Three candidates were targeted with fake blogs alleging sexual misconduct, anonymous social media accounts, and coordinated ads.

Meta traced the network back to Israel and removed it.

One candidate withdrew from his race; another lost a close runoff and is asking the court to annul the result.

BlackCore's website and LinkedIn disappeared after Reuters contacted them.

No one has been charged yet, and Israel says it's never heard of the firm.

Source: Reuters

I think China's preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly voluntarily join them.

In a perfect world, what they would want is some vote or a referendum in Taiwan that agrees to fold in. I think that's what they would prefer.

Ultimately it's featured prominently in President Xi's mandate in the time he's been in office. He's made clear that what they call reunification, what they call it, is something that has to happen at some point.

We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature.

The pace of growth in the Chinese military over the last 10 years has no precedent, none.

They've put billions and billions and billions of dollars in their system. I don't think it's just limited to Taiwan.

I think they have ambitions to ultimately be able to project power globally the way the US does now.

They're still behind us in that regard, but nonetheless, they are investing a lot of money. They are right now the world's 2nd most powerful military without a doubt.