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ASEAN Summit, AMLO’s Final Year, COVID-19 Variants Emerge, and More

ASEAN Summit, AMLO’s Final Year, COVID-19 Variants Emerge, and More

The World Next Week

August 31, 202330m 32s

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Show Notes

Southeast Asian leaders meet in Jakarta, Indonesia for the forty-third Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, working to improve the bloc’s cooperation with external partners; Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, commonly known as AMLO, begins the last year of his six-year term; new COVID-19 variants drive a spike in U.S. cases and hospitalizations; and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo’s visit to Beijing spurs renewed interest in U.S.-China trade.

 

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