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In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, a newly-built aircraft carrier is transferred from dry dock into the water at a launch ceremony at a shipyard in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning Province, Wednesday, April 26, 2017. China launched its first aircraft carrier built entirely on its own on Wednesday, in a demonstration of the growing technical sophistication of its defense industries and determination to safeguard its maritime territorial claims and crucial trade routes. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)

AP Explains: Why China’s new aircraft carrier is significant

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Marbury in talks with other clubs after Beijing Ducks era

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Air China resumes booking flights to North Korea

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FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2008 file photo Russia's Tatiana Chernova clears a hurdle in the heptathlon during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing. IOC said Monday, April 24, 2017 that Chernova was stripped off her bronze medal after a re-analysis resulted in a positive drug test. (AP Photo/Thomas Kienzle, file)

Russia’s Chernova stripped of 2008 Olympic bronze for doping

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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence waves as he gets into his car after arriving in Sydney, Friday, April 21, 2017. Pence will meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Saturday as part of his 10-day, four country trip to Asia. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

Pence reaffirms US-Australia alliance after Trump spat

By KRISTEN GELINEAU and KEN THOMAS - Associated Press

China, Philippines argue over defense chief’s island visit

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In this April 12, 2017 photo, Kerry Yang speaks about her struggles with depression during an interview in Beijing. Depression as an illness went widely unacknowledged for decades in China, even as the brutalities of the Cultural Revolution and, more recently, frenetic economic growth left emotional scars. Public attitudes shifted in recent years, propelled in part by the adoption of the nation's first mental health law five years ago. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Progress on depression slow in China as stigmas persist

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

In this April 12, 2017 photo, Kerry Yang speaks about her struggles with depression during an interview in Beijing. Depression as an illness went widely unacknowledged for decades in China, even as the brutalities of the Cultural Revolution and, more recently, frenetic economic growth left emotional scars. Public attitudes shifted in recent years, propelled in part by the adoption of the nation's first mental health law five years ago. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Progress on depression slow in China as stigmas persist

By MATTHEW BROWN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, April 17, 2017, file photo, Chinese dissident Zhang Xiangzhong is seen on a computer screen during an interview via videoconference in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan's return Zhang this week is seen by analysts as a possible bid by President Tsai Ing-wen to stabilize relations with Beijing. Officials in Taipei say Chinese national Zhang Xiangzhong lacked legal grounds to stay in Taiwan after breaking away from his tour group on April 13. Analysts say Tsai's administration may be hoping China responds in kind. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai, File)

Taiwan return of China dissident seen as bid for better ties

By RALPH JENNINGS - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 7, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after their meetings at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. After decades of failure to stop North Korea’s march toward a nuclear arsenal, some see Trump’s bluster as a shrewd attempt to press China, the North’s most important ally and trading partner, into pressuring North Korea more aggressively over its nuclear program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Nation by nation, how Trump has shaken up Koreas, neighbors

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

North Korean Nukes Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

War with North Korea is coming

By George H. Wittman

FILE - In this April 16, 2016 file photo, South Korean actress Kim Hye-Kyo, front, walks with Chinese actor Huang Xiaoming, right, as they arrive for the 4th Beijing International Film Festival held in Beijing, China. An organizer of the Beijing International Film Festival has denied that politics had anything to do with this year's lack of South Korean participants. South Korea's Yonhap news agency last month cited unidentified Korean industry sources as saying that invitations for some Korean films to screen during the April 16-23 festival had been revoked. However, Ai Dongyun, vice secretary of the festival organizing committee, said Friday, April 14, 2017, that films were chosen on merit and without consideration for national origin. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Lack of Korean films not political, says Beijing festival

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after their meetings at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., in this April 7, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping converge on currency, Syria as U.S.-China ties warm

By Matthew Pennington and Martin Crutsinger - Associated Press

President Donald Trump, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after their meetings at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., in this April 7, 2017, file photo. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Xi stresses China’s North Korea concerns in talk with Trump

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and GERRY SHIH - Associated Press

Li Ching-yu, center, wife of Taiwanese pro-democracy activist Li Ming-che detained in China, gives a press conference after she was denied boarding the flight to Beijing at the airport counter at Taoyuan international airport in Taoyuan, Taiwan, Monday, April 10, 2017. Li Ching-yu told reporters that airline staff told her Beijing authorities had canceled her Chinese-issued travel permit when she tried to check in on Monday. Li had hoped to fly to China to demand information about her husband who has not been heard from since March 19. The sign in Chinese says &quot;Release/free Li Ming-che.&quot; (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

China bars wife of detained Taiwanese activist from visiting

By GERRY SHIH and JOHNSON LAI - Associated Press

As President Trump prepares to host his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, a reversal has emerged: The U.S. leader is seen as a wild card, skeptical of trade deals. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump, Xi Jinping to meet at Florida summit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 22, 2016, file photo, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman speaks during a news conference in Las Vegas. The NHL is eyeing opportunities to crack the biggest market in the world: China. With the 2022 Olympics in Beijing following 2018 in Pyeongchang, the NHL and NHLPA see the country of a billion people as hockey's next frontier. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

NHL staging preseason games in China between Kings, Canucks

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In this Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, photo, Chinese players compete for the puck beneath a Chinese flag during a youth ice hockey tournament in Beijing. The NHL sees China as hockey’s next great frontier. With the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, China is eager to step up its game and the league is intrigued by the potential of a new nontraditional market with 1.3 billion people that might take to hockey like it did basketball. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

NHL poised to skate into China, hockey’s next frontier

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, left, waves from a Zwaardvis-class submarine during a visit at Zuoying Naval base in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, Tuesday, March 21, 2017. Tsai talks about the plan of manufacturing submarines domestically in a bid to enhance Taiwan's defense capabilities.(AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan announces plan to build own submarines

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In this March 15, 2017 photo, employees wait for customers at Lotte Duty Free in Jeju Island, South Korea. The once-cordial ties between South Korea and its biggest trading partner have soured as China targets businesses, sports teams and culture to protest deployment of an advanced U.S. anti-missile system in South Korea. (Jo Jong-ho/Yonhap via AP)

Candy, makeup, K-pop get doused amid China’s ire over THAAD

By YOUKYUNG LEE and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press