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China's President Xi Jinping attends the plenary session during the 2023 BRICS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023. (Gianluigi Guercia/Pool via AP) ** FILE **

Chinese surprise: President Xi Jinping won’t attend G20 Summit in India

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Supporters of Capt. Ibrahim Traore protest against France and the West African regional bloc known as ECOWAS in the streets of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Oct. 4, 2022. In Sept. 2023, The era of France's arm-twisting interventionism in Africa may finally be over. France has sat by militarily despite moves by putschists to seize control of former French colonies in recent years. (AP Photo/Kilaye Bationo, File)

France’s waning influence in coup-hit Africa appears clear while few remember their former colonizer

By Jamey Keaten and Sam Mednick and Cara Anna - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida eats the seafood from Fukushima prefecture at lunch at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office via AP)

Japan announces emergency relief measures for seafood exporters hit by China’s ban

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Investment in China Military Proxies Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Whack-a-mole regulation is a poor strategy to stop investment in Chinese military proxies

By Roslyn Layton

Chinese Premier Li Qiang attends a meeting with Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Masatsugu Asakawa, unseen, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on July 11, 2023. Chinese President Xi Jinping will skip this week’s Group of 20 summit in India, amid a downturn in bilateral relations, with Premier Li Qiang to attend in his place, China’s Foreign Ministry said Monday, Sept. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, Pool, File)

China’s Xi will skip G20 summit in India during a period of soured bilateral relations

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This shows a construction work off Henoko in Nago, Okinawa prefecture, southern Japan on May 2, 2023, where the Japanese government plans to relocate a U.S. air base from one area of the prefecture to another. Japan’s Supreme Court on Monday, Sept. 4, 2023 dismissed Okinawa's rejection of a central government plan to build U.S. Marine Corps runways on the island and ordered the prefecture to approve it despite protests by locals who oppose the American troops' presence. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s top court orders Okinawa to allow a divisive government plan to build U.S. military runways

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Two soldiers fold the national flag during the daily flag ceremony at the National Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan, on May 7, 2023. Taiwan’s government is racing to counter China’s military, but many on the island say they don’t share the sense of threat. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

As Taiwan’s government races to counter China, most people aren’t worried about war

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

A new China map shows the South China Sea with nine-dash line claims under Chinese territory and a new line next to Taiwan are seen on the map, at a bookstore in Beijing, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023.China has upset many in the Asia-Pacific region with the release of a new official map that lays claim to most of the South China Sea, as well as contested parts of India and Russia, and official objections continue to mount. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s new national map has set off a wave of protests. Why?

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Pope Francis is greeted by Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, left, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, and faithful gathered outside the Apostolic Prefecture in Ulaanbaatar's Kahn Uul district, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia to encourage one of the world's smallest and newest Catholic communities. It's the first time a pope has visited the Asian country and comes at a time when the Vatican's relations with Mongolia's two powerful neighbors, Russia and China, are once again strained. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)

Pope arrives on first visit to Mongolia as Vatican relations with Russia and China remain strained

By Nicole Winfield And Saruul Enkhbold - Associated Press

Foreign Minister Tobias Billström, background, listens, during a press briefing together with U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, foreground and Gregory Meeks, in Stockholm, Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. The United States House Foreign Affairs chair says that a partnership of the Russian and Chinese leaders worries him, saying: “We have never seen a threat this large-scale to Europe and the Pacific, I would argue, since World War II.” (Henrik Montgomery/TT News Agency via AP)

McCaul calls Russia-China alliance the biggest threat since WWII

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Hong Kong, other parts of south China grind to near standstill as Super Typhoon Saola edges closer

By Kanis Leung - Associated Press

In this photo provided by U.S. Embassy, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, left, eats a local fig at JA farmer’s market in Soma city, Fukushima prefecture, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. U.S. Ambassador Emanuel visited a northern Fukushima city Thursday and had seafood lunch with the mayor, talked to fishermen and stocked up on local produce at a grocery store to show they're all safe after the release of treated radioactive wastewater from the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi plant to the sea, backing Japan effort while criticizing China's ban on Japanese seafood as political.(U.S. Embassy via AP)

U.S. envoy visits Fukushima to eat fish, criticize China’s seafood ban over wastewater release

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Japanese Emperor Naruhito, center, accompanied by Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, inspects an honor guard upon his arrival at the Presidential Palace in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Monday, June 19, 2023. The Japanese royals are on a weeklong visit in the country, their first official friendship trip abroad since ascending the Chrysanthemum Throne four years ago. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, Pool) ** FILE **

U.S., Indonesia and 5 other nations hold war drills amid China concerns

By Niniek Karmini - Associated Press

Typhoon Saola strengthens as it passes Taiwan on its way to China

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, left, and Chinese Vice President Han Zheng shake hands before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. (Florence Lo/Pool Photo via AP)

Britain’s top diplomat raises human rights concerns with China but stresses “pragmatic” relationship

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In this Sept. 28, 2016, photo, participants in traditional dress stand near an oversized portrait of Confucius during a ceremony to observe the 2567th anniversary of his birth in Beijing. A Chinese government department announced on Monday, May 27, 2019, that China is running five-day Confucian culture immersion courses for religious leaders in the sage's hometown as part of a campaign to extend government control over faith communities through a process of sinicization. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) **FILE**

Just 1 in 10 Chinese say they’re affiliated with a ‘formal’ religion: Pew study

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping upon the latter's arrival at a hotel in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. India is protesting a new Chinese map that lays claim to India’s territory ahead of next week's Group of 20 summit in New Delhi, a foreign ministry official said on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, exacerbating tensions during a three-year military standoff between the two nations. The timing of the protest is key, as Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend the summit of industrialized and developing countries. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, File)

India protests China’s land claim ahead of the G20 summit President Xi Jinping is expected to attend

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Swamp Justice Dept. going after Trump Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Crippling costs and corrosive effects of Democrats’ lawfare on Trump and his advisers

By Peter Navarro

FILE - Britain's Foreign Secretary James Cleverly addresses the closing session on the second day of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London, on June 22, 2023. Cleverly is set to visit China on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023 in the first trip by a U.K. foreign secretary to the country in more than five years. (Henry Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)

Britain’s foreign secretary will visit China in an attempt to shore up ties and reduce tensions

By Simina Mistreanu and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, left, talks with Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, right, ahead of a trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Hiroshima, Japan, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Biden aims to further tighten security and economic ties between Japan and South Korea, two nations that have struggled to stay on speaking terms, as he welcomes their leaders to the rustic Camp David presidential retreat Friday, Aug. 18. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

What was ignored at the Trilateral Summit at Camp David

By Jianli Yang and Sean Woo