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Chinese paramilitary policemen march past street cleaners near Tiananmen Square in Beijing Monday, June 1, 2015. The Chinese capital maintains a tight security around Tiananmen Square ahead of the 26th anniversary of China's June 4 bloody crackdown on pro democracy demonstrators. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

KIM R. HOLMES: China prepping for regional hegemony

By Kim R. Holmes

Rescue workers stand on the ship that capsized on the Yangtze River in central China's Hubei province Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Boat sinks in China’s Yangtze River; at least 1 dead, nearly 450 missing

Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter delivers his speech about "The United States and Challenges to Asia-Pacific Security" during the 14th International Institute for Strategic Studies Shangri-la Dialogue, or IISS, Asia Security Summit, Saturday, May 30, 2015, in Singapore. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

U.S. defense secretary to ask Vietnam to end land reclamation

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

A statue of the Goddess of Democracy is displayed during a pro-democracy protest near the China Liaison Offices in Hong Kong Sunday, May 31, 2015. The protest marks the 26th anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square on June 4, ahead of a much larger annual candlelight vigil. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

EDITORIAL: China cracks down on free press in Hong Kong

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter Wednesday challenged Chinese pressure for U.S. warships and surveillance aircraft to halt all operations near disputed islands in the strategic waters that China is claiming as its sovereign maritime domain. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Ashton Carter: Stop China island build-up

By Bill Gertz

In this Aug. 28, 2014 photo, people ride Jet Ski near a Chinese Guided Missile Frigate Hengshui docked at a port in Yalong Bay in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. China’s military on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 compared its controversial island reclamation project in the South China Sea to ordinary construction going on in other parts of the country, such as the building of roads and apartments. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s army plays down South China Sea island-building

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

atoll: China's alleged ongoing reclamation of Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea is raising notices of Western nations concerned China may be attempting to assert dominance. (Associated Press)

Beijing brushes off South China Sea complaints, adopts aggressive military stance

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Thursday, May 21, 2015 photo, local militia group fighters walk past a building torched by Taliban fighters at Talawka village in Kunduz province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Fighting has been raging in Kunduz for more than a month. Pushed back by army reinforcements that arrived days after the assault began, insurgents now occupy villages in Gor Tepa, 15 kilometers (12 miles) from the provincial capital, also called Kunduz. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan forces struggle as Taliban seeks northern stronghold

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Visitors to the forbidden city carry children holding the Chinese national flags in Beijing, China, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2013. Some 15 million to 20 million Chinese parents will be allowed to have a second baby after the Chinese government announced Friday, Nov. 15, 2013 that couples where one partner has no siblings can have two children, in the first significant easing of the countrys strict one-child policy in nearly three decades.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Why no one wants to talk about China’s female suicide problem

By Elise Harris and Kate Veik - Catholic News Agency

A rubbish dump ready for burning blots the vista of mine workings and mountains in the suburbs of Kiruna, Sweden. To feed China's growing appetite for raw materials, this venerable mining town prepares to demolish most of its buildings, all part of an ambitious $375 million project to make way for the expansion of a giant iron mine.

Sweden to relocate entire city of Kiruna to meet China’s energy needs

By Dominic Hinde - Special to The Washington Times

Xiaoxing Xi (Temple University)

Xioaxing Xi, Pa. physics professor, accused of sharing sensitive U.S. technology with China

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Lt. Col. Richard Cole speaks on the phone with the son of Ruan Yicheng, the provincial commissioner who was in charge of the operation that rescued Cole and his fellow airmen immediately following the Doolittle Tokyo Raid.

A Doolittle Raider offers some long-distance healing

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

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Inside China: Anti-Japanese TV propaganda dramas backfire

By Miles Yu

Thailand's Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha publicly shrugs off international criticism of his May 22, 2014, coup and his junta's military trials and coercive "attitude-adjustment" confinement for civilian dissidents. (Associated Press)

Gen. Prayuth Chan-ocha, Thailand coup leader, tightens grip amid turmoil one year later

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

NUMBER 1. BOEING AH-64 APACHE is a four-blade, twin-engine attack helicopter with a tailwheel-type landing gear arrangement, and a tandem cockpit for a two-man crew. It features a nose-mounted sensor suite for target acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a 30 mm (1.18 in) M230 Chain Gun carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fuselage. It has four hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve combat survivability. An air weapons team of two AH-64D Apaches from the 1st "Attack" Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, come in for a landing at Camp Taji, Iraq, after completing a reconnaissance mission in the skies over Baghdad Nov. 6. Photo by Chief Warrant Officer 4 Daniel McClinton, 1st ACB, 1st Cav. Div.

Army told to get tougher with China, quit deferring to U.S. Navy in Asia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, right, is greeted by U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Mark Lippert upon his arrival at the Seoul Military Airport in Seongnam, South Korea, Sunday, May 17, 2015. As U.S. Secretary of State Kerry wrapped up a visit to China on Sunday, both sides stressed the importance of dialogue to resolve competing claims in the waterway. But neither showed any sign of giving ground over Chinese land reclamation projects that have alarmed the United States and China's smaller neighbors.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

PETER MORICI: The poverty of Obama’s foreign policy

By Peter Morici

Service group teaches jewelry making to exploited women

By Julie Crothers Beer - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Sunday, May 17, 2015. Kerry was meeting Sunday with Chinese President Xi before heading to South Korea to complete a short Asian tour that has been clouded so far by concerns over China's construction in South China Sea. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool Photo via AP)

ANDREW QUINLAN: A challenge to Chinese targeting of American firms

By Andrew F. Quinlan

The National Mall with the Lincoln Memorial, and Washington Monument are seen from the roof of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington in this Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

SUSAN AU ALLEN: Presidential candidates should pivot toward Asian voters

By Susan Au Allen

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Barefoot Lawyer: A Blind Man’s Fight for Justice and Freedom in China’

By Steven W. Mosher