Our daily gastro trip around the world

🇰🇷 Korean food is the most popular cuisine in the world, per a recent analysis from The Bucket List Company. The travel firm examined the level of engagement on various social media posts featuring different cuisines from around the world, with an emphasis on the rates of positive interaction for each dish. Second place was awarded to Italian food, with Mexican, Japanese, and Indian food rounding out the top-five.

🇹🇼 The US is planning to increase its troop presence on Taiwan in the coming months, sources told the WSJ. The US military reportedly plans to deploy between 100 and 200 troops to Taiwan, up from ~30 American troops stationed there a year ago. The larger force, which represents the biggest US deployment to the self-governing island in decades, will expand an ongoing training program that’s working to provide Taiwan with the capabilities it needs to defend itself from a potential Chinese invasion, per the Journal.

🇴🇲🤝🇮🇱 Oman agreed to open its airspace to Israeli planes yesterday, ending a decades-long ban. The move comes on the heels of a similar step by Saudi Arabia last July. While Oman wasn’t among the four Middle Eastern countries to sign historic normalization deals with Israel in 2020 (known as the Abraham Accords), the two countries have had secretive ties for years under Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu. Separately, Israel and Palestine exchanged airstrikes yesterday following an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday in which 11 Palestinians were killed, including at least four gunmen and four civilians.

+Update: Former Mastercard CEO Ajay Benga is President Biden's nominee to be the next president of the World Bank.