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In this July 18, 2014 photo, South Coast Plaza General Manager Werner Escher, middle at doorway, greets Chinese tourists visiting the shopping center in Costa Mesa, Calif. Chinese tourism is surging and the mall is a popular destination that is doing what it can to keep the buses coming, from accepting China’s UnionPay card to providing Mandarin-speaking salespeople. Tourism from China to the United States has soared since the countries signed an agreement in 2007 promoting travel. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

U.S. eager to cater to Chinese tourists

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

RAHN: No government austerity, no gain

By Richard W. Rahn

This handout photo provided by the Office of the Defense Secretary (OSD), taken Aug. 19, 2014, shows a Chinese fighter jet that the Obama administration said Friday conducted a &quot;dangerous intercept&quot; of a U.S. Navy surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft off the coast of China in international airspace. (AP Photo/OSD)

China defends intercepting U.S. Navy plane

By JACK CHANG - Associated Press

Image: Facebook, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70)

U.S. sends second carrier to Asia amid tensions with China; USS Carl Vinson departed Friday

By Bill Gertz — The Washington Free Beacon

In this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014 photo, farmer Adiya, right, stands in front of a pond of waste water near a state-of-the-art power plant that turns millions of tons of coal every year into methane in northern China's Inner Mongolia province. As a boy growing up there, Adiya could ride his horse through waist-high grass for miles without meeting another person. Now, the 32-year-old says he stays indoors some mornings because of the industrial stench. Since the plant started running in December, it has obscured the blue skies above Adiya&#8217;s home with smoke while black pools of wastewater have turned up in the grasslands. &#8220;I only wish they could build this factory in Beijing,&#8221; said Adiya, who uses only one name, as is Mongolian custom. (AP Photo/Jack Chang)

Coal gas boom in China holds climate change risks

By Jack Change - Associated Press

A U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon taxies along the runway before it takes off from Perth Airport on route to rejoin the on-going search operations for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in Perth, Australia, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Planes and ships hunting for the missing Malaysian jetliner zeroed in on a targeted patch of the Indian Ocean on Thursday, after a navy ship picked up underwater signals that are consistent with a plane's black box. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

Pentagon accuses Chinese jet of ‘dangerous’ intercept in international airspace

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A Russian sport called the Tank Biathlon has gripped China's military buffs and has been intensely reported and discussed in the media, including on hundreds of China's Internet-based military forums. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Inside China: Tanked in Russia

By Miles Yu

Bao Bao follows her mother, Mei Mei, back into their indoor enclosure for feeding time. On Saturday, zoo visitors can watch as the 1-year-old cub gets her birthday cake.

National Zoo birthday party for Bao Bao, its year-old panda cub

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

U.S. counterterrorism officials say efforts to use social media to spy on the Islamic State have been thwarted by Twitter's crackdown on ISIL tweets. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Quieting Islamic State’s tweets

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Monday Aug. 4, 2014 photo, Chinese tourists on board the Princess Cruises ship Diamond Princess off the coast of Fukuoka, Japan. Cruise operators have traditionally sent older vessels to developing countries while saving their most advanced ships for U.S. and European customers. But surging growth in China means it’s a market operators can no longer ignore. The race for China underscores the growing strength of the leisure and travel industries in the world’s No. 2 economy as authorities try to spur domestic spending rather than trade and investment as an engine of growth. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Global cruise lines set sail for China

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

NATO Alliance Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

GORDON: As NATO withers, whither NATO?

By J.D. Gordon

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 5, 2013 file photo, two baby orphaned elephants touch trunks as they give themselves a dust-bath in the red earth after being fed milk from a bottle by a keeper, at an event to commemorate World Environment Day at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. Wildlife Direct chief executive Paula Kahumbu on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014 delivered a petition with nearly 400 signatures on it to Kenya's inspector general of police urging the arrest of what her group says is the "ivory kingpin" of Kenya. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

100,000 elephants killed in Africa, study finds

By JASON STRAZIUSO - Associated Press

healer: Pope Francis greets Lee Ho-jin, father of one of the more than 300 victims of the sinking of a South Korean ferry — most of them high school students — in Seoul. As part of his trip, Francis outlined his desire for greater relations with Asian nations, especially China. (associated press/L'osservatore romano)

Pope Francis calls for ‘fraternal dialogue’ with China, North Korea

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 22, 2013, file photo, former Philadelphia Eagle, Philadelphia Soul owner, and ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski speaks during an event discussing impact of sports, hosted by the Rothman Institute, in Philadelphia. The China American Football League plans to kick off in the world's most populous country in 2015. The announcement made Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, comes less than a year after Philadelphia Soul co-owner Marty Judge sponsored the first American football game played in China. Former Super Bowl-winning coach Dick Vermeil and former Pro Bowl quarterback Ron Jaworski partnered with Judge to help make it happen. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Gridiron diplomacy: American football comes to China, and a billion potential fans

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Nov. 30, 2007, file photo, backdrop by cooling towers of a power plant and chemical factory, miners shovel coal at a mine in Xiahuayuan county, north China's Hebei province. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)

Xinhua: 23 trapped in flooded coal mine in China

Associated Press

A Chinese People's Liberation Army vessel is seen from an MH-60 helicopter in the South China Sea. An annual report to Congress on China's evolving military capability concluded that the modernization was being driven in part by growing territorial disputes in the East and South China seas, as well as by Beijing's desire to expand its presence and influence abroad. (U.S. Navy)

Inside China: Military officer lashes out at ‘traitor’ netizens who mock gaffes

By Miles Yu