Global Diplomacy, Tragedy, and Cybersecurity: This Week's Headlines.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing for high-stakes talks with senior Chinese officials, aimed at steering relations back on course after months of inflamed tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Meanwhile, a global cyberattack has compromised millions of people's data in Louisiana and Oregon, and hundreds of organizations across the globe have likely had their data exposed. In other news, the gunman who killed 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018 was convicted on all 63 charges against him, and armed rebels attacked a school in western Uganda, killing at least 41 people, mostly students, and abducting six others.