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strategic allies: Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian (right) has agreed to let Russian President Vladimir Putin deploy a slew of military vehicles to a base just outside the Armenian capital of Yerevan. (Associated Press)

Hypersonic weapons: U.S. trails Russia, China in developing cutting-edge military technology

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rock, Paper, Scissors Scalene Triangle Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific

By Brahma Chellaney

In this photo taken between May 7 and 8, 2018 released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, right speaks to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Dalian in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

N. Korea’s Kim meets China’s president ahead of Trump summit

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

CORRECTS SECOND SENTENCE - A North Korea's Air Koryo plane lands in an airport in Dalian, China, Tuesday, May 8, 2018. The plane arrived as Japanese and South Korean media speculated that a high-ranking North Korean official was visiting the Chinese port city. (Minoru Iwasaki/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: Kim says he’s committed to denuclearization

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FILE - This May 11, 2015, file photo, shows land reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands by China in the South China Sea. China won’t say whether it has deployed missiles to man-made island outposts in the South China Sea but says it has the right to take whatever actions it wishes on territory it claims as its own. U.S. broadcaster CNBC quoted intelligence sources as saying that China has deployed anti-ship cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles on Fiery Cross Reef, Subi Reef and Mischief Reef in the contested Spratly island chain. (Ritchie B. Tongo/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

China slams US criticism of its ‘Orwellian’ Taiwan demand

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Local team to represent US at Shanghai dragon boat festival

By CATHERINE GODBEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 30, 2005 file photo, an Iranian security official in protective clothing walks through part of the Uranium Conversion Facility just outside the city of Isfahan, Iran. President Donald Trump is weighing whether to pull the U.S. out of Iran's nuclear deal, a 2015 agreement that capped over a decade of hostility between Tehran and the West over its atomic program. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Russia eyes closer Iran ties, more trade if Trump nixes nuclear deal

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

China denies using lasers on US aircraft in Djibouti

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2018, file photo, former Massey CEO and West Virginia Republican Senatorial candidate, Don Blankenship, speaks during a town hall to kick off his campaign in Logan, W. Va. Blankenship has unleashed a political ad that takes swipes at &quot;China people&quot; and calls the Senate majority leader &quot;Cocaine Mitch.&quot; His ad says McConnell has created jobs for &quot;China people&quot; and charges that his &quot;China family&quot; has given him millions of dollars.McConnell's wife is U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, whose parents are originally from China.(AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Ex-coal baron takes swipe at “China people” in political ad

By JOHN RABY and JONATHAN MATTISE - Associated Press

U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross leaves his hotel in Beijing, Friday, May 4, 2018. A high-powered U.S. delegation met for a second day of talks with Chinese officials on defusing tensions that are propelling the world's largest two economies toward a trade war. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump team returning from China, won’t back down from trade-war threat, president says

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

California Gov. Jerry Brown delivers the keynote address at the annual California-China Business Summit in Beverly Hills, Calif., Thursday, May 3, 2018. The symposium convenes business leaders and investors for discussion on foreign direct investment, bilateral trade and mutual economic industries. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

California governor warns against trade war with China

By MICHAEL R. BLOOD - Associated Press

Illustration on a coming trade war with China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

How China has targeted U.S. industries

By Peter Morici

North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, second right, meets with Chinese Foreign MinisterWang Yi at the Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, North Korea Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

China congratulates North Korea’s Kim on reducing tensions

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, is welcomed by North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Ri Kil Song, right, on his arrival at Pyongyang Airport, North Korea Wednesday, May 2, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Chol Jin)

China’s foreign minister in N. Korea seeks role for Beijing

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

In this April 27, 2018 photo, a woman reacts to a Peppa Pig mascot during the Global Mobile Internet Conference (GMIC) in Beijing, China. The cherubic British cartoon character, Peppa Pig, has become an unlikely target of China's censors as online fans use her porcine likeness in sardonic memes and &quot;gangster&quot; catchphrases. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Peppa Pig wins street cred, attracts censors in China

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2017, file photo, Los Angeles Kings' Jonny Brodzinski, second from right, and the Vancouver Canucks' Derek Dorsett battle for control of the puck during the second period of their NHL China exhibition game at the Cadillac Arena in Beijing. The NHL is going back to China for two exhibition games this fall between the Boston Bruins and Calgary Flames. The league announced Wednesday, May 2, 2018, the Bruins and Flames will face off Sept. 15 in Shenzhen in southeast China and then again Sept. 19 in Beijing.(AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Bruins, Flames going to China as NHL continues outreach

By STEPHEN WHYNO - Associated Press

Dominican Republic President Danilo Medina address a high-level meeting on Hurricane Irma at the United Nations, Monday Sept. 18, 2017, U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) ** FILE **

Taiwan takes a hit as China influence rises on other side of world

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross testifies before a House Committee on Appropriation subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Wilbur Ross short-term pain need to open China to American exports

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen listens to questions after inspecting navy exercises at Suao naval station, in Yilan County, northeast of Taiwan, Friday, April 13, 2018. Taiwan’s Armed Forces showed their capabilities of defending the Taiwan Strait with warfare involving submarine, surface ships with helicopter and Air Force strikes ahead of another drill conducted by China next week. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Dominican Republic severs Taiwan ties, forges China relations

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