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It's April 26, 2023, and this is your DSR Daily Brief. I'm Chris Cotnor. Our top stories from international outlets this morning.

According to reporting from various news outlets, semiconductor supplies and Taiwan's straight tensions will be on the agenda of the US South Korea Summit this week, the White House said,

amid rising apprehensions on the two fronts between Beijing and Washington. Yesterday, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yool visited NASA with US Vice President Kamala Harris, agreeing to work together toward strengthening a space alliance between Korea and the United States.

President Biden and Mr. Yoon are expected to meet today to discuss the agenda, and Mr. Yoon will be a guest at a state dinner this evening.

We will continue to follow this story as it develops on the DSR Daily Brief and in the DSR Daily Newsletter.

The New York Times reports that with Biden's 2024 announcement, Kamala Harris will be under more scrutiny.

Harris was featured heavily throughout a video that President Biden used to announce his 2024 campaign on Tuesday, a strong signal that she will be a central part of his reelection efforts.

To her supporters, Ms. Harris 58 represents broad swaths of the American electorate that Mr. Biden does not.

She is a woman, she is biracial, and she is decades younger than the 80-year-old president, who would be 86 at the end of a second term.

But her detractors, who include both Republicans and Democrats, say she is unprepared for the scrutiny that is sure to come her way as she positions herself as the potential heir apparent to Biden presidency.

And some do not think the issues in her portfolio will appeal to the independent and moderate voters who tend to decide presidential elections.

According to Reuters, the U.S. House of Representatives could vote as early as today on a bill to sharply cut spending for a decade in exchange for a short-term hike in the debt ceiling, though it was unclear if it had enough support in the Republican majority to pass.

In the early morning hours on Wednesday, the House Rules Committee approved terms of debate for the bill on a partisan vote, a last step before sending it to the Full House Chamber, which could debate it either later in the day or later this week.

The Full House vote will be a test of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's leadership.

He has argued that passing the bill could force Biden to agree to negotiate spending cuts in exchange for lifting the federal government's 31.4 trillion dollar borrowing limit.

Elsewhere, the Washington Post continues its analysis of the Discord leaks. Russia's troubled space program very likely will diminish during the next decade as it faces increased global competition,

U.S. sanctions and the rise of SpaceX, which has eaten a large chunk of Russia's revenue, according to a leaked top secret U.S. intelligence document obtained by the Washington Post.

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