Daily brief
China said its military activities around Taiwan are 'reasonable and justified', while the Chinese foreign ministry responded to a Japanese Self-Defense Force vessel entering the Taiwan Straits by stating that Japan compounds its mistakes.
U.S. intelligence reports that China studied providing Iran with advanced radar and that Russia shared battlefield data with Iran, while a separate report says without Chinese help it will take years for Iran to have thousands of missiles.
Drug packages, including ketamine, washed ashore on Japanese islands near Korea.
A Chinese researcher on a J-1 visa pleaded guilty to smuggling E. coli bacteria into the US disguised as women's underwear.
A Chinese man was sentenced to a year in jail for trying to smuggle thousands of ants out of Kenya (ongoing coverage).
by WorldBrief & Maksim Micheliov | AI-generated summary