As residents of a hard-hit Philippine town were being guided onto a cargo plane during the height of the post-typhoon aid effort, one individual refused to be ushered in.
He was wearing tattered clothes but, suspiciously, had a brand-new camera. And he was using it to snap photos not of the evacuees he was with, but of the US military aircraft on the runway.
US and allied officials concluded that he was a spy for China.
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US-China spy games in storm-hit Philippines? Pacific power play simmers. | Alaska Dispatch