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The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building during an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022, at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York. As 191 countries approach the end to a four-week conference to review the landmark U.N. treaty aimed at curbing the spread of nuclear weapons, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and takeover of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant and rivalries between the West and China were posing key obstacles to agreement on a final document. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Nuclear treaty conference near end with Ukraine in spotlight

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A carter drives past a China Eastern airliner parked at the Beijing International Airport in Beijing, China on Aug. 29, 2007. The U.S. government is suspending 26 flights by Chinese airlines from the United States to China in a dispute over anti-virus controls after Beijing suspended flights by American carriers. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

U.S. suspends Chinese airline flights in COVID-19 dispute

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A woman wearing a face mask orders food at a sidewalk restaurant at a shopping and office complex in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. China is easing its tight restrictions on visas after it largely suspended issuing them to students and others more than two years ago at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

New bill would punish China for refusing to take back deportees

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this file photo, China's People's Liberation Army displays DF-26 ballistic missiles in a parade. (Associated Press/File) **FILE**

Air Force sees ‘incredibly’ large missile buildup by China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Uyghurs and other members of the faithful pray during services at the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, as seen during a government organized visit for foreign journalists on April 19, 2021. Under the weight of official policies, the future of Islam appears precarious in Xinjiang, a remote region facing Central Asia in China's northwest corner. Outside observers say scores of mosques have been demolished, which Beijing denies, and locals say the number of worshippers is on the decline. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

State Department: China using artificial intelligence programs to blunt criticism of Uyghur policies

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Rush hour traffic backs up along a highway in Beijing, China, on April 23, 2020. Hainan island in the South China Sea said Monday, Aug. 22, 2022 that it will become China's first region to ban sales of gasoline- and diesel-powered cars to curb climate-changing carbon emissions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Chinese province plans ban on sale of gasoline cars

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This photo released by Qinling Giant Panda Research Center, shows newly born twin Panda cubs, male at left and female at right, at the center in Xi'an, in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province on Tuesday, Aug 23, 2022. The male cub weighed 176.4 grams while the female cub weighed 151.2 grams when they were born at the on Tuesday morning, according to the Qinling Panda Research Center. (Qinling Giant Panda Research Center via AP)

Panda twins born in China as species struggles for survival

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Workers wearing masks stand near missiles produced by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp.displayed during the 13th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, also known as Airshow China 2021 on Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021 in Zhuhai in southern China's Guangdong province. China on Friday, Jan. 21, 2022 criticized Washington for imposing sanctions on Chinese companies the U.S. says exported missile technology and accused the United States of hypocrisy for selling nuclear-capable cruise missiles. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Commerce sanctions Chinese aerospace companies for military ties

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, right, poses for photos with Keiji Furuya, an ultra-conservative who heads a Japan-Taiwan parliamentarians group, in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022. Taiwan's president invoked an armed conflict from 1958 as an example of the island's resolve to defend itself while she met Tuesday with more foreign visitors amid the highest tensions with China in decades. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

Taiwan’s Tsai says self-defense resolve cannot be shaken

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb speaks with reporters after an Indiana Black Expo event at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom Davies) ** FILE **

Indiana Gov. Holcomb latest U.S. official to spark Chinese ire with visit to Taiwan

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A Taiwanese Air Force F16V fighter jet takes part in night drill from the Hualien Airbase in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Experts say a lot can be gleaned from what China has done, and not done, in the large-scale military exercises it held in response to U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, followed by Taiwan's own drills and Beijing announcing more maneuvers planned. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai, File)

China’s response to Pelosi visit a sign of future intentions

By David Rising - Associated Press

A woman wearing mask walks past construction warning sign during a rainy day in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Some were killed with others missing after a flash flood in western China Thursday, as China faces both summer rains and severe heat and drought in different parts of the country. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

16 dead, 18 missing in flash flood in western China

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In this June 15, 2020, file photo, the Voice of America building stands in Washington. The new chief of U.S. global media is plowing ahead with changes to the Voice of America and other international broadcasters that are heightening concerns about their future as independent news organizations. Although Agency for Global Media chief executive Michael Pack has assured Congress that VOA and its sister networks will remain independent and pledged he would consult lawmakers on significant developments, last week he initiated personnel changes and began a review of visas for foreign employees. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

VOA cancels Chinese-language programs on Taiwan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Visitors review new Asus computer products at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. The U.S. government has announced talks with Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, on a trade treaty in a new sign of support for the self-ruled island democracy claimed by China’s ruling Communist Party as part of its territory. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

U.S. to hold trade talks with Taiwan; island’s military conducts drills

By Johnson Lai and Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Tesla cars are parked at the construction site of the new Tesla Gigafactory for electric cars in Gruenheide near Berlin, Germany, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Biden’s electric car tax credit tough to collect: ‘Pulls the rug out from consumers’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Beachgoers walk near wind turbines along the coast of Pingtan in Southern China's Fujian province, on Aug. 6, 2022. The world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases are sparring on Twitter over climate policy, with China asking if the U.S. can deliver on the landmark climate legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden this week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China and U.S. spar over climate on Twitter

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

A boat moves through the water at 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) **FILE**

Beijing’s window to attack Taiwan comes sooner than plans to rebuild the U.S. Navy

By Brent Sadler and Jackson Clark

In this Tuesday, July 11, 2017, photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, ships carrying Chinese military personnel departs a port in Zhanjiang, south China's Guangdong Province. (Wu Dengfeng/Xinhua News Agency via AP) **FILE**

Chinese navy intel ship spied on RIMPAC

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Military personnel stand next to Harpoon A-84, anti-ship missiles and AIM-120 and AIM-9 air-to-air missiles prepared for a weapon loading drills in front of a F16V fighter jet at the Hualien Airbase in Taiwan's southeastern Hualien county on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022. Taiwan is staging military exercises to show its ability to resist Chinese pressure to accept Beijing's political control over the island. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

Taiwan, China hold opposing military drills amid tensions

By Johnson Lai - Associated Press

TikTok’s muzzling of conservatives accounts fans questions about Chinese influence

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times