Articles by David E. Sanger
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North Korea Tensions Pose Early, and Perilous, Test for Trump
David E. Sanger, Choe Sang-Hun, Chris Buckley and Michael R. Gordon – The New York Times,
20 Mar 2017
7 Mar 2017 – The United States began deploying a missile defense system in South Korea this week. China condemned the new antimissile system as a dangerous opening move in what it called America’s grand strategy to set up similar defenses across Asia, threatening to tilt the balance of power there against Beijing.
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William J. Broad and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
29 Sep 2014
This expansion comes under a president who campaigned for “a nuclear-free world.” Mr. Obama spoke in Prague saying the United States had a moral responsibility to seek the “security of a world without nuclear weapons.” The Nobel committee, citing his disarmament efforts, announced it would award Mr. Obama the Peace Prize.
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Martin Fackler and David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
7 Jul 2014
Japan’s prime minister announced a reinterpretation of the country’s pacifist Constitution on Tuesday [1 Jul 2014], freeing its military for the first time in over 60 years to play a more assertive role in the increasingly tense region.
→ read full articleFine Line Seen in U.S. Spying on Companies
David E. Sanger – The New York Times,
26 May 2014
The NSA has never said what it was seeking when it invaded the computers of Petrobras, Brazil’s huge national oil company, but angry Brazilians have guesses: the company’s troves of data on Brazil’s offshore oil reserves, or perhaps its plans for allocating licenses for exploration to foreign companies.
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David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlrothmar – International New York Times,
24 Mar 2014
The NSA pried its way into the servers in Huawei’s sealed headquarters in Shenzhen, China’s industrial heart, according to documents provided by Edward J. Snowden. It obtained information about the workings of the giant routers and complex digital switches that Huawei boasts connect a third of the world’s population, and monitored communications of the company’s top executives.
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David E. Sanger and Thom Shanker – International New York Times,
20 Jan 2014
The National Security Agency has implanted software in nearly 100,000 computers around the world that allows the United States to conduct surveillance on those machines and can also create a digital highway for launching cyberattacks.
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