Bloomberg China, Russia and Iran are looking to disrupt the US electoral process before November’s vote, including attempts at compromising the private communications of political campaigns and candidates, a top US intelligence official warned. William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said that federal officials continue to monitor hackers trying to gain access to state and federal ...

Bloomberg Australia joined the US in rejecting China’s expansive maritime claims in the South China Sea, calling them “inconsistent” with the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. “There is no legal basis for China to draw straight baselines connecting the outermost points of maritime features or ‘island groups’ in the South China Sea,” Australia’s mission to ...

Bloomberg US officials said they now have custody of a Chinese researcher who had taken shelter at the country’s consulate in San Francisco after she was charged with trying to hide her military background. Officials briefing reporters declined to discuss the circumstances of the arrest of Juan Tang, a researcher at the University of California at Davis who was accused ...