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Russian President Vladimir Putin watches the Vostok 2022 (East 2022) military exercise in far eastern Russia, outside Vladivostok, on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. The weeklong exercise that began Thursday is intended to showcase growing defense ties between Russia and China and also demonstrate that Moscow has enough troops and equipment to conduct the massive drills even as its troops are engaged in military action in Ukraine. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin attends joint military drills with China, others

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, fallen rocks are seen on a road near Lengqi Town in Luding County of southwest China's Sichuan Province Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. A strong earthquake killed multiple people, triggered landslides and shook residents in a major city under lockdown in southwestern China on Monday, state media reported. (Xinhua via AP)

Southwest China quake leaves 21 dead, triggers landslides

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China Oil Grab against Iraq Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Iraq worried about China’s control over oil

By Jianli Yang

Biden and Democrats elections takover Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Informed voters and honest elections are left’s worst nightmare

By Robert Knight

People wearing face masks wait in line to get their routine COVID-19 throat swabs at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China locks down 65 million as holiday travel peak looms

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In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen is briefed during a visit to a naval station on Penghu, an archipelago of several dozen islands off Taiwan's western coast on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. On Sept. 2, 2022, President Biden approved the largest arms sale to Taiwan under his administration, as tensions continue to heighten between the United States and China. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

Biden approves $1.1 billion arms sale to Taiwan amid growing tensions with Beijing

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Uyghur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, Nov. 4, 2017. China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, which cited &quot;serious&quot; rights violations and patterns of torture in recent years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Beijing taps into anti-West resentment to counter UN report

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

President Joe Biden is shown here speaking at Wilkes University, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. .(AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden to host U.S.-Pacific Island summit amid heightened tensions with Beijing

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Visitors stop by the booth of Nvidia at the Apsara Conference, an annual cloud service technology forum hosted by Alibaba Group, in Hangzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. The Chinese government on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022, called on Washington to repeal its technology export curbs after chip designer Nvidia Corp. said a new product might be delayed and some work might be moved out of China. (Chinatopix Via AP)

China demands U.S. drop tech export curbs after Nvidia warning

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this image from video, Zumret Dawut, a Uighur from China's western Xinjiang region who forcibly sterilized for having a third child after being released from a Xinjiang detention camp, looks at documents at her home in Woodbridge, Va., on Monday, June 15, 2020. For Dawut and other camp survivors who spoke out, the U.N.'s report on the mass detentions and other rights abuses against Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang was the culmination of years of advocacy, and a much-welcome acknowledgement of the abuses they say they faced at the hands of the Chinese state. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren, File)

For exiled Uyghurs, UN report is long-awaited vindication

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

Residents watch a convoy of security personnel armed with batons and shields patrol through central Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region, Nov. 5, 2017. China's discriminatory detention of Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic groups in the western region of Xinjiang may constitute crimes against humanity, the U.N. human rights office said in a long-awaited report Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, which cited &quot;serious&quot; rights violations and patterns of torture in recent years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

To China’s fury, U.N. accuses Beijing of Uyghur rights abuses

By Ken Moritsugu and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Wall Street funding China illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

Wall Street continuing to fund China’s military ambitions

By Robby Stephany Saunders

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the Long March 5B Y3 carrier rocket, carrying Wentian lab module blasts off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Wenchang in southern China's Hainan Province Sunday, July 24, 2022. On a hot Sunday afternoon, with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching, China launched the Wentian lab module from tropical Hainan Island. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP)

China’s space power to promote communism

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office for Utah and introduced as evidence at a trial shows fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation. (U.S. Attorneys Office for Utah via AP, File)

China shuts down counter-drug talks with U.S., fueling fears of more overdose deaths

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen is briefed during a visit to a naval station on Penghu, an archipelago of several dozen islands off Taiwan's western coast on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. Tsai told the self-ruled island's military units Tuesday to keep their cool in the face of daily warplane flights and warship maneuvers by rival China, saying that Taiwan will not allow Beijing to provoke a conflict. visit to the She also inspected a radar squadron, an air defense company, and a navy fleet. (Taiwan Ministry of National Defense via AP)

Taiwan forces fire at drones flying over island near China

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President Joe Biden walks toward Air Force One with Col. Matthew Jones, Commander, 89th Airlift Wing, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden to ask Congress for $1.1 billion arms deal for Taiwan: Reports

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Globalization by China Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

If America refuses to lead globalization, China will

By Peter Morici

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Troops disembark from a Chinese military helicopter during joint war games held by Russia and China held in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in northwestern China on Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Russia said Monday it will launch sweeping war games drills in the country's east that will involve forces from China — a show of increasingly close military ties between Moscow and Beijing amid tensions with the West over the Kremlin's action in Ukraine. (Savitskiy Vadim/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

Russia to hold sweeping joint war games with China, others

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Ships move through the Taiwan Strait as seen from the 68-nautical-mile scenic spot, the closest point in mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in Pingtan in southeastern China's Fujian Province, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. China conducted &quot;precision missile strikes&quot; Thursday in waters off Taiwan's coasts as part of military exercises that have raised tensions in the region to their highest level in decades following a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Taiwan Strait war could lead to undersea internet cables cutoff, costly shipping disruptions: Report

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) is underway off the coast of Japan near Mt. Fuji. Antietam is on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, Nov. 22, 2014. The U.S. Navy is sailing the USS Antietam and the USS Chancellorsville warships through the Taiwan Strait Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time where tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy. (Mass Communication Specialist Seaman David Flewellyn/U.S. Navy via AP)

China tensions surge again as U.S. warships sail through Taiwan Strait after Pelosi visit to island

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times