It was Ramadan in the ummah, now it's Pride month in the west.
India reelected Modi, crushing the opposition. China had Mao, Deng, Xi, now India has Nehru, Indira, Modi. During the long voting period, governments were reelected in Indonesia (despite violent Islamist protests) and Australia (despite confidently wrong polls).
American allies have detained Huawei's Meng Wanzhou and Wikileaks's Julian Assange, as part of the struggle with China and Russia respectively. Google and Facebook refused to install apps on Huawei phones, but Russia and Brazil said they would let Huawei develop their 5G networks.
Trump's America waged trade war against China, threatened Mexico with tariffs over the border issue and Turkey with sanctions for buying Russian missiles, and even removed duty-free status from Indian imports, as well as continuing the economic siege of Iran, by proposing to target any country that bought Iranian oil.
Governments fell in Algeria and Sudan, and General Haftar fought for power in Libya. Maduro hung on in Venezuela; Ramaphosa in South Africa; Netanyahu in Israel - but they will vote again. Euroskeptics dominated the EU vote in Britain, France, and Italy. Notre Dame burned, and Islamic State massacred Christians in Sri Lanka.
