History buff inadvertently buys books of Chinese “military secrets” for less than $1, official says

How China and Russia fight a propaganda war with the U.S. A military history buff in China appears to have made an alarming discovery after picking up four discarded books for less than $1 at a neighborhood recycling station: They were confidential military documents. The country’s ministry of state security told the story in a social media post on Thursday, praising the retired man for calling a hotline to report the incident. It identified him only by his family name, Zhang, and did not say what the documents were about. “Mr. Zhang thought to himself that he had ‘bought’ the…