'Joined up': US leads effort to fortify Taiwan against Chinese election interference

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American and British officials are fighting the Chinese “cyber army” attempting to interfere in Taiwan’s upcoming presidential elections, the Washington Examiner has learned.

“It’s necessary,” retired Air Force Gen. Rob Spalding, who helped devise the Trump administration’s national security strategy in 2017, told the Washington Examiner. “It’s a break from recent precedents.”

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