China

Latest Stories

Illustration on Chinese entrapment of "fugitives" abroad by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Chinese authorities have coerced over 10,000 ‘fugitives’ to return from abroad

By Jianli Yang

Ding-Li after 40. Kg3.

A Long March in April for Ding Liren, China’s No. 1 chess star

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Residents line up to get their throat swab at a coronavirus testing site, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Beijing. China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

COVID outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown

Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, medical workers prepare to board a train to Shanghai at Nanchang Railway Station in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province on Sunday, April 3, 2022. COVID-19 cases in China's largest city of Shanghai are still rising with millions isolated at home under a sweeping lockdown, as the draconian "zero tolerance" approach to the pandemic increasingly draws complaints from residents fed up with the restrictions. (Peng Zhaozhi/Xinhua via AP)

China dispatches 2,000 troops to Shanghai as port city struggles with coronavirus

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

This image provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a B-2 stealth bomber flying over the Pacific Ocean, before arriving at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, in 2006. A B-2 stealth bomber crashed Saturday Feb. 23, 2008 at Anderson Air Force Base in Guam. The two pilots aboard the bomber ejected before the crash and are safe the U.S. Air Force said. A board of Air Force officers will investigate what happened. Each B-2 bomber costs about $1.2 billion to build. All 21 stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several of them through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force photo, Staff Sgt. Bennie J. Davis III)

Pentagon to scrap nuclear gravity bomb as part of Biden review

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A display of the fentanyl and meth that was seized by Customs and Border Protection officers is shown during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, in Nogales, Ariz. A Mexican national was sentenced Friday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking the largest amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl seized by U.S. authorities in 2021 and 2022. (Mamta Popat/Arizona Daily Star via AP, File)

States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising

By Geoff Mulvihill - Associated Press

FILE - EU and Chinese flags are seen at the Europa building in Brussels, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019. The European Union will seek China's assurances that it won't assist Russia in circumventing economic sanctions leveled over the invasion of Ukraine at an annual summit Friday, April 1, 2022. (John Thys/Pool Photo via AP, File)

China rejects sanctions as Ukraine war tops summit agenda

By Lorne Cook and Samuel Petrequin and Ken Mortisugu - Associated Press

In this Oct. 4, 2011, file photo, a core sample drilled from underground rock near Ely, Minn., shows a band of shiny minerals containing copper, nickel and precious metals, center, that Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, hopes to mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota. The Biden administration ordered a study Wednesday, Oct. 20,2021, that could lead to a 20-year ban on mining upstream from the wilderness. (AP Photo/Steve Karnowski, File)

Biden moves to incentivize domestic mineral mining for electric vehicle batteries

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, poses for photos with Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 24, 2022. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, March 31, 2022 issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi strongly backs Afghanistan at regional conference

Associated Press

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux) **FILE**

Gov. DeSantis takes on Disney over parental-rights bill in battle of Florida titans

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

A damaged building and car after recent shelling, in the center of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia war ends era of globalization that kept inflation low

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker from Zhejiang Province takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a COVID-19 testing site in Pudong District of east China's Shanghai, Monday, March 28, 2022. Chinese authorities sought to reassure companies and jittery investors on Tuesday as a two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people entered its second day, casting an unusual quiet over the normally bustling center of finance, manufacturing and trade. (He Zhongming/Xinhua via AP)

China tries to limit economic blow of Shanghai shutdown

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Clint Watts, president of Miburo, a research firm that tracks foreign disinformation operations, works at his desktop at company headquarters, on March 15, 2022, in New York. Some of China's state media reporters are identifying as travel bloggers and lifestyle influencers on U.S.-owned social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and YouTube, racking up millions of followers from around the globe. The Associated Press has identified dozens of these accounts, which are part of a network of profiles that allow China to easily peddle propaganda to unsuspecting social media users. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

How China’s TikTok, Facebook influencers push propaganda

By Amanda Seitz, Eric Tucker and Mike Catalini - Associated Press

A Disney cast member displays a Mickey Mouse pin on his shirt at The Center, an LGBTQ support organization, while participating in an employee walkout of Walt Disney World, Tuesday, March 22, 2022, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)

Gov. DeSantis rips Disney on China after company vows to fight Florida’s parental-rights bill

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, stands next to Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting deputy prime minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 24, 2022. China's ambitions to play a major hand in Afghan stability and economic development under the Taliban, while boosting its own regional stature, will be on display at a pair of multinational meetings it is hosting from Wednesday. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP, File)

China’s Afghan ambitions on show at multinational meetings

Associated Press

Illustration on Biden seeing the world during the Cold War as it is by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

This is not your father’s Cold War

By Peter Morici

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi greet each other before their meeting in New Delhi, India on Dec. 6, 2021. India is bracing for a disruption in Russian arms supplies following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tightrope walk between Moscow and Washington could become more difficult due to a border standoff with China. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Indian neutrality in Ukraine fight complicates U.S. strategic designs in Asia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks with U.S. troops, Friday, March 18, 2022 at an Army training range in Bulgaria. Austin was in Bulgaria to meet with U.S. troops and to consult with top Bulgarian government officials. (AP Photo/Robert Burns)

Biden boosts Pentagon budget, but GOP wants more

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Then-Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., at the time the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, joined at left by Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., questions National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019. U.S. lawmakers are investigating whether the Chinese government is attempting to control one of America's beacons of free market capitalism — Forbes Global Media Holdings. Republicans on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence began probing the issue in late 2021, according to government documents obtained by The Washington Times. "It is essential for you to be informed of any malign influence efforts related to your company and how such efforts impact American economic and security interests," then-Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, wrote in the letter. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EXCLUSIVE: House intel panel probing potential Chinese ownership, influence over Forbes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A health worker wearing a protective suit holds checklists as they walk out from a barricaded community that was locked down for health monitoring following the COVID-19 case detected in the area, Monday, March 28, 2022, in Beijing. China began its largest lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in its largest city of Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's &quot;zero-COVID&quot; strategy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years

Associated Press