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FILE - In this Nov. 9, 2017, file photo, U.S. President Donald Trump, right, chats with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Critics fear foreign government favors to Trump businesses have become business as usual. Ethics watchdogs say apparent quid-pro-quo deals are not being stopped by a Republican-led Congress or the courts. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China trade surplus with U.S. hits record $31 billion

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this April 25, 2018, photo, visitors and journalists gather near a Ford Focus on display at the Ford exhibit during the media day for the China Auto Show in Beijing. Ford won't be moving production of a hatchback wagon to the United States from China, despite President Donald Trump's claim Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018 that his taxes on Chinese imports mean the Focus Active can be built in America. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Despite Trump tweet, Ford says it won’t make hatchback in US

By PAUL WISEMAN - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks at a rally at Rimrock Auto Arena in Billings, Mont., Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

Donald Trump cheers nixed Ford-China deal, says tariffs working

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

China’s trade surplus with US hits record $31 billion

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

President Donald Trump walks off of the stage following a fundraiser in Sioux Falls, S.D., Friday, Sept. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Trump: Apple can avoid tariffs by shifting production to U.S.

By David Koenig - Associated Press

US recalls Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Panama diplomats

Associated Press

Trump: Ready to tax an additional $267B in Chinese imports

By JOSH BOAK - Associated Press

Boston Bruins' Charlie McAvoy, left, speaks as teammate Patrice Bergeron, second from left, and Chicago Blackhawks' Alex DeBrincat and Jonathan Toews, right, listen during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, in Chicago about the NHL Winter Classic hockey game. The Bruins will play the Blackhawks at Notre Dame Stadium on New Year's Day in South Bend, Ind. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Bergeron among Bruins players not going on trip to China

Associated Press

In this March 21, 2018, photo, Marip Lu sits in her family's shelter in a refugee camp in northern Kachin State, Myanmar. Marip Lu, 24, claims she was kidnapped by traffickers and suffered six years of captivity, rape and abuse deep in China. As the demand for &quot;brides&quot; in China rises, The Associated Press has pieced together the tragic ordeal of one woman who escaped, but had to leave her son behind. (AP Photo/Esther Htusan)

6 Years Gone: Myanmar woman escapes brutal China captivity

By TODD PITMAN and ESTHER HTUSAN and DAKE KANG - Associated Press

This Friday, June 1, 2018, file photo, shows syringes of the opioid painkiller fentanyl in an inpatient pharmacy. A new report from the Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy says 1,565 people died in the state from drug overdoses in 2017. That's an 11.5 percent increase from 2016. More than half of the overdose deaths in 2017 were caused by fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

DEA: China banned 175 fentanyl ingredients

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

China says retaliation ready if US tariffs go ahead

Associated Press

An investor checks stock prices at a brokerage house in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018. Asian markets are mixed on fears that the U.S. would soon impose tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods, as public consultations draw to a close. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

The Latest: China ready to retaliate if US imposes tariffs

Associated Press

In this July 18, 2012, file photo, wheat harvest is in full swing near Patterson, Wash. The trade war with China is making life difficult for many farmers across Washington state. Washington State stands to lose $480 million in agricultural exports to China because of retaliatory tariffs, according to the state Department of Agriculture. (Paul T. Erickson/The Tri-City Herald via AP, File)

Donald Trump poised to tax an additional $200B in Chinese imports

By Paul Wiseman and Anne D'Innocenzio - Associated Press

FILE- This April 5, 2018, file photo shows a building's address on Wall Street in New York. The U.S. stock market opens at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 6. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Asian markets fall as US, China renew tariff threat

By ANNABELLE LIANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo taken Thursday, May 22, 2014, Liu Qiangdong, also known as Richard Liu, CEO of JD.com, raises his arms to celebrate the IPO for his company at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York. JD.com, China's No. 2 e-commerce service, is headquartered in Beijing. The Chinese e-commerce billionaire who faces a possible rape accusation in Minneapolis built his business by promising honesty in a market plagued by fraud and fakes. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Chinese e-commerce tycoon part of celebrity tech elite

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a joint press conference at the 2018 Beijing Summit Of The Forum On China-Africa Cooperation at the Great Hall of the People, Tuesday Sept. 4, 2018, in Beijing, China. The two-day summit in Beijing bringing together the leaders of China and 53 African nations ended Tuesday, with a joint declaration. (Lintao Zhang/Pool via AP)

China boosting trade with North Korea to undermine Donald Trump: Report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Kansai International Airport is partially flooded by Typhoon Jebi in Osaka, western Japan, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. The powerful typhoon slammed into western Japan on Tuesday, inundating the region's main international airport and blowing a tanker into a bridge, disrupting land and air travel and leaving thousands stranded. (Hiroko Harima/Kyodo News via AP)

Storm-hit Japan airport counts damage; unclear when reopens

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 26, 2018, file photo, a staff member uses his smartphone in front of a billboard for Chinese cellphone maker Honor at the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing. The head of China's patent and copyright agency is defending what he says are gains in fighting violations - once a chronic complaint by China's trading partners - in a new effort to defuse a tariff war with Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

China points to other gains in hopes of easing US trade ire

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Russia, like China, is believed to be using development of advanced missile defenses as cover for secret programs to build satellite-killing missiles. (Associated Press/File)

Russia’s Nudol: Anti-satellite missile test?

By Bill Gertz

The secret of Roman Emperor Trajan’s success - he knew when to expand as well as when to retreat

The Trajan Manifesto

By Martin Sieff, Edward Lozansky, James Jatras and Gilbert Doctorow