A senior US official said Washington expects Seoul to uphold alliance standards on intelligence and counterintelligence. South Korea’s spy agency says the misunderstanding is in the past, but its top general told lawmakers US intelligence sharing on North Korea is still partly restricted.

US prosecutors say a 34-year-old real estate agent from Irvine filmed the Seattle-area home of Taiwan President Lai Ching-te’s son on the orders of Chinese officials. She was arrested at Los Angeles airport before a flight to China. Taiwan calls it transnational repression.

Two new F-16V Block 70 fighters landed at Chihhang Air Base in Taitung on October 2, the first of 66 jets Taiwan ordered from the United States in 2019. More are due before the end of the year.

The US is sending the USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group and about 9,000 sailors and Marines to the Middle East. President Trump has rejected Iran's latest proposal as "not good enough".

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Taiwanese companies plan an additional $20 billion of investment in the United States as...

Iran says it will reciprocate if the United States returns to a June ceasefire framework, but neither side has announced a restored agreement.