News Snapshot:
After a Republican senator tweeted about troops in Taiwan, China’s state media issued a war warning. After Senator John Cornyn wrongly tweeted that there were 30,000 military stationed on Taiwan, the Global Times, a Chinese state-run media source, warned the US that a “all-out war” would ensue if it dispatched troops to the island. Cornyn compared the number of troops in Afghanistan in recent months to those stationed overseas, notably 30,000 troops in Taiwan, on Monday. Cornyn later deleted the tweet once it was pointed out that the number was inaccurate, but Chinese state media accused him of “testing” China...
