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Pedestrians wait to cross a traffic intersection at the Central Business District in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. China's 2018 trade surplus with the United States surged to a record $323.3 billion but exports contracted in December as the delayed impact of President Donald Trump's tariff hikes started to depress demand. Global exports shrank 4.5 percent in December, reflecting weak consumer demand. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China to cut taxes, keep policy flexible to counter slowdown

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In this photo provided Jan. 12, 2019, by China National Space Administration via Xinhua News Agency, the rover Yutu-2 is seen in a photo taken by the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe on Jan. 11, 2019. China's space agency says it worked with NASA to collect data from the far side of the moon. The state-run China Daily said this was the first such collaboration since an American law banned joint space projects with China that do not have prior congressional approval. (China National Space Administration/Xinhua News Agency via AP)

China says it exchanged data with NASA on far side landing

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press

Members of the media walk across the tarmac to board Air Force One ahead of President Donald Trump's arrival at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday Jan. 14, 2019, en route to New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump seeks to sell shutdown, trade policies to farmers

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

FILE- In this July, 5, 2018, file photo photo, a ship to shore crane prepares to load a 40-foot shipping container onto a container ship at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. The higher costs resulting from the tariffs have yet to inflict much overall damage to a still-robust American economy, which is less reliant on international trade than most other countries are. Spurred by lower taxes, the economy grew at an impressive 3.4 percent annual rate from July through September after having surged 4.2 percent in the previous quarter. And employers added 2.6 million jobs last year, the most since 2015. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)

Chinese exports to US sank last month as tariffs took a toll

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

In this Jan. 1, 2019, photo, a worker pulls a roll of fabric at a dyeing factory in Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang province. China's trade growth slowed in 2018 as a tariff battle with Washington heated up and global consumer demand weakened. Exports rose 7.1 percent, customs data showed Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, down from the 7.9 percent reported earlier for 2017. Import growth declined to 12.9 percent from the previous year's 15.9 percent. (Chinatopix via AP)

The Latest: China ‘18 trade surplus with US at record $323B

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FILE- This June, 28, 2018, photo shows rolls of finished steel at a facility in Granite City, Ill. The president frequently boasts that the taxes he’s imposed on imports, steel and aluminum and nearly half of all goods from China, have showered the U.S. Treasury with newfound revenue. “We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs,’’ President Donald Trump tweeted last month. “MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN.’’ Yet the fact is that tariffs like Trump’s account for barely 1 percent of federal revenue. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Trade war’s wounded: Companies improvise to dodge cost hikes

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, ambulance vehicles and rescuers gather at the Lijiagou coal mine of the Baiji Mining Co., Ltd. in Shenmu City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019. Twenty-one coal miners were killed when a mine collapsed in northern China, state media reported Sunday. (Li Yibo/Xinhua via AP)

Coal mine collapses in northern China, killing at least 21

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Huawei fires sales manager who Poland charged with spying

By VANESSA GERA and KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, the screen at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center shows the lander of the Chang'e-4 probe, right, and the rover Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) taking photos of each other, Friday, Jan. 11, 2019. (Jin Liwang/Xinhua via AP)

China broadcasts spacecraft pictures from moon’s far side

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Trudeau says China not respecting diplomatic immunity

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2018, file photo, Adm. John Richardson, chief of Naval Operations of the U.S. Navy, speaks during a news conference with Philippine Armed Forces Chief Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr., following their meeting at Camp Aguinaldo in suburban Quezon city, Philippines. The U.S. Navy's top officer will visit China starting Sunday, Jan. 13, 2019, amid increasing frictions in the South China Sea and other issues underscoring their rivalry for dominance in Asia. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Top US Navy officer to visit China amid heightened tensions

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the Chennault Aviation and Military Museum in Monroe, La., shows an exhibit of artifacts from Maj. Richard Sherman, who flew 52 missions over China during World War II. Sherman was in the 11th Bomb Squadron of the Army's 14th Air Force under Gen. Claire Chennault, who nicknamed the 14th the Flying Tigers after the volunteer fighter group he had created while acting as a civilian advisor to nationalist China to defend that nation before the U.S. entered World War II. Sherman died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019, in Monroe. (Nell Calloway/Chennault Aviation and Military Museum via AP) **FILE**

WWII bombardier dies in veterans home, aged 96

By JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press

Chinese shoppers sort through merchandise at the Gap's flagship store in Beijing. Chinese leaders believe they are on the road to victory over the U.S. and will to do anything to get there. (Associated Press/File)

Donald Trump temporary to China in trade talks

By L. Todd Wood

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2008 file photo, a young girl mimics the pose of a Chinese Olympic athletes depicted in Coca-Cola advertising, at the Olympic green in Beijing. The International Life Science Institute, a group funded by the food industry, undermined China’s efforts to keep obesity rates in check by overemphasizing the importance of physical activity rather than dietary restrictions, according to a new paper. The group sponsored obesity conferences on exercise science with speakers including Coke-funded researchers and a Coke executive. ILSI says it does not profess to have been perfect, but that it has adopted stricter guidelines. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Dalziel)

Food giants undermined China’s obesity fight, scholar says

By CANDICE CHOI - Associated Press

A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard at the main entrance gate of the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2019. U.S. and Chinese envoys extended trade talks into a third day Wednesday after President Donald Trump said negotiations aimed at ending a tariff war were &quot;going very well!&quot; (AP Photo/Oliver Zhang)

The Latest: US, China leave future of trade talks unclear

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The global WannaCry 2.0 ransomware cyberattack highlights just one example of foreign intelligence threats.

INSIDE THE RING: Foreign hacker threat grows for private sector

By Bill Gertz

China officer says island fortification driven by threats

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

In this Dec. 8, 2018, photo, Adilgazy Yergazy, a farmer, holds up pictures of his detained younger brothers at his home in a village near Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry says China is allowing more than 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to abandon their Chinese citizenship and leave the country, a sign that Beijing may be starting to feel a mounting backlash against a sweeping crackdown on Muslims in its far west region of Xinjiang. Yergazy says two of his little brothers were arrested and taken to internment camps last year, and that one was recently released from the camps but is unable to leave China. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

China allowing 2,000 ethnic Kazakhs to leave Xinjiang region

By DAKE KANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 17, 2014, file photo, Taiwan Navy's Perry-class frigate fires chaff during the annual Han Kuang military exercises off the east coast of Hualien, central Taiwan. Taiwan's military has announced a series of newly designed large-scale military drills for this year in response to China's continuing threat to use force to gain control over the island. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

Taiwan announces new-look military drills to counter China

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China ambassador accuses Canada and allies of racism

By ROB GILLIES - Associated Press