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A man rides on an electric bike past residential buildings under construction in Beijing on June 5, 2023. China promised more help for renters as it rolls out a flurry of measures to prop up its ailing property market, while also promising to keep government spending at a “necessary intensity.” (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China pledges more help for its ailing property market, as IMF forecasts economy will slow

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

A visitor checks out the AI chatbot Ernie Bot via a laptop computer 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)

Congress warned to brace for threat of China’s AI in November elections

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video, assault boats take part in naval drills in Kaohsiung, Southern Taiwan on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024. Taiwan is holding spring military drills following its recent presidential election and amid threats from China, which claims the island as its own territory that it is determined to annex, possibly by force. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai)

China’s move on Taiwan could come even sooner than projected, U.S. commander warns

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Spectators wave Chinese flags as military vehicles carrying DF-41 nuclear ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing on Oct. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

List of Chinese military-linked firms in U.S. surges in latest Pentagon accounting

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping makes a toast after delivering his speech at a dinner marking the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sept. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool, File)

Chinese hackers target infrastructure; cyberattack efforts threaten to spread chaos, confusion

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Letterings are missing on a depiction of Evergrande properties across a China map at a partially shuttered Evergrande commercial complex in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group on Monday was ordered to liquidate by a Hong Kong court, after the firm was unable to reach a restructuring deal with creditors. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Order to liquidate property giant China Evergrande is just one step in fixing China’s debt crisis

By Elaine Kurtenbach and Zen Soo - Associated Press

U.S. Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Jen Daskal, left, shakes hands with Chinese Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong before a meeting 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. and China launch talks on fentanyl trafficking in a sign of cooperation amid differences

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

President Joe Biden greets China's President President Xi Jinping at the Filoli Estate in Woodside, Calif., Wednesday, Nov, 15, 2023, on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperative conference. (Doug Mills/The New York Times via AP, Pool)

Biden will speak to Xi Jinping soon, White House adviser says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia on March 20, 2023. China's muted reaction to the Wagner mercenary group uprising against Russia's military belies Beijing's growing anxieties over the war in Ukraine and how this affects the global balance of power. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

China linking with Russia, Iran and North Korea poses dangerous threat to U.S., former leaders warn

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

FILE - Visitors to the U.S. consular service line up outside the U.S. embassy in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 1, 2022. The Chinese government has protested to the United States over the treatment of Chinese arriving to study in America. Ambassador Xie Feng said in Washington on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024, that dozens of Chinese have been denied entry in recent months when returning to school from overseas travel or visiting family in China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China is protesting interrogations and deportations of its students at U.S. entry points

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Funafuti, the main island of the nation state of Tuvalu, is photographed from a Royal New Zealand airforce C130 aircraft as it approaches the tiny South Pacific nation. On Friday, Jan 26, 2024, the small Pacific island of Tuvalu head to the polls to select representatives for its 16-seat parliament. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Tuvalu’s prime minister reportedly loses his seat in crucial elections on the Pacific island nation

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This combination of photos shows U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, left, in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 16, 2024 and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, on Jan. 9, 2024. China sent more than 30 warplanes and a group of navy ships toward Taiwan, the island’s defense ministry said Saturday, Jan. 27, 2024. The military pressure comes on the heels of an announcement that senior American and Chinese representatives were expected to meet in the Thai capital as the two countries seek to cool tensions. (AP Photo, File)

Beijing steps up military pressure on Taiwan after the U.S. and China announce talks

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Polling officers count votes in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Jan. 13, 2024. Voters in Taiwan recently repelled a wave of disinformation seeking to undermine their democracy ahead of this month's recent election. Experts say Taiwan was able to rebuff China's efforts to meddle with their democracy by taking the challenge of disinformation seriously. In doing so, the island can offer lessons to the U.S. and other nations holding their own elections amid the threat of foreign disinformation. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

How Taiwan beat back disinformation and preserved the integrity of its election

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Seagate hard drives were sold to China's Huawei Technologies after the Commerce Department restricted exports of microchips or equipment containing microchips. (Associated Press/File)

Washington eyes giving new spy powers to Commerce Department

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

FILE - John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate of the United States, left, listens to Xie Zhenhua, Special Envoy for Climate Change for China, during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, May 24, 2022. Kerry and Xie are stepping down from their roles, marking a generational shift in the world of international climate negotiations. Activists and scientists hope that the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases continue finding ways to collaborate to prevent the planet from heating up to catastrophic levels. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

Kerry and Xie exit roles that defined generation of climate action

By Chris Megerian and Seth Borenstein - Associated Press

FILE - People wearing face masks walk by construction cranes near the office buildings at the central business district in Beijing, on March 15, 2023. China's leaders have mounted a campaign to build confidence in the slowing economy by freeing up billions of dollars in cash for property lending and other spending. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China doubles down on moves to mend its economy and fend off a financial crisis

By Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Government Spokesman Office, Thailand's Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, left, talks with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan at the government house in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024. (Government Spokesman Office via AP)

U.S. national security adviser will meet Chinese foreign minister as the rivals seek better ties

Associated Press

A Chinese high-speed train moves across a bridge over the Mekong River, north of the Laotian city of Luang Prabang on Dec. 12, 2023. Laos has grown increasingly beholden to its giant neighbor to the north with massive amounts of debt to Chinese state banks for multiple infrastructure projects, including a new high-speed rail line across the country, said Muhammad Faizal, with the Institute of Defense and Strategic studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore. (AP Photo/David Rising)

Tensions simmering in the South China Sea and violence in Myanmar as Laos takes over ASEAN chair

By David Rising - Associated Press

The Berklee College of Music sign is seen on a podium, Nov. 6, 2013, in Boston. A citizen of China who is a student at the Berklee College of Music was convicted Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, of threatening a person who posted a flyer in support of democracy in China, authorities said. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Music student from China convicted of harassing person over democracy leaflet

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