I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH AXIOS—IF TRUE, THIS IS INTERESTING:
2 hours ago - Politics & Policy
Scoop: Trump administration declassifies unconfirmed intel on Chinese bounties
Axios
Jonathan Swan, Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian
The Trump administration is declassifying as-yet uncorroborated intelligence, recently briefed to President Trump, that indicates China offered to pay non-state actors in Afghanistan to attack American soldiers, two senior administration officials tell Axios. ...snip...
Axios was started by people from Politico. Almost entirely staffed with former Politco peeps, I researched when they first came on the scene. Blind pings/truffles etc.
SEARCHING FOR MORE INFO ON CHINA/AFGHANISTAN-ANOTHER UNKNOWN SOURCE:
Afghanistan has busted a 10-member Chinese module operating a terror cell in the capital city of Kabul, according to diplomats and security officials in the West Asian country. The crackdown has come as a huge embarrassment for Beijing, which has been trying to persuade the Ashraf Ghani government to hush up the case, people familiar with the matter in Kabul and New Delhi said. ...SNIP...