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North Korean state media say China dancing to US tune

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Years of failed efforts to stem North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs have followed a usual pattern. The United States seeks tougher action from China, the North’s traditional ally. Beijing urges U.S. diplomatic engagement. (Associated Press/File)

Analysis: As China ups heat on NKorea, US faces questions

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang appeals to Trump to avoid ‘trade war’

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Chinese President Xi Jinping stands during a gift handover ceremony at the at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Denis Balibouse/ Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Donald Trump reaffirms ‘one China’ policy in call with Xi Jinping

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping stands during a gift handover ceremony at the at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Denis Balibouse/ Pool via AP) ** FILE **

China praises Donald Trump letter to Xi Jinping, belated well-wishes

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FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2017 file photo, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. The new U.S. administration is heating up rhetoric over the South China Sea with a promise to challenge China’s occupation of disputed islands. Beijing is responding cautiously , appealing for calm and direct negotiations involving claimants. Spicer said “the U.S. is going to make sure that we protect our interests there.” His comments came just weeks after President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, caused some consternation when he told his Senate confirmation hearing that the U.S. should deny China access to its seven man-made islands. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By HRVOJE HRANJSKI - Associated Press

Residents set off fireworks on the eve of Lunar New Year in Beijing, China, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017. Chinese worldwide celebrate the Year of the Rooster on Jan 28, 2017 with family reunions and fireworks. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China marks Lunar New Year with prayers, incense, fireworks

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Children play as villagers gather to make dumplings ahead of the Chinese lunar new year at a village on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2017. Chinese in mainland China hand make and eat dumplings to mark the start of the Year of the Rooster on Jan 28, 2017. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese Lunar New Year feast begins with drums and dumplings

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this Jan. 9, 2017 photo, Zou Yi snaps a photo of the central business district, a daily ritual he has performed over four years to document the city's air quality, from his apartment in Beijing. There is no quick fix to the Chinese capital’s dirty skies, so Beijing residents are finding ways to cope with and adapt to the air pollution. In doing so, some residents are coming up with technological innovations they hope will make people more aware of the air they are breathing in around the world. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Smog pushes Beijing residents to innovate for the world

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

As the Chinese protects claims of sovereignty in the South China Sea, the Trump administration will "send a clear signal that, first, the island-building stops and, second, [China's] access to those islands also is not going to be allowed," secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson said. (Associated Press)

Trump’s change of course in Asia challenges China, Obama’s pivot

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

This image provided by the U.S. Navy, taken Oct. 17, 2016, shows the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur, right, pulling into position behind the Military Sealift Command USNS Matthew Perry, during a replenishment-at-sea, seen from the bridge of the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance, in the South China Sea. The Defense Department says a U.S. Navy warship has conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, where China and five other countries have competing territorial claims. A department spokesman, Navy Cmdr. Gary Ross, said the destroyer ship USS Decatur conducted the transit operation Friday, Oct. 21, 2016, near the Paracel Islands. (U.S. Navy/Petty Officer 2nd Class Will Gaskill via AP)

China warns U.S. against ‘undermining’ stability in South China Sea

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Donald Trump’s 45 percent tariff on China

By Peter Morici

Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, "Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room. Wind and rain may be kept outside, but so are light and air." (Associated Press)

Xi vs. Trump: Chinese leader praises globalization, warns of trade wars at tony Davos summit

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this April 21, 2015, file photo, a U.S. Navy's amphibious assault vehicle with Philippine and U.S. troops on board storms the beach at a combined assault exercise at a beach facing one of the contested islands in the South China Sea known as the Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea at the Naval Education and Training Command at San Antonio township. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By HRVOJE HRANJSKI - Associated Press

In this Dec. 12, 2016 photo, a man walks out from a main screening hall of the Digital Cinema in Zhuolu county in north China's Hebei province. The brightly-decorated 3-D cinema in this town outside Beijing is showing the latest Chinese and Hollywood films, to row after row of empty red seats. So few people come to watch films here that the theater manager rents out the halls to travelling sales companies or music teachers. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China overtakes US in screens but cinemas sit empty

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2008, file photo, Cao Lei, of China, holds up her gold medal in the women's 75 kg. of the weightlifting competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China. IOC has stripped Olympic gold medals from three Chinese women weightlifters for doping at their home 2008 Beijing Games. The IOC says all three Chinese weightlifters tested positive for the banned growth hormone GHRP-2. They were: Cao Lei in the 75-kilogram class; Chen Xiexia in the 48kg class; and Liu Chunhonog at 69kg, it was reported on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton, file)

3 Chinese weightlifters lose 2008 Olympic titles for doping

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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is anchored in the northern port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. Taiwan's defense ministry said China's sole aircraft carrier on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 was transiting the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between the mainland and self-governing island it claims as its own territory. (Wu Dengfeng/Xinhua via AP, File)

China says committed to peace as carrier passes near Taiwan

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

The Liaoning, China's sole aircraft carrier, held drills in the South China Sea before steaming through a restricted area in the strait between the mainland and Taiwan. (Associated Press)

China tests Donald Trump with Taiwan breach

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas gestures while speaking at the Federalist Society's National Lawyers Convention, in Washington, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen) ** FILE **

China warns after Ted Cruz, Greg Abbott meet Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen

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Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech before traveling to visit Central American allies including a U.S. transit, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2017, at the Taoyuan International Airport in Taouyuan, Taiwan. Tsai pledged to bolster Taiwan's presence on the international stage on her visit four Central American allies on a trip that includes U.S. transits and looks set to raise China's ire. (Central News Agency via AP)

Taiwan leader heads to Americas; US stops set to irk China

By GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press