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Prep school reaches out to international students

By DEIRDRE COX BAKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, file photo, Chinese Navy officials stand in front of the ship Daqing, in San Diego. China has appointed the former head of its southern fleet as the new commander of its increasingly powerful navy. Vice Adm. Shen Jinlong takes command of a sprawling force that is growing in both size and modernity as China seeks to assert its regional maritime claims and project strength far from its shores. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Former head of southern fleet appointed to lead China’s navy

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

FILE - This June 17, 2014 file photo shows the Sands Expo and Convention Center and The Palazzo in Las Vegas. The properties are owned and operated by Las Vegas Sands Corp. U.S. authorities said Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, that billionaire Sheldon Adelson's casino company is paying almost $7 million to settle a foreign corrupt practices investigation of the company's former relationship with a consultant in Macao and China. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)

Las Vegas Sands paying $7M to settle corrupt practices probe

By KEN RITTER - Associated Press

Grimes meets with Chinese Embassy officials to promote Ky.

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China's Jack Ma, Alibaba Group founder and executive chairman, speaks during a panel session during the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2017. (Laurent Gillieron/Keystone via AP) ** FILE **

Alibaba’s Ma: Olympics deal will help fight counterfeiting

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FILE - In this May 10, 2016, file photo, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un waves at parade participants at the Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea. North Korea is marking Kim Jong Un's birthday Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017 in a decidedly low-key manner. Though the young leader's birthday is well-known throughout the country, it has yet to be celebrated with the kind of adulatory festivities that accompany the birthdays of his late grandfather and father. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

China’s boost to North Korean nukes

By James A. Lyons and Richard D. Fisher Jr.

FILE - In this July 29, 2015, file photo, French police officers carry a piece of debris from a plane known as a &quot;flaperon&quot; on the shore of Saint-Andre, Reunion Island. While search crews spent years trawling in futility through a remote patch of the Indian Ocean for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, people wandering along beaches on the other side of the ocean began spotting debris that washed ashore. Those pieces provided key information and raised questions whether Malaysia, Australia and China - who funded the hunt for the underwater wreckage - missed key opportunities by failing to organize coastal searches for plane parts. (AP Photo/Lucas Marie, File)

Were opportunities for clues from MH370 debris missed?

By KRISTEN GELINEAU - Associated Press

China says 2,500 wartime Japanese chemical weapons destroyed

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Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, "Pursuing protectionism is like locking oneself in a dark room. Wind and rain may be kept outside, but so are light and air." (Associated Press)

Xi vs. Trump: Chinese leader praises globalization, warns of trade wars at tony Davos summit

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 4, 2016, file photo, Seattle Storm's Breanna Stewart dribbles against the Phoenix Mercury in a WNBA preseason basketball game in Seattle. Stewart will return to the U.S. from China after spraining the posterior cruciate ligament in her right knee last week while playing for Shanghai in the Chinese basketball league. The Seattle Storm star won't require surgery and is flying back Friday, Jan. 20, 2017, to rehab the injury. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

Breanna Stewart flying home from China to rehab knee

By DOUG FEINBERG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2016 file photo, Chelsea's Oscar sits on the pitch during the English Premier League soccer match between Watford and Chelsea at the Vicarage Road stadium in London. The governing body of Chinese soccer plans a series of measures in response to what is termed &quot;irrational&quot; spending by clubs on transfer fees and player salaries, amid concerns that foreign stars are crowding out local talent and harming the country's goal of becoming a global force in the sport. Shanghai Shenhua said it paid an $11 million transfer fee to Argentina's Boca Juniors for Teves. Oscar was purchased from Chelsea, and Brazilians Hulk, Ramires, Alex Teixeira and Paulinho, Colombian striker Jackson Martinez and Argentine forward Ezequiel Lavezzi also joined the league. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

Chinese Super League curbs spending on foreign stars

By JOHN DUERDEN - Associated Press

In this April 21, 2015, file photo, a U.S. Navy's amphibious assault vehicle with Philippine and U.S. troops on board storms the beach at a combined assault exercise at a beach facing one of the contested islands in the South China Sea known as the Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea at the Naval Education and Training Command at San Antonio township. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By HRVOJE HRANJSKI - Associated Press

China, Russia say united against South Korea missile defense

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is anchored in the northern port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. Taiwan's defense ministry said China's sole aircraft carrier on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 was transiting the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between the mainland and self-governing island it claims as its own territory. (Wu Dengfeng/Xinhua via AP, File)

China aircraft carrier capabilities tested on latest mission

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Obama files trade complaint against China’s aluminum dumping at WTO

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 12, 2016 photo, a man walks out from a main screening hall of the Digital Cinema in Zhuolu county in north China's Hebei province. The brightly-decorated 3-D cinema in this town outside Beijing is showing the latest Chinese and Hollywood films, to row after row of empty red seats. So few people come to watch films here that the theater manager rents out the halls to travelling sales companies or music teachers. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China overtakes US in screens but cinemas sit empty

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, right, and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte walk together for their meeting at the Malacanang Palace grounds, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, in Manila, Philippines. Abe arrived Thursday for a two-day official visit that includes a visit to Duterte's hometown of Davao city in southern Philippines.(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Abe pledges investments, speedboats to China-friendly Manila

By TERESA CEROJANO - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, April 20, 2016, workers setup ahead of Auto China 2016 in Beijing, China. Industry figures released Jan. 12, 2017, show China's auto market had a bumper year in 2016 as sales grew by 15 percent, with drivers rushing to buy cars before a tax break expired at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China auto market has bumper year but 2017 outlook is weaker

By KELVIN CHAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo released by China's Xinhua news agency, China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, is anchored in the northern port in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. Taiwan's defense ministry said China's sole aircraft carrier on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017 was transiting the Taiwan Strait amid heightened tensions between the mainland and self-governing island it claims as its own territory. (Wu Dengfeng/Xinhua via AP, File)

China sails warships thru Taiwan Strait

By L. Todd Wood

"Migrant flows are greater now than in the past 70 years, raising the specter of drained welfare coffers and increased competition for jobs, and reinforcing nativist, anti-elite impulses," says a report by the National Intelligence Council. (Associated Press/File)

America’s future looks bleak to academic, intelligence analysts

By Bill Gertz