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Conservatives have been warning about TikTok for years

By Jeff M. Smith and Andrew J. Harding

A group of young people with mobile phones on the street. (File photo credit: carballo via Shutterstock)

Parents say TikTok algorithms killed their kids

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and Philippines' Secretary of Foreign Affairs Enrique Manalo shake hands during a joint press conference at the Sofitel Hotel in Manila, Philippines, March March 19, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Blinken underscores ‘ironclad’ support for the Philippines as it clashes with China in disputed sea

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

FILE - Workers produce car mats in a factory of car interior pieces in Yantai in east China's Shandong province on Feb. 21, 2024. China's manufacturing and investment improved in the first two months of the year, while weakness in the property sector weighed on the economy, the National Bureau of Statistics said Monday, March 18. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

China’s economy shows signs of improvement, but its property sector is still in the doldrums

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

A man walks along the road in the city of Handan in northern China's Hebei province on Feb. 28, 2024. Chinese authorities in the Feixiang district near Handan city announced three suspects have been detained over the March 10, 2024 gruesome murder of a thirteen-year-old boy, riveting users on Chinese social media and sparking debate over bullying and mental health in China's countryside. (AP Photo/Emily Wang Fujiyama, File)

Detention of 3 teens over gruesome killing of 13-year-old classmate sparks debate in China

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

China's Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, left, meets his New Zealand counterpart Winston Peters, in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, March 18, 2024. (Hagen Hopkins/Pool Photo via AP)

China’s foreign minister meets New Zealand counterpart, beginning trip that also includes Australia

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In this July 23, 2007, file photo, corn, far left, and soy beans carpet fields near Greenwood, Neb. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

House hearing scheduled to investigate China’s threat to U.S. agriculture industry

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Students line up to enter a school for the first day of China's national college entrance examinations, known as the gaokao, in Beijing, Tuesday, June 7, 2022. After the pandemic, young Chinese are again looking to study abroad. But the decades-long run that has sent an estimated 3 million Chinese students to the U.S. could be trending down. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File )

After the pandemic, young Chinese again want to study abroad, just not so much in the U.S.

By Didi Tang - Associated Press

A trade-in for iPhone XR promotion board is displayed as an Apple employee waits for customers at its retail store in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019. Apple has agreed to pay $490 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging CEO Tim Cook misled investors about a steep downturn in the iPhone's sales in China that culminated in a jarring revision to the company's revenue forecast. The preliminary settlement was filed Friday, March 15, 2024, in Oakland, Calif., federal court. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Apple to pay $490 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about iPhone sales in China

By Michael Liedtke - Associated Press

Visitors try out the AI chatbot Ernie Bot on the laptop computers at a booth promoting the AI chatbot during the Wave Summit in Beijing on Aug. 16, 2023. Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm Baidu on Thursday made its ChatGPT-equivalent language model available to the public, in a sign of a green light from Beijing which has in recent months taken steps to regulate the industry. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

Chinese government escalates its own push to police generative AI

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Devotees of TikTok, Mona Swain, center, and her sister, Rachel Swain, right, both of Atlanta, monitor voting at the Capitol in Washington, as the House passed a bill that would lead to a nationwide ban of the popular video app if its China-based owner doesn't sell, March 13, 2024. If some U.S. lawmakers have their way, the United States and China could end up with something in common: TikTok might not be available in either country. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

U.S. lawmakers see TikTok as China’s tool, even as it distances itself from Beijing

By Didi Tang - Associated Press

Chinese security personnel attempt to push Chinese journalists from the scene of an explosion in Sanhe city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. City officials in eastern China have apologized to local journalists after authorities were shown pushing them and trying to obstruct reporting from the site of a deadly explosion, in a rare acknowledgment of state aggression against journalists. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chinese city officials issue a rare apology after authorities harass journalists on live TV

By Simina Mistreanu - Associated Press

Military vehicles roll down during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. efforts to engage China labeled biggest strategic failure

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Rabbi Abraham Cooper, center, of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, speaks in front of civic and faith leaders outside City Hall, Thursday, May 20, 2021, in Los Angeles. A U.S. Congress-mandated group cut short a fact-finding mission to Saudi Arabia over officials in the kingdom ordering a Jewish rabbi to remove his kippah in public, highlighting the religious tensions still present in the wider Middle East. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

U.S.-mandated religious freedom group ends Saudi trip early after rabbi ordered to remove his kippah

By Jon Gambrell - 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 now leads the world in nuclear and conventional hypersonic missiles, U.S. intelligence warns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, center, smiles as she meets U.S. and Philippine business groups at Makati city, Philippines on Tuesday March 12, 2024. The United States is constantly assessing the need to expand export controls to stop China from acquiring advanced computer chips and manufacturing equipment that could be used to boost its military, Raimondo said Monday. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

U.S. hopes for Philippine chip capacity expansion look overly ambitious

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping adjusts his jacket as he stands to sing the national anthem at the closing session of the National People's Congress held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Monday, March 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s congress ends with a show of unity behind Xi’s vision for national greatness

By Elaine Kurtenbach and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, testifies during the Senate Armed Services hearing to examine worldwide threats, Thursday, May 4, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Intel chief: China’s economic woes increase danger of war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, signs a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, in the East Room of the White House, in Washington. China’s government welcomed an interim trade deal with Washington and said Thursday the two sides need to address each other’s “core concerns.” (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Trump stands by tariffs as a major trade tool against China

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Chinese FAW V2 car is displayed at the Moscow International Automobile Salon in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Aug. 31, 2012. The divide between China and Europe over the war in Ukraine was on display this week. As a Chinese envoy crisscrossed Europe for talks on ending the war, the Chinese foreign minster trumpeted the export of Chinese cars to Russia and Russian natural gas to China. The sharp rise in China-Russia trade is something the West sees as undermining its sanctions on Russia. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)

China trumpets rising car exports to Russia as its envoy holds talks in Ukraine

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press