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China hosts El Salvador as nations cut ties with Taiwan

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a news conference to announce a criminal law enforcement action involving China, at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Justice Department and FBI leaders announced criminal charges and an operation to thwart Chinese economic espionage. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

US charges China-controlled company in trade secrets theft

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

National Intelligence Director Dan Coats gives his statement during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing about the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, June 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Dan Coats, intel director, ripped over classified response to Trump’s unfounded meddling remarks

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

China's Premier Li Keqiang, right, shakes hands with U.S. Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander during a meeting with a group of U.S. Republican senators and Congress members at Zhongnanhai leadership compound in Beijing, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. (Jason Lee/Pool Photo via AP)

US senator says China, US ‘competitors but not adversaries’

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Attorney General Jeff Sessions gestures while speaking at the U.S. Marshals Service 37th Director's Honorary Awards Ceremony, at the Department of Justice in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018. Sitting behind Sessions is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Jeff Sessions launches initiative to target Chinese theft of American trade secrets

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Christopher Ford, assistant secretary of state for international security and nonproliferation, said his bureau at the State Department has joined with Los Alamos National Laboratory to put up barriers to Beijing's proliferation of sensitive technologies to build its "China Dream." (Associated Press/File)

Inside the Ring: Christopher Ford, State official, fights China technology theft

By Bill Gertz

In this image made from video, American Institute in Taiwan director Brent Christensen speaks during a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Washington's de facto ambassador to Taiwan reassured the self-governing island of American security backing against threats from China. Christensen said the U.S. considers any attempt to determine Taiwan's future by &quot;other than peaceful means&quot; to be a matter of &quot;grave concern.&quot; China considers Taiwan its own territory to be absorbed using force if necessary. (AP Photo)

US reassures Taiwan on security as China increases threats

By JOHNSON LAI and CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Illustration on a deal with China over coolant by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

As Donald Trump faces down Xi Jinping on trade, a vehicle emissions rule could get in the way

By George David Banks

In this Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, photo, delivery workers sort boxes of goods for their customers outside the capital city development academy in Beijing. An official measure of China's manufacturing activity fell to a two-year low in October, adding to pressure on Beijing to shore up economic growth amid a tariff war with Washington. The monthly purchasing managers' index issued Tuesday by the National Bureau of Statistics and an industry group, the China of Logistics and Purchasing, fell to 50.2 from September's 50.8 on a 100-point scale. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China manufacturing weakens to 2-year low amid trade battles

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Brazil's President-elect Jair Bolsonaro waves at supporters as he arrives to watch an aerial performance by the private pilots' group “Esquadrilha do Ceu&quot; or “Sky Squadron&quot;, at Barra beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. Bolsonaro appeared in public Tuesday for the first time as president-elect. He visited a church led by ultraconservative pastor Silas Malafaia and spoke briefly to the faithful on stage. &quot;I am sure that I am not the most capable, but God capacitates the chosen ones,&quot; he said. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Radical plans, risks in foreign policy of Brazil’s Bolsonaro

By MAURICIO SAVARESE - Associated Press

Promoting Free Trade Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Advancing free trade with China is the approach the United States must take

By Raymond J. Keating

Families await the arrival of President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at a Halloween trick-or-treat event at the White House, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

U.S. trade war with China casts specter on Halloween industry, advocacy group warns

By Laura Kelly - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, Oct. 27, 2018, aerial photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, rescuers conduct a search and rescue operation at a coal mine in Yuncheng County, east China's Shandong Province. Searchers recovered the bodies of all 21 miners who died in a coal mine collapse. The official Xinhua News Agency reported the last body was pulled from the mine Monday afternoon, Oct. 29, 2018. (Guo Xulei/Xinhua via AP)

Last of 21 dead recovered from east China coal mine collapse

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Philippine Armed Forces Chief Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr., left, and Adm. John Richardson, chief of Naval Operations of the U.S. Navy, shake hands prior to a news conference following their meeting Monday, Oct. 29, 2018 at Camp Aguinaldo in suburban Quezon city, northeast of Manila, Philippines. The U.S. Navy will continue patrolling the disputed South China Sea even after a Chinese destroyer came dangerously close to one of its ships during a &quot;freedom of navigation&quot; sail-by near a contested reef. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

US to press patrols in disputed sea, China warns ‘meddlers’

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FILE - In this May 7, 2009, file photo, a Siberian tiger crouches on top of a tourist bus at a branch of Harbin Siberian Tigers Breeding Center in Shenyang in northeast China's Liaoning province. China says it will allow trading in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos under &quot;special circumstances,&quot; reversing a previous ban and bringing condemnation from conservation groups. A notice from the Cabinet issued Monday, Oct. 29, 2018, avoided mentioning any change in the law, saying instead that it would &quot;control&quot; the trade and that rhino horns and tiger bones could only be obtained from farmed animals for use in &quot;medical research or in healing.&quot; (Chinatopix Via AP, File)

China reverses ban on trade in tiger, rhino products

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, walks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, Oct. 26, 2018.(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China-Japan drawing closer amid trade pressure from US

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN and EMILY WANG - Associated Press

Deaths rise to 11 in China mine disaster; 10 still trapped

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No. 21 UCLA puts hopes for Pac-12 title in Hands, Wilkes

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

World’s billionaires saw ranks, wealth grow in 2017

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, second from left, talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, second from right, during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Friday, Oct. 26, 2018. (Nicolas Asfouri/Pool photo via AP)

China, Japan show united front on ‘free and fair’ trade

By EMILY WANG - Associated Press