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U.S. Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Jen Daskal, center, walks with U.S. ambassador to China Nicholas Burns after a launch ceremony at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Daskal is leading an interagency U.S. delegation to Beijing to launch the U.S.-China Counternarcotics Working Group. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool)

U.S. engaged in ‘battle of ideas’ with communist China, U.S. ambassador says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A woman takes a souvenir photo with a floral decoration featuring China's space programs celebrating National Day and the 20th party congress in Beijing on Sept. 26, 2022. The U.S. is closely monitoring Chinese activities that potentially threaten American assets in space and is deeply concerned about the rapidly accumulating amount of space debris in low earth orbit, the head of United States military operations in space said Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) ** FILE **

China adopts ‘space coercion’ as strategic weapon in plan to attack U.S. satellites

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Migrants unload their items off a bus as they arrive at a bus stop after leaving a processing facility, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants were dropped off Friday at a sidewalk bus stop amid office parks in San Diego with notices to appear in immigration court after local government funding for a reception center ran out of money sooner than expected. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Border Patrol releases hundreds of migrants at a bus stop after San Diego runs out of aid money

By Elliot Spagat - Associated Press

Bai Yun, one of two giant pandas on exhibit at the San Diego Zoo, looks towards the crowd on Nov. 1, 1996, in San Diego. China is working on sending a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all the iconic bears in the U.S. were returned to the Asian country in recent years amid rocky relations between the two nations. San Diego sent back its last pandas to China in 2019. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy,File)

Black and white and adored all over. China pledges pair of pandas for San Diego Zoo

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

Gait recognition is just one part of China's major push to develop data-driven artificial intelligence surveillance. Artificial intelligence specialists warned the Defense Department on Thursday that China has caught up in the AI arms race and has even pulled ahead of America in some areas. The AI experts, who are working closely with the Pentagon, cautioned those attending a government-organized symposium on AI against overestimating America’s advantage in its high-tech competition with China. (Associated Press/File)

AI experts warn U.S. military: China has caught up to America in key areas of tech race

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, right, meets with Rep. Mike Gallagher, the Republican chair of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, center, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, D.-Ill., in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. A group of United States Congress members met with Taiwan's president Thursday in a show of support that's certain to draw scrutiny from China, which opposes such visits and sees them as a challenge to its claim of sovereignty over the island. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

U.S. Congress members praise Taiwan’s democracy in a visit that’s certain to draw China’s scrutiny

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FILE - Bai Yun, the mother of newly named panda cub, Mei Sheng, gets a mouthful of bamboo during the cub's first day on display at the San Diego Zoo on Dec. 17, 2003. China is working on sending a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all the iconic bears in the U.S. were returned to the Asian country in recent years amid rocky relations between the two nations. San Diego sent back its last pandas to China in 2019. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi,File)

China plans to send San Diego Zoo more pandas this year, reintroducing panda diplomacy

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

The interior of the I-Soon office, also known as Anxun in Mandarin, is seen after office hours in Chengdu in southwestern China's Sichuan Province on Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024. Chinese police are investigating an unauthorized and highly unusual online dump of documents from a private security contractor linked to China’s top policing agency and other parts of its government. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

An online dump of Chinese hacking documents offers a rare window into pervasive state surveillance

By Frank Bajak and Dake Kang - Associated Press

Pork-flavored coffee is Starbucks’ newest China pitch — at $10 a cup

By Staff - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker clears snow near the Turret of the Forbidden City following a snowfall in Beijing, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024. Heavy snow has blanketed northern and central China, disrupting traffic and forcing schools to cancel classes. (Ju Huanzong/Xinhua via AP)

Heavy snow in north and central China disrupts travel and schools and kills one person

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FILE - Hua Mei, the baby panda at the San Diego Zoo, peeks over a branch while enjoying a bamboo breakfast at the Zoo, on Aug. 15, 2000, in San Diego. China is working on sending a new pair of giant pandas to the San Diego Zoo, renewing its longstanding gesture of friendship toward the United States after nearly all the iconic bears in the U.S. were returned to the Asian country in recent years amid rocky relations between the two nations. San Diego sent its last pandas back to China in 2019. (AP Photo/Lenny Ignelzi, file)

Reigniting panda diplomacy: China to send a pair of pandas to San Diego Zoo

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, right, stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit meeting, Nov. 14, 2022, in Bali, Indonesia. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

China complains about U.S. treatment of its migrants, ‘major drug source country’ listing

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Protesters hold up blank pieces of paper and chant slogans as they march to protest strict anti-virus measures in Beijing, Nov. 27, 2022. Thousands of people demonstrated across China in what came to be called the White Paper movement, after the blank sheets of paper protesters used to represent the country's strict censorship controls. One year later, China has all but forgotten the protests. The state reacted quickly, breaking up the marches with arrests and threats and ending COVID-19 controls. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. urged to do more to counter China’s growing censorship system

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Anti-Trump union labor bosses versus workers illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Anti-Trump labor bosses declare war on their rank and file

By Peter Navarro

U.S. and Chinese national flags are hung outside a hotel during the U.S. presidential election event, organized by the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

Beijing engaged in ‘critical buildout’ of offensive cyber tools, FBI Director Wray warns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this handout photograph provided by Taiwan Coast Guard Administration, Taiwanese coast guards inspect a vessel that capsized during a chase off the coast of Kinmen archipelago in Taiwan, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The unnamed vessel had been sailing about one nautical mile off the coast of an islet of Kinmen island and was trespassing, said Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration. Four fishermen fell into the water and two survived and are in “good shape,” while resuscitation efforts on the other two failed, the vice director of the Coast Guard in Kinmen, Chen Jien-wen, told a local TV channel. (Taiwan Coast Guard Administration via AP)

China ‘slices the salami’ ever closer to Taiwan with latest clash

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

In this handout photograph provided by Taiwan Coast Guard Administration, Taiwanese coast guards inspect a vessel that capsized during a chase off the coast of Kinmen archipelago in Taiwan, Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The unnamed vessel had been sailing about one nautical mile off the coast of an islet of Kinmen island and was trespassing, said Taiwan’s Coast Guard Administration. Four fishermen fell into the water and two survived and are in “good shape,” while resuscitation efforts on the other two failed, the vice director of the Coast Guard in Kinmen, Chen Jien-wen, told a local TV channel. (Taiwan Coast Guard Administration via AP)

China’s coast guard to ramp up patrols near Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago after two fishermen die

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi delivers a speech at the Munich Security Conference at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. The 60th Munich Security Conference (MSC) is taking place from Feb. 16 to Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

Chinese foreign minister says trying to cut his country out of trade would be a historic mistake

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People tour by a dragon made of Lego blocks with the Lunar New Year theme on display at an outdoor shopping mall in Beijing on Feb. 15, 2024. At the start of the Lunar Year of the Dragon, China is seeking to assert its own interpretation of the cultural icon that dates back centuries in both Eastern and Western cultures. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

At start of Lunar Year of the Dragon, China seeks to assert its own interpretation of cultural icon

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Americans ignoring Chinese info war, Taiwan tech exec says; algorithms show digital armies’ march

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times