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Residents line up to be tested for COVID-19 in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province on Aug. 3, 2021. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

Lawmakers press Pentagon watchdog on federal funds to COVID-linked Wuhan lab

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

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

Associated Press

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) conducts routine underway operations in the Taiwan Strait, on Sept. 9, 2023. China accused the U.S. of abusing international law with its military maneuvers in the western Pacific, one day after an American naval destroyer sailed through the politically sensitive Taiwan Strait. (Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jamaal Liddell/U.S. Navy via AP, File)

China accuses U.S. of ‘abusing’ international law by sailing in Taiwan Strait and South China Sea

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Chow Hang-tung, vice chairperson of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Democratic Patriotic Movements of China, poses after an interview in Hong Kong on May 24, 2021. Hong Kong’s top court on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, restored a prominent detained activist’s conviction over a banned vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, marking the latest setback for the city’s democracy supporters. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu, File)

Hong Kong’s top court restores activist’s conviction over banned vigil on Tiananmen crackdown

By Kanis Leung - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center exchange gifts with U.S. Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla., left and Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif, right in Taipei, Taiwan on Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024. The co-chairs of the U.S. Congressional Taiwan Caucus are making their first trip to the island after an independence-leaning party won a third straight term in the island's presidential elections this month. arrived Wednesday. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

A U.S. Congressional delegation affirms bipartisan support for Taiwan in first visit since election

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

The U.S Capitol is seen on Jan. 8, 2024, in Washington. The chairmen of the top tax policy committees in Congress announced a bipartisan agreement Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024, to enhance the child tax credit and revive a variety of tax breaks for businesses, a combination designed to attract support from lawmakers of both political parties. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Congress looks to combat China with Taiwan provision in tax deal

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Chinese People’s Liberation Army cadets take part in a bayonet drills at the PLA’s Armoured Forces Engineering Academy Base, on the outskirts of Beijing. (Associated Press)

Report reveals new details of China’s biological weapons programs

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Test kit for human urine doping testing with A and B sample bottles are posed for photographs in London, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016. A 10-year global study of positive doping tests by children and young teenagers showed most sanctions came from Russia, India, and China and in weightlifting, athletics, and cycling. The World Anti-Doping Agency says diuretics, stimulants and anabolic steroids include stanozolol were the most commonly found substances. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Global study of doping cases involving minors points to Russia, India and China

Associated Press

Soldiers pose for group photos with a Taiwan flag after a preparedness enhancement drill simulating the defense against Beijing's military intrusions, ahead of the Lunar New Year in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan on Jan. 11, 2023. Taiwan says 103 Chinese warplanes flew toward the island in new daily high in recent times. Taiwan's Defense Ministry said that it detected the planes in the 24 hours ending at 6 a.m. Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Ceng, File)

Lightly defended beach highlights questions over Taiwan’s resolve

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Nurahun Osman, background, looks on as a woman attempts to catch a pigeon as they show journalists the damaged done to his coop during the earthquake in Yamansu township of Uchturpan county, Aksu prefecture in western China's Xinjiang region, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2024. As aftershocks continued to rock western China on Wednesday, thousands of people were staying in tents and other shelters, lighting bonfires to fend off the freezing weather. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Thousands of people are forced out of their homes after 7.1 quake in western China

By Ken Moritsugu and Ng Han Guan - Associated Press

In this image taken from video footage run by China's CCTV, rescue workers search through rubbles in the aftermath of a landslide in liangshui village in southwestern China's Yunnan Province on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. The landslide in southwestern China's mountainous Yunnan province early Monday buried dozens and forced the evacuation of hundreds. (CCTV via AP)

Chinese state media say 20 people dead and 24 missing after landslide

Associated Press

Chen Xu, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of the China to the UN Geneva, who is leading China's delegation, addresses his statement, during the U.N. Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Working Group meeting to review China's human rights record, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

Western countries press China on Hong Kong law, minority rights as U.N. body reviews its record

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Biden foreign policy boxed in by China, Russia, Iran and North Korea illustration by Greg Groesch / The Washington Times

How might China, Russia, Iran and North Korea plot to destroy America?

By Peter Navarro

In this photo taken from video provided by Joely Saligan, Chinese coast guard on rubber boats passes by a Philippine fishing boat at the disputed Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines on Jan. 12, 2023. A Filipino fishing boat captain said Tuesday that he asserted Philippine sovereign rights in a tense confrontation with Chinese authorities in the disputed South China Sea in a new spat that is testing efforts by Beijing and Manila to deescalate tensions in a potential Asian flashpoint. (Joely Saligan via AP)

Filipino fisherman to Chinese coast guard in disputed shoal: ‘This is not your territory — Go away’

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, center, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao, right, and supporters in Taipei, Taiwan on Jan. 13, 2024. Taiwan's incoming president is promising more of the same. The question is what that will bring, not only for Taiwan but also for its relations with China, the United States and others with an interest in the island of 23 million people that supplies many of the advanced semiconductors that keep the world running. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

China expected to step up coercion, provocations after Taiwan election rebuke

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Vote for democracy in Taiwan and not trust China illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

A vote for democracy in Taiwan

By Joseph R. DeTrani

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers search through a quake-affected area in Yamansu Township, Wushi County of Aksu prefecture, China's Xinjiang, Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. An earthquake struck a sparsely populated part of China’s western Xinjiang region early Tuesday, injuring people and damaging or collapsing scores of homes in freezing cold weather, authorities said. (Wang Xudong/Xinhua via AP)

7.1 magnitude quake rattles western China, killing at least 3 people and collapsing 47 homes

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Chinese President Xi Jinping toast during their dinner at The Palace of the Facets, a building in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia, on March 21, 2023. The EU is particularly disturbed by President Vladimir Putin’s plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus. That announcement was made just days after Xi and Putin met to cement their “no-limits friendship.” (Pavel Byrkin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

With an assist from Russia, China’s plutonium reactors fuel strategic arms buildup

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Taiwan not part of mainland China illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Taiwan has never been part of mainland China

By Mike Pompeo

United States and Chinese flags are set up before a meeting between Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, on July 8, 2023. China said the United States is the "biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability" in the world in a scathing response Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023 to a Pentagon report on China's growing military buildup. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool, File)

Congress probes government funding for U.S.-based AI researcher now working for China

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times