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FILE - In this Monday, March 5, 2018, file photo, a Vietnamese passenger boat sails past U.S aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson as it docks in Danang Bay, Vietnam. Over this last week, China demanded the United States stop sending ships and military aircraft close to its South China Sea island claims during talks to prepare for a meeting between President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping later this month. (AP Photo/ Hau Dinh, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Candidates of Taipei mayoral election, from left, Li Hsi-kun, incumbent mayor Ko Wen-je, Pasuya Yao of Democratic Progressive Party, Ting Shou-chung of Nationalist Party and Wu E-yang, pose for a picture at the start of their televised policy debate in Taipei, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. Li and Wu are independent candidates. The candidates vying to become the mayor of Taiwan’s capital, Taipei, faced off in a televised debate on Saturday, two weeks before a host of local elections seen as a barometer of the ruling party’s popularity. (Pool Photo via AP)

Taipei mayor candidates face off in televised debate

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, shakes hands with Chinese Politburo Member Yang Jiechi at the conclusion of a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

China, US sparring continues over South China Sea

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

In this Nov. 7, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in the East Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s election fiction on GOP wins, economy

By HOPE YEN and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER - Associated Press

A board makes a milestone of sales passing the RMB10 billion or US$1.4 billion mark minutes into the start of Alibaba's 11.11 Global Shopping Festival held in Shanghai, China, early Sunday, Nov. 11, 2018. What started out ten years ago as a day of online promotion with US$7.8million in sales has grown into the world's biggest e-commerce event generating US$25.3billion in 2017. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China’s annual shopping frenzy shatters records again

By WAI-BOR WONG and YANAN WANG - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, meets Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

China warns US to avoid islands it claims in South China Sea

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 14, 2018, file photo, The Financial Times Asia news editor, Victor Mallet speaks during a luncheon at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong. The Asia editor of the Financial Times has been refused entry to Hong Kong, weeks after the semi-autonomous Chinese territory refused to renew his work visa. The newspaper reported that Mallet was turned away at the border on Thursday, Nov. 8, after being questioned for several hours.(Pool Photo via AP, File)

Financial Times editor refused entry to Hong Kong

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In this photo from Tuesday, April 24, 2018 , US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron embrace at the conclusion of a news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File) **FILE**

Trump slams France’s Macron over need for ‘European army’ to defend against Russia, China

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018, file photo, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, meets Chinese Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Singapore. (AP Photo/Robert Burns, File)

U.S, Chinese officials spar over South China Sea engagements

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

In this Nov. 9, 2017, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping participate in a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. Mr. Xi had an "extremely positive" phone conversation with Mr. Trump about trade and other issues, the foreign ministry said Friday, Nov. 2, 2018. The two leaders agreed to "strengthen economic exchanges," said a ministry spokesman, Lu Kang. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

CROSSTALK: Trump hitting reset buttons on Russia, China

By L. Todd Wood

From left, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fengheat, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, and Chinese Politburo Member Yang Jiechi shake hands at the conclusion of a news conference at the State Department in Washington, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The Latest: China scolds US over presence in South China Sea

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President Donald Trump talks with reporters before departing for France on the South Lawn of the White House, Friday, Nov. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

CROSSTALK: US-Russia-China Big Three - or WW III?

By Edward Lozansky

EDITORIAL: President Xi talks of reducing trade restrictions and expanding imports

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Containers are piled high at a port in Qingdao in eastern China's Shandong province Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018. Growth in Chinese exports to the United States ticked up in October as traders rushed to beat another round of tariff hikes. (Chinatopix via AP)

China’s exports to US tick up as traders try to beat tariffs

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Vietnam protests China’s weather stations in disputed sea

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Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock poses a the international police agency in Lyon, central France, Thursday, Nov.8, 2018. Stock says that the international police organization's rules forbid him from probing the fate of the man who served as Interpol president until two months ago when he vanished on a trip to China, his homeland. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Interpol: Rules forbid probe of ex-president’s fate in China

By ELAINE GANLEY - Associated Press

President Obama walks past Chinese President Xi Jinping as he arrives for a group photo session for the G-20 Summit in Hangzhou, China, on Sunday. (Associated Press)

China violated Obama-Xi cyber pact banning cyber-enabled economic espionage: NSA official

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Nathaniel Gleicher (right), Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, monitors election-related content on the social media platform with Samidh Chakrabarti (left), director of elections and civic engagement, and Katie Harbath, global politics and government outreach director. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Election interference deterred?

By Bill Gertz

In this Oct. 31, 2018, photo, Huang Yongzhen, CEO of Watrix, checks his smartphone as employees demonstrate the use of their firm's gait recognition software at his company's offices in Beijing. A Chinese technology startup hopes to begin selling software that recognizes people by their body shape and how they walk, enabling identification when faces are hidden from cameras. Already used by police on the streets of Beijing and Shanghai, “gait recognition” is part of a major push to develop artificial-intelligence and data-driven surveillance across China, raising concern about how far the technology will go. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Watch how you walk — A.I.’s got you ID’d by gait

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2018, file photo, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks at a Liberal Party Wentworth by-election function in Double Bay in Sydney, Australia. Morrison on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018 outlined the country’s plans to increase investments in infrastructure in the South Pacific as China’s influence in those nations grows. (Chris Pavlich/AAP Image via AP, File)

Australia details investment in Pacific as China clout grows

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press