News Wire | April 10, 2023 Archive

Intelligence Leak Exposes U.S. Spying on Adversaries and Allies

By Shane Harris & Dan Lamothe | The Washington Post (free)

On Saturday, as U.S. officials and their foreign allies scrambled to understand how dozens of classified intelligence documents had ended up on the internet, they were stunned—and occasionally infuriated—at the extraordinary range of detail the files exposed about how the United States spies on friends and foes alike.

China Holds Military Drills Around Taiwan in ‘Stern Warning’

By Chris Buckley, Amy Chang Chien & Vivian Wang | The New York Times

China began three days of military exercises around Taiwan on Saturday in what it called a “stern warning,” after the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen, met earlier in the week with Speaker Kevin McCarthy, in a show of Taiwanese-U.S. solidarity.

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