President Tsai Ing-wen met (SCMP) with de facto envoys from Japan and the United States to affirm ties after her landslide victory in Saturday’s election, while China’s foreign ministry urged (Nikkei) the international community to adhere to the One China principle and oppose Taiwan’s independence.
 
Tsai’s reelection campaign promised to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty and democracy, and she received the highest number of votes since Taiwan began direct presidential elections in 1996, winning with a 57.1 percent (FT) majority. Her Democratic Progressive Party also maintained control of Taiwan’s legislature. Beijing’s Taiwan Affairs Office said it would continue to pursue a “one country, two systems” strategy for Taiwan’s reunification with China, a proposal that Taiwanese leaders have rejected for decades.

Demonstrators denounced Iran’s accidental shooting of a Ukrainian passenger plane for the third consecutive day of protests (Reuters). Iranian security forces fired tear gas (NYT), rubber bullets, and live ammunition at protesters yesterday in Tehran.
 
Iraq: A rocket attack on an air base outside Baghdad that hosts U.S. forces killed (AP) four Iraqi service members, security officials said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Authorities arrested a senior Kashmir police officer suspected of aiding pro-independence rebels (Al Jazeera) in the region, the chief of police said.
 
Afghanistan: Two U.S. troops were killed (WSJ) by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

French President Emmanuel Macron summoned the leaders of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger to a summit (NYT) in southern France today to discuss the country’s support for anti-extremist military operations in West Africa amid rising anti-French sentiment in the region. 
 
CFR’s John Campbell looks at the criticism of France’s efforts to fight extremists in the Sahel.
 
Africa: African economies are set to grow by an average of 3.8 percent in 2020, outpacing (Quartz) the projected 3.4 percent global growth, according to a Brookings Institution report.

Russia hosts peace talks (Reuters) today between the two warring sides in Libya’s civil war, Russian media reported. The Libyan rivals agreed to a cease-fire (NYT) over the weekend.
 
In Foreign Affairs, Frederic Wehrey and Jalel Harchaoui discuss how to stop Libya’s collapse.
 
France: The government announced it has retracted (BBC) its plan to raise the retirement age from sixty-two to sixty-four, a key concession for strikers denouncing proposed pension reforms.

El Salvador passed a law (VOA) that aims to protect the tens of thousands of displaced people inside the country by providing them with humanitarian aid and restoring their basic rights. UN reports show that gang violence forcibly displaced more than seventy thousand Salvadorans between 2006 and 2016.
 
Colombia: Police said they foiled a plan (BBC) to assassinate former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) commander Rodrigo Londono Echeverri, widely known as Timochenko.

A 5.9-magnitude (NYT) aftershock hit Puerto Rico on Saturday in the fifteenth day since tremors began rattling the island, causing fresh power outages and cracking buildings.