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Good Wednesday morning! Here's what Nick Reed covers this morning:

Analysis of a California database of sex offenders shows thousands of child molesters are being let out after just a few months, despite sentencing guidelines.

South Korea’s military scrambled its jets after two Chinese and six Russian warplanes entered its air defense identification zone without warning early Wednesday morning.

Chinese officials and diplomats used the humiliating American withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 to portray the U.S. as an unreliable international partner and a 'declining power,' according to a Pentagon report released on Tuesday.

Facebook kicked us off Live (twice!) this morning because we started talking about China.