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FILE - In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers carry a piece of plane wreckage at the site of Monday's plane crash in Tengxian County, southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on March 25, 2022. The second “black box” has been recovered following the crash of a China Eastern Boeing 737-800 that killed 123 people last week, Chinese state media said Sunday, March 27. (Zhou Hua/Xinhua via AP, File)

Second ‘black box’ found in China Eastern plane crash

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

A military aide carries the "President's emergency satchel," also known as "the football," which contains nuclear launch codes, before boarding Marine One behind President Joe Biden on the South Lawn of the White House, Wednesday, March 23, 2022, in Washington. Biden is traveling to Europe to meet with World counterparts on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

Biden faces bipartisan blowback over forthcoming nuclear weapons policy

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on a new world order where Russia and China dominate by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The Putin and Xi New World Order

By Jed Babbin

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a rescue team member carries a piece of debris at the China Eastern flight crash site in Tengxian County in southern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Thursday, March 24, 2022. Hundreds of people in rain gear and rubber boots searched muddy, forested hills in southern China on Thursday for the second flight recorder from a jetliner that crashed with 132 people aboard. (Lu Boan/Xinhua via AP)

5 days after crash, 2nd black box eludes China searchers

By Ng Han Guan - Associated Press

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks during the House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on the administration's foreign policy priorities on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, in Washington. (Ken Cedeno/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Top GOP voice on foreign affairs slams plummeting federal espionage indictments

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, Feb. 4, 2022. The conflict in Ukraine is looking increasingly like the first major battle of a new Cold War — between the U.S. and China, as the Communist regime in Beijing largely embraced Russia's view of the conflict. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

Biden says China understands consequences of helping Russia in Ukraine war

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Intel CEO Patrick Gelsinger, right, presents Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine with a silicon wafer on Jan. 21, 2022, in Newark, Ohio, where Intel announced it will invest $20 billion to build two computer chip factories on a 1,000-acre site in Licking County, Ohio, just east of Columbus. (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)

Senate Republicans chip away at $52 billion incentive for semiconductor manufacturers

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, Feb. 4, 2022. The conflict in Ukraine is looking increasingly like the first major battle of a new Cold War — between the U.S. and China, as the Communist regime in Beijing largely embraced Russia's view of the conflict. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File) **FILE**

U.S.-China rivalry spurred by clashing agendas in Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. lags China, Russia in hypersonic arms race

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescue workers search for the black boxes at a plane crash site in Tengxian county, southwestern China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. A China Eastern flight 5735 carrying 123 passengers and nine crew members crashed outside the city of Wuzhou in the Guangxi region while flying from Kunming, the capital of the southwestern province of Yunnan, to Guangzhou, an industrial center not far from Hong Kong on China's southeastern coast. It ignited a fire big enough to be seen on NASA satellite images before firefighters could extinguished it. (Zhou Hua/Xinhua via AP)

One ‘black box’ found in China Eastern plane crash

By Ng Han Guan and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Passengers check in at the China Eastern Airlines rebook counter following a state media report that all 737-800s in China Eastern's fleet were ordered grounded, at the Kunming airport, in southwestern China's Yunnan province, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. No survivors have been found as rescuers on Tuesday searched the scattered wreckage of a China Eastern plane carrying 132 people that crashed a day earlier on a wooded mountainside in China's worst air disaster in more than a decade. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

What is known about the China Eastern plane crash

Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, file photo, Hunter Biden arrives at the inauguration of U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Hunter Biden says his service on the board of a Ukrainian gas company wasn't unethical and didn't amount to a lack of judgment on his part. But he writes in a new book, “Beautiful Things,” that he wouldn't do it again, citing partisan politics as the reason. (Win McNamee/Pool Photo via AP, File)

White House, intel bigs mum on Hunter Biden’s laptop after their Russian plot claims disproven

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Residents watch as a China Eastern passenger jet prepares to take off on a test flight from the new Beijing Daxing International Airport on Monday, May 13, 2019. State media are reporting a Chinese airliner from China Eastern with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, sparking a mountainside fire. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese airliner crashes with 132 aboard in country’s south

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Admiral John C. Aquilino, left, Commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), looks at videos of Chinese structures and buildings on board a US P-8A Poseidon reconaisance plane flying at the Spratlys group of islands in the South China Sea on Sunday March 20, 2022. A U.S. Navy plane carrying a top American military commander was threatened repeatedly by radio on Sunday to leave the airspace over Chinese-occupied island garrisons in the disputed South China Sea, but the aircraft pressed on defiantly with its reconnaissance in brief but tense standoffs witnessed by two Associated Press journalists invited onboard. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

U.S. admiral says China fully militarized isles

By Jim Gomez and Aaron Favila - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

Ukraine war is backdrop in US push for hypersonic weapons

By David Sharp - Associated Press

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks with reporters a briefing on the Russian Ukraine war, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Senate Republicans propose sanctions for Chinese firms that help Russia evade sanctions

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this file photo, China's military personnel perform near a display showing the navy's aircraft carrier in a segment of a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing on Monday, June 28, 2021. China sailed its newest aircraft carrier near a Taiwanese island in the Taiwan Strait on March 18, 2022, in a saber-rattling signal to the United States hours before a video call between President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

China sails carrier through Taiwan Strait in signal to U.S.

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Pedestrians walk over an overpass as a cloud of smoke raises after an explosion in Lviv, Western Ukraine, Friday, March 18, 2022. The mayor of Lviv says missiles struck near the city's airport early Friday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Live updates: Zelenskyy says 9,000 leave besieged Mariupol

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden meets virtually from the Situation Room at the White House with China’s Xi Jinping, Friday, March 18, 2022, in Washington. (The White House via AP) **FILE**

Biden warns China of consequences if it helps Russia in the Ukraine war

By Jeff Mordock and David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A man wearing face mask walks past some dinosaur models in the Central district in Hong Kong, Friday, March 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Hong Kong’s COVID infections exceed 1 million amid outbreak

Associated Press