India and Kenya host summits, and several prime ministers have a rough time.
By Syd Kuntz, a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy.
Macron and Ruto stand side by side, with Ruto on the right. Ruto points a finger at Macron, who is smiling and has both hands raised with his open palms facing Ruto in a gesture that looks like he's trying to convey innocence.
Kenyan President William Ruto (right) speaks with French President Emmanuel Macron in Nairobi on May 12. Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images
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A certain president’s trip to China captured headlines all week. Did you let it distract you from the other events around the world? Test yourself with our quiz!
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A certain president’s trip to China captured headlines all week. Did you let it distract you from the other events around the world? Test yourself with our quiz!
1. What did lawmakers in the Philippines on Monday vote overwhelmingly to do?
Duterte is accused of misusing public funds, among other charges. If convicted, she could be ineligible to run for public office—threatening the possibility of her vying for the presidency in 2028, a scenario that Derek Grossman wrote about last year.
2. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa gave a televised address on Monday rejecting calls for him to resign over a scandal that involved thieves stealing money from one of his properties. In what type of furniture was the cash hidden?
Ramaphosa has been accused of hiding the break-in from the authorities but denies allegations of wrongdoing, FP’s Nosmot Gbadamosi reports in Africa Brief.
3. French President Emmanuel Macron faced backlash after doing what at the Africa Forward Summit in Nairobi on Monday?
It was the first time that the summit took place in an Anglophone country. The location was chosen partly due to growing dissatisfaction with France in the countries that it formerly colonized, a trend that FP columnist Howard W. French described in 2024.
4. Which Caribbean country held a general election on Tuesday?
The vote was held ahead of schedule to avoid the Atlantic hurricane season. Increasingly intense storms are forcing Caribbean nations to get creative with their environmental resilience strategies, FP’s Catherine Osborn wrote in Latin America Brief last year.
5. Tens of thousands of people protested government austerity measures during a demonstration in which Latin American capital on Tuesday?
Despite a strong showing in midterm elections last October, the Argentine government is increasingly alienating the same voters who brought it to power, Oliver Stuenkel and Adrian Feinberg wrote at the time.
6. U.S. President Donald Trump arrived in Beijing on Wednesday for a state visit. Who was the first sitting U.S. president to visit China?
Nixon’s 1972 trip was transformative, but official visits between the two countries’ leaders tend to be fairly routine—although Taiwan remains a reliable flash point, FP’s James Palmer reports in China Brief.
7. On Thursday, who became the first senior minister to resign from U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s cabinet over a lack of confidence in the premier?
Despite growing calls from within his own Labour Party to resign, Starmer has thus far dug in his heels, John Kampfner writes.
8. The premier peril doesn’t end there! Which Baltic country saw its prime minister resign on Thursday?
The governing coalition collapsed after the prime minister critiqued the country’s defense minister for failing to detect incursions of Ukrainian drones in Latvian territory, FP’s Alexandra Sharp reports in World Brief.
9. India hosted the foreign ministers of which multilateral grouping for a two-day summit that began on Thursday? (Clue: It currently holds the rotating presidency of this bloc.)
Conflicting priorities among the bloc’s expanded membership are making coordination increasingly difficult, FP’s Michael Kugelman reports in South Asia Brief.
10. Scientists announced in research published this week that they had discovered a new type of dinosaur. In which Southeast Asian country were its fossilized bones found?
The massive sauropod—named Nagatitan chaiyaphumensis after the naga, a part-serpent, part-human being in regional folklore—weighed an estimated 27 metric tons, according to the article in Scientific Reports, or about as much as nine Asian elephants.
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