China

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A container ship from China is docked at Massport's Conley Terminal in Boston on Friday, July 13, 2012. The U.S. trade deficit widened in August as exports fell to the lowest level in six months, a worrisome sign that a slowing global economy is cutting into demand for U.S. goods (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Anti-Japan demonstrators overturn a Japanese-made car in Suzhou, China, last month after Japan nationalized islands that both nations claim but Japan controls. Sales of Japanese-made vehicles nose-dived in China, and a new report predicts a 70 percent drop October through December. (The Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers (left), Michigan Republican, who is House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland Democrat, who is his party's ranking member on the panel, confer on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after releasing a report on an 11-month probe of China’s two leading technology firms, Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. The report warns that the two telecommunications makers pose a major security threat to the U.S. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: China by M. Ryder for The Washington Times

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Illustration: China by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

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The newly commissioned Liaoning is China’s first aircraft carrier. It was put into service on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, underscoring the country’s ambitions to be a leading Asian naval power, although no warplanes have been seen taking off from or landing on the ship — making its current utility as a strategic power projection tool questionable. (Associated Press)

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Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects the guard of honor on the aircraft carrier Liaoning at a naval base in Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning province on Tuesday. China formally entered its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Police in anti-riot suits cordon off a road near Foxconn's plant in Taiyuan, China, in this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, mobile phone photo. A brawl by as many as 2,000 Foxconn employees at a nearby dormitory injured 40 people. (AP Photo)

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“Losing a piece of our territory eventually means losing the whole country,” says Shigeru Ishiba, a former defense minister and now one of the prime minister candidates of the Liberal Democratic Party, referring the land disputes with China in the South China Sea. (Associated Press)

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center) shakes hands with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool)