In today’s Geopolitical Dispatch:

• SYRIA. Amid the focus on Lebanon, another conflict threatens to revive.

  
  



• TAIWAN. CHINA. Beijing runs rings around Taipei.

  
  



• PAKISTAN. CHINA. Li Qiang visits Islamabad after a spike in violence.

  
  



• INDIA. CANADA. Delhi and Ottawa escalate a diplomatic spat.

  
  



• ETHIOPIA. EGYPT. A dispute on the Nile can be traced to Somalia.