Overview of several global political and economic developments occurring in late May 2025, highlighting significant events in the United States, such as a court challenge to tariffs and internal administration tensions, and international affairs, including Germany's economic stimulus efforts, escalating tech tensions and diplomatic outreach by China, and pleas for peace from the Vatican. The reports also cover ongoing conflicts and crises, detailing the intensified fighting in the Russia-Ukraine and Sudan wars, the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza alongside continued Israeli military actions, heightened military posturing in the Taiwan Strait, and persistent internal conflicts in Myanmar, Libya, and Ethiopia, as well as the deteriorating security crisis in the African Sahel region.
