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A China Coast Guard vessel attempts to block a Philippine government vessel as the latter tries to enter the China Second Thomas Disputed Shoals (local name Ayungin Shoal) to replace Philippine troops and resupply provisions Saturday, March 29, 2014 off the South China Sea. Chinese coast guard ships set up a blockade but a lone Philippine boat maneuvered past them in the high seas Saturday to deliver a fresh batch of Filipino troops and food supplies to a disputed shoal in a tense, cat-and-mouse-like confrontation witnessed for the first time by journalists in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

Philippine supply ship evades Chinese vessel

By JIM GOMEZ - Associated Press

Wing Commander Rob Shearer looks through binoculars on the flight deck of a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft searching for missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370 over the southern Indian Ocean, March 29, 2014. A day after the search for the Malaysian jetliner shifted to a new area of the Indian Ocean, ships on Saturday plucked objects from the sea to determine whether they were related to the missing jet. None were confirmed to be from the plane, leaving searchers with no sign of the jet three weeks after it disappeared. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Malaysian jet search reveals new floating objects, but no hard evidence tied to crash

Associated Press

In this Monday, March 24, 2014 photo, fans watch actress Scarlett Johansson, left in foreground, sign her autograph during a publicity event ahead of the April release of her movie &quot;Captain America: The Winter Soldier&quot; in Beijing. Captain America and Spiderman are seeking to dominate the Chinese box office in the coming weeks, proving that U.S. patriotic superheroes can overcome China’s leeriness of foreign films if they promise big money. Chinese authorities, wary of outside cultural influences and competition, restrict the number of foreign movies shown in the mainland’s cinemas to 34 each year. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Action, special effects helps Hollywood in China

By LOUISE WATT - Associated Press

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Pentagon to triple cyber staff, build ‘elite’ force to thwart attacks

By Pauline Jelinek and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

FILE - This May 27, 2008 file photo shows the gurney in Huntsville, Texas, where Texas' condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal dose of drugs. Texas prison officials say they&#8217;ve secured a new supply of pentobarbital that will allow the nation&#8217;s most active death penalty state to continue executions. Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark also said the prison agency is not identifying the source of the new drug inventory because of threats made against previous suppliers when they were identified as a provider of lethal injection drugs. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan, File)

2013 had 15 percent spike in executions: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Frank R. Wolf, Virginia Republican (Associated Press)

Lawmakers worry China will top U.S. in scientific research

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Hagel to host Asia meeting; travel to China, Japan

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

A Chinese IL-76 plane searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 returns to Perth, Australia after a hunting sortie on Monday. (Xinhua news agency via Associated Press)

Inside China: Does active role of Chinese in search for missing Malaysia jet have a dual purpose?

By Miles Yu

Correction: United States-Asia-Military story

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

This graphic released by the Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency on Wednesday March 26, 2014, shows satellite imagery taken on March 23, 2014, with the approximate positions of objects seen floating in the southern Indian Ocean in the search zone for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday that a satellite has captured images of 122 objects close to where three other satellites previously detected objects. (AP Photo/Malaysian Remote Sensing Agency)

Satellite spots 122 objects in Malaysia jet search

By TODD PITMAN and ROB GRIFFITH - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, tastes local food during a visit before a dinner at the town hall in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Xi Jinping arrived in France for a three-day state visit. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani, Pool)

Deal-making ahead as China president visits France

By SYLVIE CORBET - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, and his wife Peng Liyuan, right, show the way to U.S. first lady Michelle Obama as they proceed to a meeting room at the Diaoyutai state guesthouse in Beijing, China Friday, March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool)

MILLER: Michelle Obama has media blackout in China while touting freedom of press

By Emily Miller - The Washington Times

A representative of relatives of Chinese passengers on board Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, center, makes an announcement to journalists prior to a briefing with Malaysian officials at a hotel in Beijing, China, Wednesday, March 26, 2014. About two-thirds of the missing, 239 people on board, are Chinese, and their relatives have lashed out at Malaysia for essentially declaring their family members dead without any physical evidence of the plane's remains. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Relatives skeptical of Malaysia plane probe

By Christopher Bodeen and Didi Tang - Associated Press

A Chinese paramilitary policeman stands guard on Tiananmen Square while sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference are held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Monday, March 4, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s three-front war against U.S.

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

Man gets probation in fossil-smuggling case

By BEN NEARY - Associated Press

Chinese relatives of passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines plane, flight MH370, shout in protest as they march towards the Malaysia embassy in Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Furious over Malaysia's handling of the lost jetliner a day after the country said the passengers must be dead, Chinese relatives of the missing marched Tuesday to the Malaysia Embassy, where they threw plastic water bottles, tried to rush the gate and chanted, &quot;Liars!&quot; The blue placard reads: &quot;We won't leave or ditch you, we will wait right here.&quot;(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China demands satellite data on missing plane

By SCOTT McDONALD and EILEEN NG - Associated Press

** FILE ** China's Xia-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine. (Associated Press)

China’s new subs to get long-range nuclear missiles for the first time

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.S. first lady Michelle Obama meets the students as she visits an English language class at Chengdu No.7 High School in Chengdu in southwestern province of Sichuan, China Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Obama spoke to rural Chinese students via web conferencing Tuesday, at her last stop of the six-day China tour focusing on education and cultural exchange. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

US first lady urges Chinese students to aim high

By DIDI TANG - Associated Press

China demands answers from US over spying claims

Associated Press

President Barack Obama, center, and two secret service agents are silhouetted as he walks toward Marine One helicopter upon arrival at Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, Netherlands, Monday March 24, 2014. Obama will attend the two-day Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, POOL)

Russia dominates, but Obama trip broadens outreach

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press