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President Donald Trump speaks during a briefing on drug trafficking at the southern border in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Wednesday, March 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Trump raises possibility of walking away from China deal

By KEVIN FREKING - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Red Star over the Pacific’ by Toshi Yoshihara and James R. Holmes

By Joseph C. Goulden

FILE - In this Jan. 29, 2019, file photo, National Security Agency director and head of U.S. Cyber Command Gen. Paul Nakasone testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington. Nakasone says the military learned a lot as it worked with other government agencies to thwart Russian interference in the 2018 midterm elections. He says the focus has turned to the next election cycle. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

US warns of sophisticated cyberattacks from Russia, China

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2017, file photo, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, center, along with Defense Minister Feng Shih-kuan, right, and Secretary-General of National Security Council Joseph Wu, left, cheer with navy officers during a visit to Zuoying Naval base in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan. China says attempts by Taiwan's government to block its goal of bringing the self-governing island under Beijing's control are like &quot;stretching out an arm to block a car.&quot; The new rhetorical broadside was launched late Tuesday, March 12, 2019 against Taiwanese President Tsai following her announcement of guidelines to counter China's &quot;one country, two systems&quot; framework for political unification with the island. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

China: Taiwan’s moves like ‘stretching arm to block a car’

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Shohrat Zakir, chairman of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, speaks during a group discussion meeting on the sidelines of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. China says heavily guarded internment camps for Muslims, which it calls vocational training centers, will &quot;gradually disappear&quot; if there comes a day that &quot;society does not need&quot; them. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China says Muslim ‘training’ centers will slowly disappear

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press

Ground crew chat near a Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane operated by Shanghai Airlines parked on tarmac at Hongqiao airport in Shanghai, China, Tuesday, March 12, 2019. U.S. aviation experts on Tuesday joined the investigation into the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jetliner that killed 157 people, as a growing number of airlines grounded the new Boeing plane involved in the crash. (AP Photo)

Criticism of FAA mounts as other nations ground Boeing jets

By RICHARD LARDNER and TOM KRISHER - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 14, 2017, file photo, United States Trade Representative-nominee Robert Lighthizer, foreground, looks at documents during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Lighthizer, the top U.S. trade negotiator, suggests that the U.S. and China are nearing an agreement that would end their trade conflict, but wouldn't commit to a specific time frame. &quot;Our hope is that we are in the final weeks of having an agreement,&quot; U.S. Trade Representative Lighthizer told the Senate Finance Committee. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

WH official: US, China in ‘final weeks’ of trade talks

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences surround an internment facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. A U.S. envoy on religion has described China’s internment of an estimated 1 million Muslims as a “horrific situation.” Ambassador-at-large Sam Brownback called for an independent investigation into the detentions and the release of those being held. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan/file)

US envoy calls China’s Muslim camps ‘horrific,’ wants probe

By JOHNSON LAI - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 5, 2019, file photo, U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton adjusts his glasses before an interview at the White House in Washington. Bolton told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo on Sunday, March 10, 2019 that China’s actions in the South China Sea are “completely unacceptable” and the U.S. will continue to pursue actions to prevent Beijing from turning the area into “a new Chinese province.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

In this image taken from video, rescuers search through wreckage at the scene of an Ethiopian Airlines flight that crashed shortly after takeoff at Hejere near Bishoftu, or Debre Zeit, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) south of Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia Sunday, March 10, 2019. The Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia's capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 on board, authorities said, as grieving families rushed to airports in Addis Ababa and the destination, Nairobi. (AP Photo/Yidnek Kirubel)

Airlines ground Boeing jet after plane crashes in Ethiopia

By ELIAS MESERET and YIDNEK KIRUBEL - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2018, photo, Serikzhan Bilash, a prominent activist campaigning against Chinese internment camps, gestures as he speaks to The Associated Press at a restaurant in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Bilash was arrested by Kazakh police at an Almaty hotel on Sunday, March 10, 2019 and taken to Astana, Kazakhstan's capital. The detention of hundreds of thousands and possibly over a million Uighurs, Kazakhs and other ethnic minorities in China's far west has been a touchy issue in neighboring Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Court puts Kazakh activist under house arrest

Associated Press

Family members arrive at Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Sunday, March 10, 2019, to check on information on the Ethiopian flight that crashed. An Ethiopian Airlines flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday morning, killing all 157 people thought to be on board, the airline and state broadcaster said. (AP Photo/Elias Masseret)

Correction: Ethiopia-Plane-Crash-The Latest story

Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2010, file photo, Bole International airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines flight with 157 people thought to be on board crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday, March 10, 2019 from Ethiopia's capital headed to Nairobi, the airline said. (AP Photo/Samson Haileyesus-file)

Correction: Ethiopia-Plane Crash story

By ELIAS MESERET and YIDNEK KIRUBEL - Associated Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivers remarks at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Thursday, March 7, 2019. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

EDITORIAL: Canada resists pressure from China to cave on support for Iran sanctions

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Total Factor Productivity Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Edging closer to a trade deal

By Scott S. Powell

China protests US criticism of policies on religion

Associated Press

FILE - In this April 18, 1959, file photo, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, center, arrives at Tezpur, Assam in India. Tibetan activists put up posters and hoisted a Tibetan flag in India's capital New Delhi on Sunday, March 10, 2019, to mark the 60th anniversary of 1959 uprising against Chinese rule. (AP Photo, File)

60 years after Dalai Lama fled, China defends Tibet policies

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

China's Central Bank Governor Yi Gang waves to photographers as he arrives for a press conference on the sideline of the National People's Congress at the media center in Beijing, Sunday, March 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s Yi affirms pledge to avoid devaluation for trade

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Vietnam says fishing boat rammed and sunk by Chinese ship

By HAU DINH - Associated Press

FILE - In this July 6, 2018, file photo, a container ship is docked at a port in Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong Province. China’s exports to the United States fell 14.1 percent from a year earlier in the first two months of 2019 as President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs chilled demand, while sales to the rest of the world also slid.(Chinatopix via AP, File)

Chinese exports fall amid US tariffs, weak global demand

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press