👉Japan prime minister, Shinzo Abe, visited Pearl Harbour on the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on the harbour that triggered WWII. Although previous Japanese ministers have visited the harbour before, this visit will be first where the country's leader will give a speech as part of the commemoration.
👉 George Michael, the singer who gave us hits like Careless Whisper, Last Christmas, Faith, I Want Your Sex, etc., passed away. He was part of the duo called Wham! that was a huge success back in the 80s. Interestingly, in 1985, Wham was the first Western pop band to stage a concert in the People's Republic of China. Here is one of their 1984 hit song Last Christmas (it is quite amazing to know that every year come Christmas the song enters the chart again and as recently as 2016, it shot up all the to number 7 on the UK chart):
👉 On December 2, Taiwan president, Tsai Ing Wen made a phone call to US president-elect, Donald Trump, to congratulate the latter in winning the presidential election. The call is significant as it is because it marks the first official contact between the two countries' leaders since 1979 when the US ended official relations with Taiwan and instead formally recognised China.