US Weaves Intelligence Web: Australia Briefing
Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, left, and Penny Wong, Australia's foreign affairs minister.
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The US is looking to Asia to deepen intelligence cooperation as it tries to counter Beijing’s sophisticated spying apparatus and blunt Chinese cyber attacks. The Biden administration has developed a set of separate but overlapping partnerships in Asia, including the “Quad” grouping of the US, India, Japan and Australia.