Your Friday briefing: Russia sentences Brittney Griner to 9 years

In addition, Chinese military tests threaten Taiwan and Australia is advancing a major climate bill.
We cover Chinese military exercises around Taiwan and the sentencing of American basketball star Brittney Griner.
ImageUSA Basketball player Brittney Griner stood in the defendants' cage in Khimki, near Moscow, on August 4 .Credit...Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters
Brittn ey Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russia "> A Russian court sentenced Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star detained in Moscow since February, to nine years in a penal colony for drug trafficking.
The guilty verdict, which most experts considered predetermined in a system legal proceedings whose defendants are rarely acquitted, leaves Griner's fate subject to diplomatic wrangling between Russia and the United States. The countries discussed the possibility of a prisoner swap that would bring Griner home in exchange for one of the world's most notorious arms dealers.

United States officials argue that Griner was wrongfully detained and held as a political bargaining chip. President Biden, who called the phrase 'unacceptable', now faces a stark choice between standing firm on his trade proposal.

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Your Friday briefing: Russia sentences Brittney Griner to 9 years

In addition, Chinese military tests threaten Taiwan and Australia is advancing a major climate bill.

We cover Chinese military exercises around Taiwan and the sentencing of American basketball star Brittney Griner.

American basketball player Brittney Griner stood in the defendants' cage in Khimki, near Moscow, on August 4.

Brittn ey Griner sentenced to 9 years in Russia "> A Russian court sentenced Brittney Griner, the W.N.B.A. star detained in Moscow since February, to nine years in a penal colony for drug trafficking.

The guilty verdict, which most experts considered predetermined in a system legal proceedings whose defendants are rarely acquitted, leaves Griner's fate subject to diplomatic wrangling between Russia and the United States. The countries discussed the possibility of a prisoner swap that would bring Griner home in exchange for one of the world's most notorious arms dealers.

United States officials argue that Griner was wrongfully detained and held as a political bargaining chip. President Biden, who called the phrase 'unacceptable', now faces a stark choice between standing firm on his trade proposal.