The United States and allies including the European Union and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries condemned China (FT) for widespread cyberattacks such those on Microsoft email systems at tens of thousands of organizations. The U.S. Justice Department also unsealed an indictment against people linked to China’s state security ministry who allegedly targeted universities, governments, and companies between 2011 and 2018.
 
While most of the European countries accused Beijing of allowing the hackers to operate, the United States and United Kingdom said the Chinese government more directly cooperated (NYT) with them. However, the joint condemnation of China was not accompanied by sanctions, unlike the SolarWinds hack in April that resulted in U.S. sanctions on Russia. Five different Chinese diplomatic missions denounced the allegations (SCMP) as lacking evidence, with one suggesting that the United States had conducted mass eavesdropping on other countries for years. 

Taiwan will open its first trade office (Bloomberg) in Europe under the name “Taiwan” rather than “Taipei,” as its other European diplomatic outposts are named. The plans for the office, in Lithuania, drew criticism from Beijing and praise from Washington.

After the February coup halted Myanmar’s economic recovery, 1.2 million people lost their jobs (Bloomberg) in the year’s second quarter, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said.
 
India: A new study of excess deaths during the pandemic found that the country’s COVID-19 death toll could be as high (Mint) as 4.7 million people, ten times higher (AP) than the official tally.
 
For Think Global Health, Poonam Muttreja looks at lessons from India’s coronavirus crisis.

A suicide-bomb attack at a Baghdad market killed at least thirty-five people and injured more than sixty, security and hospital sources told Reuters. The self-proclaimed Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
 
Jordan: King Abdullah II became the first Arab head of state to visit U.S. President Biden (NYT) at the White House. Biden called Abdullah a “loyal and decent friend” and suggested that Washington will return to prioritizing a close relationship with Amman, which was largely sidelined by the Donald Trump administration. 

Two men, including one with a knife, attacked interim President Assimi Goita (AFP, Reuters) at a mosque in Mali’s capital, Bamako, an official account for the presidency tweeted. Goita was unharmed, an official said.
 
Nigeria: The air force said one of its fighter jets was shot down (AFP) in the country’s northwestern state of Zamfara, where bandits have been active for years. The pilot survived.

At least 430 migrants crossed the English Channel (BBC) to the United Kingdom yesterday, the most ever reported in a single day. UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has supported legislation that would criminalize knowingly arriving in the country without permission.
 
Turkey: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would have “some conditions” (Anadolu) if it were to take responsibility for securing the Kabul airport after the United States withdraws from Afghanistan. He said Washington would need to take Ankara’s side in diplomatic relations and transfer the United States’ logistics capabilities to Turkey, among other terms.

Peru’s election authority announced that former union leader Pedro Castillo won the country’s June presidential election (BBC) after a weeks-long impasse in which his opponent, Keiko Fujimori, challenged the results. Ahead of the announcement, Fujimori said she would accept the official results.
 
CFR’s Paul J. Angelo and Chloe Mauvais discuss how the election revealed Peru’s divisions.
 
Haiti: Interim Prime Minister Claude Joseph agreed to step down (WSJ) and cede power to neurosurgeon Ariel Henry, whom President Jovenel Moise appointed as prime minister shortly before being assassinated on July 7. Joseph will serve as foreign minister in Henry’s cabinet.  

A federal judge sentenced Paul Allard Hodgkins (WaPo) to eight months in prison for obstructing a Congressional session on January 6, when he and other supporters of former President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. Prosecutors sought an eighteen-month sentence for Hodgkins, who is the first felony defendant to be sentenced for the riot.
 
In Foreign Affairs, Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Daniel Koehler write that violent extremism in the United States demands a social response.