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Germany's Dominik Schwaiger races during a men's World Cup downhill training run Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, in Beaver Creek, Colo. (AP Photo/John Locher)

World Cup? China Cup is more like it

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing, Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China's powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese users play cat-and-mouse with censors amid protests

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the light trail of the launched manned spaceship Shenzhou-15, atop the Long March-2F Y15 carrier rocket after it blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. China launched the rocket Tuesday carrying three astronauts to complete construction of the country's permanent orbiting space station. (Ren Junchuan/Xinhua via AP)

China rapidly building space arms to ‘blind and deafen’ U.S. military, Pentagon says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

New members of the Politburo Standing Committee, from left, Li Xi, Cai Qi, Zhao Leji, President Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Wang Huning, and Ding Xuexiang are introduced at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

The Life of the Party: Xi’s new Politburo and China’s technological ambitions

By Michael Cunningham and Ilan Hulkower

In this Sept. 12, 2017, file photo, attendees walk past an electronic display showing recent cyberattacks in China at the China Internet Security Conference in Beijing. Tech experts in China who find a weakness in computer security would be required to tell the government instead of publicizing it under rules announced Tuesday, July 13, 2021, as part of the ruling Communist Party’s sweeping effort to tighten control over information. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Chinese military’s future warfare will aspire to ‘information dominance,’ Pentagon warns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Protesters hold up blank white papers during a commemoration for victims of a recent Urumqi deadly fire in Central in Hong Kong, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022. Students in Hong Kong chanted “oppose dictatorship” in a protest against China’s anti-virus controls after crowds in mainland cities called for President Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of opposition to the ruling Communist Party in decades. (AP Photo/Zen Soo)

History As It Happens: Voices of China

By Martin Di Caro

Former Chinese President Jiang Zemin attends the opening session of the 18th Communist Party Congress on Nov. 8, 2012, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Jiang Zemin, China’s former leader who guided his nation’s rise, dies

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Democracy advocate Jimmy Lai leaves Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal where the government is arguing against allowing him bail in Hong Kong, Feb. 1, 2021. Lai broke into the media industry about 30 years ago armed with the belief that delivering information equates with delivering freedom. Lai now is accused of endangering national security with his now-defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Hong Kong publisher’s national security trial postponed

By Kanis Leung

Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Protests against China's strict "zero-COVID" policies resurfaced in Shanghai and Beijing on Sunday afternoon, continuing a round of demonstrations that have spread across the country since a deadly apartment fire in the northwestern city of Urumqi led to questions over such rigid anti-virus measures. (AP Photo)

China doubles down on harsh COVID controls and tries to end protests

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden and protests in China by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden should support Chinese protesters and dissidents

By Stephen Yates and Christian Whiton

Kristalina Georgieva, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

IMF chief urges targeted COVID policy in China: AP interview

By David McHugh - Associated Press

Former Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, standing at rear, speaks during a censure motion against him in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Morrison has listed his achievements in government including standing up to a &quot;bullying&quot; China as he unsuccessfully argued against being censured by the Parliament for secretly amassing multiple ministerial powers. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian Parliament censures former prime minister

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

A man places a mask over the eyes of the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard as close to 100 students and faculty demonstrated against strict anti-virus measures in China, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Protests in China, which were the largest and most wide spread in the nation in decades, included calls for Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to step down. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Harvard students show solidarity with Chinese protesters

By Mark Pratt - Associated Press

In this file photo, China's People's Liberation Army displays DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade. Over just the past several months, major revelations about the extent of China's hypersonic weapons capabilities, its nuclear arms stockpile, and even the size of its navy have sparked concerns that Washington may not have a full window into exactly what its 21st-century rival has up its sleeve, or what may be under development deep inside the communist nation. (Associated Press/File)

China on pace to match U.S. nuclear stockpile by 2035, Pentagon warns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 4, 2020, file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg talks to supporters in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Privileged billionaire Michael Bloomberg needs to apologize to the Chinese people

By Jeff Smith and Michael Cunningham

Chinese police officers block off access to a site where protesters had gathered in Shanghai on Sunday, Nov. 27, 2022. Protests against China's strict &quot;zero-COVID&quot; policies resurfaced in Shanghai and Beijing on Sunday afternoon, continuing a round of demonstrations that have spread across the country since a deadly apartment fire in the northwestern city of Urumqi led to questions over such rigid anti-virus measures. (AP Photo)

Twitter downloads up in China but spam overwhelms searches for COVID lockdown protest news

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship sails near a Philippine Coast Guard vessel during its patrol at Bajo de Masinloc, 124 nautical miles west of Zambales province, northwestern Philippines on March 2, 2022. The Philippines has sought an explanation from China after a Filipino military commander reported that the Chinese coast guard forcibly seized Chinese rocket debris in the possession of Filipino navy personnel in the disputed South China Sea, officials said Thursday, Nov. 24, 2022. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

U.S. dismisses China objections to South China Sea mission

Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, an image captured off a screen at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China shows the Shenzhou-15 and Shenzhou-14 crew taking a group picture with their thumbs up after a historic gathering in space on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. Three Chinese astronauts docked early Wednesday with their country's space station, where they will overlap for several days with the three-member crew already onboard and expand the facility to its maximum size. (Guo Zhongzheng/Xinhua via AP)

Chinese spaceship with 3 aboard docks with space station

Associated Press

Amanalla Kashgari, of Ashburn Va., with the East Turkistan Youth Congress, protests against China and in support of the Uyghur people, in the wake of the Urumqi fire in China, Monday, Nov. 28, 2022, outside the State Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) **FILE**

White House resists criticism of China’s crackdown on COVID protesters, GOP calls for tougher stance

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 23, 2022. Barely a month after granting himself new powers as China’s possible leader for life, Xi is facing a wave of public anger of the kind not seen for decades, sparked by his draconian “zero-COVID” program that will soon enter its fourth year. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s Xi faces threat from public anger over ‘zero COVID’

By Dake Kang - Associated Press