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China's Ambassador to Australia Xiao Qian speaks to media at China's embassy in Canberra, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. Xiao sought to reassure that China's increased involvement in the Pacific, particularly in policing efforts, should not be a cause of alarm for Australia. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Top Chinese diplomat says support of Pacific nations with policing should not alarm Australia

Associated Press

FILE - Sen Kevin Cramer, R-ND, speaks during a hearing, May 20, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington. A North Dakota sheriff's deputy was killed when a stolen SUV driven by the son of Sen. Cramer crashed during a police pursuit and struck a sheriff's vehicle, pushing it into the deputy, according to the North Dakota Highway Patrol and a statement from Cramer.(Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP, File)

Sen. Kevin Cramer’s energy tax would hit the poor, the old, those on fixed incomes

By Michael McKenna

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)

What a new president in Taiwan means for the island, China, the US and the world

By Emily Wang Fujiyama - Associated Press

Premier of China Li Qiang arrives to the opening of the Annual Meeting of World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. Chinese premier Li Qiang is visiting Ireland later on Tuesday for talks with the Irish leader on China's relations with the European Union and other global and bilateral issues. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Chinese premier Li Qiang is visiting Ireland for talks on China’s relations with Europe

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

China's competition against U.S. businesses illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The eve of Apple and Tesla’s destruction in China

By Peter Navarro

In this image from body camera video during the Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on Israel, a Hamas fighter holds a Russian-designed 9M32 Strela anti-aircraft missile. An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel shows the militant group has amassed a diverse patchwork arsenal of weapons from around the world – much of it smuggled past a 17-year blockade that was aimed at stopping just such a military buildup. (South First Responders via AP)

Hamas fights with a patchwork of weapons built by Iran, China, Russia and North Korea

By Michael Biesecker - Associated Press

In this photo released by Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), from left, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, former U.S. National security adviser Stephen Hadley, Taiwanese Vice-President and President-elect Lai Ching-te, who goes by William, Taiwanese Vice-President elect Bi-khim Hsiao, Director of the American Institute pose for a photo in Taiwan Sandra Oudkirk and Chair of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) Laura Rosenberger pose for photos at the DPP headquarters in Taipei, Taiwan Monday, Jan. 15, 2024. Retired U.S. officials have met with Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen and praised the island's democratic process that produced a new president-elect and legislature over the weekend in defiance of China's claim of sovereignty over Taiwan and threat to annex it by military force. (Democratic Progressive Party via AP)

Stung China warns as U.S. delegation meets Taiwanese President-elect Lai

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Tang Shuangning, then-chairman of China Everbright Group and Everbright Securities Co., talks to the press after the IPO for Everbright Securities at Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai, China on Aug. 18, 2009. The former chairman of state-owned Chinese bank China Everbright Group has been arrested on suspicion of embezzlement and bribery, prosecutors said in a statement Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, amid an intensified campaign against corruption. (Chinatopix via AP)

Former chairman of state-owned bank China Everbright Group arrested over suspected corruption

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

Supporters of Taiwan's 2024 presidential election candidate, Taiwan Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, cheer after Lai's victory, in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Ruling-party candidate Lai Ching-te has emerged victorious in Taiwan’s presidential election and his opponents have conceded. The result of Taiwan’s presidential and parliamentary election will chart the trajectory of relations with China over the next four years. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying) ** FILE **

‘High winds, strong waves’: China hammered by Taiwan election blowback

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, left, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. The Ruling-party candidate has emerged victorious in Taiwan's presidential election and his opponents have conceded. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Ruling DPP, the party with strongest stance against China, easily wins Taiwan election

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Poll officers seal ballot boxes at the end of voting in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Polls closed Saturday after Taiwanese cast their votes for a new president and legislature in an election that could chart the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy's relations with China over the next four years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Ruling-party candidate emerges victorious in Taiwan’s presidential election

By Christopher Bodeen and Simina Minstreau - Associated Press

Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te, also known as William Lai, left, celebrates his victory with running mate Bi-khim Hsiao in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024. Lai Ching-te emerged victorious in Taiwan’s presidential election on Saturday and his opponents conceded, a result that will chart the trajectory of the self-ruled democracy’s relations with China over the next four years. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Taiwan president-elect Lai Ching-te has steered the island toward democracy and away from China

By Simina Mistreanu and Adam Schreck - Associated Press

Protecting Taiwan illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Which countries should stand up for Taiwan, and when

By Ted Yoho

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock answers questions from reporters at a hotel in Makati, Philippines on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Germany's top diplomat said Thursday that China's aggressive actions in the South China Sea violate the rights of Asian coastal states like the Philippines and threaten freedom of navigation but added that the territorial disputes have to be resolved peacefully because "the world doesn't need another crisis." (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

Germany ready to help de-escalate tensions in disputed South China Sea, its foreign minister says

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Taiwan's Nationalist Party presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih, center, shakes hands with reporters during an international press conference in New Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Jan. 13. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

China looms over Taiwan’s voters in final days of heated election

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Taiwan Vice President and Democratic Progressive Party presidential candidate William Lai, center, delivers a speech during an election campaign in New Taipei City, Taiwan, Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Taiwan will hold its presidential election on Jan. 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

U.S. looks for Chinese meddling in Taiwan vote; ‘Gray zone’ tacties serve as preview

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Chinese drug companies poison America illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Chinese drug companies, not rogues, poison America

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo proved by the Defense Department, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China, Taiwan and Mongolia Michael Chase hosts delegates from China for the annual U.S.-PRC Defense Policy Coordination Talks at the Pentagon, on Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. U.S. and Chinese military officers have resumed talks that were frozen after former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan in 2022. It's a development U.S. officials have said is key to keeping the growing competition between the two great powers from turning into direct conflict. (Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza/U.S. Navy via AP)

No breakthroughs seen as Pentagon-China direct talks resume after freeze

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Protesters against the Chinese Communist Party dress up to depict authoritarian China and Winnie the Pooh representing Chinese President Xi Jinping, dressed as an emperor, and holding a Taiwan island cardboard cutout colored with the Taiwan flag in Taipei, Taiwan, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2024. Using military threats, diplomatic pressure, fake news and financial inducements for politicians, China is deploying a broad strategy to influence voters in Taiwan’s elections to pick candidates who favor unification. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s shadowy information-manipulation tactics aimed to erode Taiwan’s faith in democracy

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

A TV monitor in Taipei, Taiwan flashes news that a satellite launched from China passed over southern Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024. Taiwan’s defense ministry issued an alert Tuesday saying China has launched a satellite and urging caution days before the island's elections. (Kyodo News via AP)

Taiwan’s Defense Ministry mistranslates an alert, erroneously saying China launched a missile

By Simina Mistreanu - Associated Press