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China plans to land probes on far side of moon, Mars by 2020

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's aircraft carrier Liaoning berths in a port of China. China's military says its first aircraft carrier group has carried out a series of fighter launch, recovery and air combat exercises in the Yellow Sea amid tensions with the U.S. and Taiwan. The Defense Ministry announced late Friday that the Liaoning carrier group conducted the drills in the Yellow Sea in recent days and is scheduled to continue exercises farther afield. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Tang, File)

China’s 1st aircraft carrier sails into South China Sea

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How pioneer of modern cruising became underdog, leader again

By CHABELI HERRERA - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's aircraft carrier Liaoning berths in a port of China. China's military says its first aircraft carrier group has carried out a series of fighter launch, recovery and air combat exercises in the Yellow Sea amid tensions with the U.S. and Taiwan. The Defense Ministry announced late Friday that the Liaoning carrier group conducted the drills in the Yellow Sea in recent days and is scheduled to continue exercises farther afield. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Tang, File)

China’s 1st aircraft carrier heads for Western Pacific

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

FILE - In this undated file photo released by the U.S. Navy Visual News Service, the USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 Class Oceanographic Survey Ship, sails in open water. After China returned an underwater glider it seized from the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines, the Philippine defense secretary said his government would put both Washington and Beijing on notice against what he called their unauthorized presence in the country’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone. (CHINFO, Navy Visual News via AP, File)

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By HRVOJE HRANJSKI - Associated Press

Drug Source Elephant in the Room Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Political correctness and opioids

By William C. Triplett II

FILE - In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, China's aircraft carrier Liaoning berths in a port of China. China's military says its first aircraft carrier group has carried out a series of fighter launch, recovery and air combat exercises in the Yellow Sea amid tensions with the U.S. and Taiwan. The Defense Ministry announced late Friday that the Liaoning carrier group conducted the drills in the Yellow Sea in recent days and is scheduled to continue exercises farther afield. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Li Tang, File)

Chinese carrier carries out fighter drills on open seas

By GERRY SHIH - Associated Press

This combination of two 2016 file photos shows, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, left, talking with President Barack Obama at White House in Washington, U.S.A. on Nov. 10, and China's President Xi Jinping arriving at La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile, on Nov. 22. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Luis Hidalgo, Files) **FILE**

China ‘closely following’ Donald Trump comments on nuclear policy

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China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi makes an opening speech during the trilateral foreign minister's meeting in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016. (Katsumi Kasahara/ Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

China says it will cooperate with Donald Trump but warns on Taiwan

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Pope Francis greets Cardinals and Bishops on the occasion of his Christmas greetings to the Roman Curia in the Clementine Hall, at the Vatican, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. The pontiff denounced the resistance hes encountering in reforming the Vatican bureaucracy, saying some of it is inspired by the devil and that the prelates who work for him must undergo "permanent purification" to serve the Catholic Church better. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

Catholics and China: Vatican speaks out on unapproved bishop ordinations

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Illustration on U.S./Taiwan relations by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Taiwan meeting would be a real Asia pivot

By Harry J. Kazianis

In this Aug. 9, 2016, photo, forensic chemist Emily Dye handles evidence, seized in drug raids, which contains fentanyl analogs at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. A novel class of deadly drugs is exploding across the country, with many manufactured in China for export around the world. The drugs, synthetic opioids, are fueling the deadliest addiction crisis the U.S. has ever seen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Inside the DEA: A chemist’s quest to identify mystery drugs

By ERIKA KINETZ - Associated Press

In this Aug. 9, 2016, photo, forensic chemist Emily Dye handles evidence, seized in drug raids, which contains fentanyl analogs at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. A novel class of deadly drugs is exploding across the country, with many manufactured in China for export around the world. The drugs, synthetic opioids, are fueling the deadliest addiction crisis the U.S. has ever seen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Epidemic: DEA chemists race to identify synthetic opioids

By ERIKA KINETZ - Associated Press

A carpark attendant dressed as Santa Claus wears a mask during a hazy day in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. Beijing and much of industrial northern China are in the midst of a &quot;red alert,&quot; the highest level in China's four-tiered pollution warning system. The alert has affected 460 million people, according to Greenpeace East Asia, which calculated that about 200 million people were living in areas that had experienced levels of air pollution more than 10 times above the guideline set by the World Health Organization. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Winds may finally clear ‘scary’ pollution from China’s skies

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

In this June 27, 2016, file photo provided by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the RCMP go through a decontamination procedure in Vancouver after intercepting a package containing approximately 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the powerful opioid carfentanil imported from China. U.S. assertions that China is the top source of the synthetic opioids that have killed thousands of drug users in the U.S. and Canada are unsubstantiated, Chinese officials told the Associated Press. (Royal Canadian Mounted Police via AP, File)

Beijing denies U.S. claim that China is synthetic drug king

By Erika Kinetz and Gillian Wong - Associated Press

Scientist pleads guilty to taking trade secrets to China

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Drone seizure latest sign of tougher times between US, China

By NOMAAN MERCHANT - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2008 file photo, the guided missile frigate USS Mustin is anchored upon its arrival near Sihanoukville, some 185 kilometers (115 miles) southwest of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. China has returned to the U.S. an unmanned underwater drone the Chinese Navy seized unlawfully last week in international waters, the Pentagon said in a statement issued late Monday, Dec. 19, 2016. China's defense ministry said it handed the drone back after &quot;friendly consultations.&quot; The USS Mustin received the vehicle for the U.S. in international waters about 80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Subic Bay, Philippines, according to Pentagon. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

China returns US underwater drone seized in South China Sea

By GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press

Recent developments surrounding the South China Sea

By HRVOJE HRANJSKI - Associated Press

In this undated photo released by the U.S. Navy Visual News Service, the USNS Bowditch, a T-AGS 60 Class Oceanographic Survey Ship, sails in open water. The USNS Bowditch, a civilian U.S. Navy oceanographic survey ship, was recovering two drones on Thursday when a Chinese navy ship approached and sent out a small boat that took one of the drones, said Navy Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. He said the Chinese navy ship acknowledged radio messages from the Bowditch, but did not respond to demands the craft be returned. (CHINFO, Navy Visual News via AP)

China says it will give drone back, but Trump says ‘keep it’

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press