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ROFF: The frightening emergence of government patent trolls

By Peter Roff

** FILE ** U.S. Pacific Command's Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III, talks to the media following a session on "Security Outlook" in the ongoing World Economic Forum on East Asia Friday, May 23, 2014, at the financial district of Makati city east of Manila, Philippines. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

China actively agitating, creating instability, says U.S. Adm. Locklear

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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China deploys armed drone to multinational drills

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healer: Pope Francis greets Lee Ho-jin, father of one of the more than 300 victims of the sinking of a South Korean ferry — most of them high school students — in Seoul. As part of his trip, Francis outlined his desire for greater relations with Asian nations, especially China. (associated press/L'osservatore romano)

Pope Francis calls for ‘fraternal dialogue’ with China, North Korea

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Pros and cons: "Mainland China is our largest land of opportunities, but they are the largest single, potential source of threat for us," says Shen Lyu-shun, Taiwan's top representative to the U.S. (Lloyd Villas/The Washington Times)

Taiwan’s top diplomat seeks U.S. help in emerging from China’s shadow

By Guy Taylor and Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Australia's Prime Minister Tony Abbott watch traditional Japanese drum performance at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. Mr. Abe's warm reception in Australia has angered China. (Associated Press)

Inside China: PLA commander replaced in Hong Kong

By Miles Yu

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a joint press conference with New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key as he starts an official visit to New Zealand, at Government House, in Auckland, New Zealand, Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/SNPA, David Rowland) NEW ZEALAND OUT

Inside China: Anti-Japan propaganda campaign backfires

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

U.S. climate change envoy Todd Stern said recent talks with China were "positive," but also said the two nations "talked a lot and agreed on little." (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Hot air in Beijing on climate change

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

North Korea announced Monday it would send 150 cheerleaders to the Asian Games. The goodwill gesture — which appears insignificant, if not comical, on its face — comes days after North Korea called for reunification with South Korea through a federal formula that would allow for the two countries to maintain their separate ideologies and social systems. (Associated Press)

North Korea seeks allies as China accord cools

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Representatives of the 2022 Olympic Games candidate cities, from left to right, Amanzholova Zauresh, vice-mayor of Almaty City representing Almaty 2022, Yang Xiaochao, vice-chairman of Beijing 2022, and Eli Grimsby, CEO of the candidate city of Oslo 2022, pose for photographers during during the announcement of the 2022 Olympic Winter Games candidate cities (Beijing 2022, Oslo 2022, Almaty 2022) after an executive board meeting, at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Monday, July 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Keystone,Jean-Christophe Bott)

2022 Winter Olympics candidates narrowed to 3

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FILE - In this Thursday, June 27, 2013 file photo, South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, and her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping wave during a welcoming ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Xi Jinping’s first visit to the Korean Peninsula as China’s president is to Seoul, not Pyongyang, meaning that North Korea’s best friend has snubbed it for its most bitter rival. A flurry of recent rocket and missile tests, the latest on Wednesday, has made the North’s displeasure crystal clear. (AP Photo/Wang Zhao, Pool, File) **FILE**

Chinese leader’s Seoul visit snubs North Korea

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

** FILE ** Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. (Associated Press)

Hacking indictments won’t hinder China talks, Treasury says

By Meghan Drake - The Washington Times

Since June 20, more than 750,000 Hong Kong residents have voted in a symbolic "civil referendum" in defiance of Beijing to protest eroding freedoms promised by communist-led China when the British handed over the city in 1997. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Inside China: Mountain of watery ire

By Miles Yu

Vietnamese protesters chant anti-Chinese slogans as China moves another oil rig closer to Vietnam's coast. (associated press)

Chinese oil expansion has Vietnam seeking American partnership

By James Borton — Special to The Washington Times

Illustration on China's slow expansion strategy against Vietnam by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CAO: China’s salami-slicing strategy

By Joseph Cao

FILE - In this July 21, 2012 file photo, Chinese people chat in front of an administration office building for the Xisha, Nansha, Zhongsha islands on Yongxing Island, the government seat of Sansha City off the south China's Hainan province. China is building a school on the remote island in the South China Sea to serve the children of military personnel and others, deepening the facilities in the city it created in its campaign to claim the world's most disputed waters. (AP Photo/File) CHINA OUT

China adding school to outpost in disputed waters

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

Dale Wen-Chieh Jieh, head of the department of policy planning within the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, meets with editors and reporters at The Washington Times. (Lloyd Villas/The Washington Times)

Taiwanese resist U.S. system to detect Chinese missiles, officials say

By Maggie Ybarra and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this April 23, 2009 photo, Chinese Navy helicopters and 528 warship attend an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy in the water off Qingdao of Shandong Province, China. China’s boosted defense spending this year grew 12.2 percent to $132 billion, continuing more than two decades of nearly unbroken double-digit percentage increases that have afforded Beijing the means to potentially alter the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific. Outside observers put China’s actual defense spending significantly higher, although estimates vary widely. (AP Photo/Guang Niu, Pool)

Chinese military growing in size and reach, Pentagon report shows

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

China says 29 arrested in anti-terror crackdown

Associated Press

A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard on Tiananmen Square while sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference are held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday, March 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

EDITORIAL: Remembering Tiananmen Square

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES