***What in the World? Weekly Quiz – August 3-9, 2020***

The United States conducted drills in the Pacific and Indian Oceans last week with Australia, Japan and India. The four partners are building an alliance known as THIS arrangement that would form an “Asian Arc of Democracy” around China.

U.S. officials have been concerned about personal data being handled by Byte-Dance, the Chinese firm that owns the popular App TikTok. President Trump has given Byte-Dance 45 days to conclude a sale of TikTok to THIS American corporation.

A day after President Donald Trump floated the idea of delaying the U.S. Presidential election Hong Kong’s chief executive citing the COVID-19 pandemic announced a one-year postponement of September’s legislative election drawing widespread global condemnation. WHO is the chief executive of Hong Kong.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel demanded an explanation in a letter to U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Todd Chapman about reports in Brazil that he pressured the government to do a “favor” to aid the reelection of President Trump. A Brazilian congressman told the New York Times that Chapman had conversations about the “electoral calendar during a recent meeting the two had about” THIS matter.

The Gamaleya Institute announced it would have a COVID-19 vaccine ready for approval by August 10^th and there are plans to vaccinate the population in October. The Institute is in THIS country.

Iran’s supreme leader told his country on Friday in a televised holiday address that Iran would expand its nuclear program and that it would not negotiated with the United States. He said negotiations would only boost President Trumps reelection chances, “This old man who is in charge in America apparently used negotiations with North Korea as propaganda.”  WHO is Iran’s supreme leader.