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Japanese coast guard officers patrol in a rubber boat as Japanese activists hang their national flag on a small lighthouse and its perimeter on Uotsuri, the largest island in a small archipelago known in Japan as the Senkaku Islands and in China as the Diaoyu Islands, on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Japanese activists land, raise flags on disputed isle

By Emily Wang - Associated Press

Miss China Crowned Miss World 2012

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Illustration China Collapse by John Camejo for The Washington Times

RADVANYI: Communist China on the verge of collapse

By Miklos K. Radvanyi

Israeli schoolchildren wear gas masks during a drill in the central Israeli city of Lod in 2007. Matan Vilnai, Israel’s outgoing civil defense chief, said in an assessment published Wednesday that an attack on Iran’s nuclear sites would likely trigger a drawn-out war that would last for a month and kill as many as 500 Israelis. (Associated Press)

Israel’s civil defense chief assesses strike on Iran

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

Uotsuri Island, one of the East China Sea islands known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese, is claimed by Japan, China and Taiwan. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

Asian island dispute flares on WWII anniversary

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Uotsuri Island, one of the islands of Senkaku as the Japanese call it and Diaoyu as the Chinese refer to it, is located in the East China Sea. Activists from China and South Korea used Wednesday’s anniversary of the end of World War II to press rival sea territory claims, prompting 14 arrests by Japanese police. (Kyodo News via Associated Press)

Dispute with Japan over islands flares up

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Illustration China's Aid to Africa by John Camejo for The Washington Times

THALER: China’s foreign aid to Africa

By Farah Thaler

**FILE** A sign marks Wall Street in New York. (Associated Press)

Stocks fall as economic malaise spreads to Japan

By Daniel Wagner - Associated Press

SANDERS: Demography as the soft underbelly of geopolitics

By Sol Sanders

FILE- In this Thursday, Aug. 2, 2012, file photo, U.S. gymnast Gabrielle Douglas displays her gold medal during the artistic gymnastics women's individual all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London. With the gymnastics competition over, the U.S. women's gymnastics team is beginning to realize just how big a deal they've become back home. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Medal count 2012 Olympics: U.S. will go home with the most

By Tim Reynolds - Associated Press

**FILE** Former Chongqing Communist Party Secretary Bo Xilai (right), accompanied by his wife Gu Kailai, attends a funeral for his father in Beijing on Jan. 17, 2007. (Associated Press)

China: Politician’s wife admitted murdering Brit

By Scott McDonald - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Winner take all’

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** FILE ** Bo Xilai, then the Chongqing Communist Party secretary, attends a plenary session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

4 police officers tried in China political scandal

By Christopher Bodeen - Associated Press

**FILE** A family stands next to a statue depicting a typical Chinese family with one child in Shanghai in 2008. (Associated Press)

U.N. urged to probe China’s 1-child policy

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

Gu Kailai (center), the wife of disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai, stands trial in the Intermediate People's Court in the eastern Chinese city of Hefei on Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012. (AP Photo/CCTV via APTN)

Chinese politician’s wife doesn’t deny killing Brit

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

**FILE** A sign marks Wall Street in New York. (Associated Press)

Stocks waver; signs on the economy hard to read

By Christina Rexrode - Associated Press

Kim Dong-hun inspects the wooden grave markers at the “enemy cemetery,” where Chinese and North Korean soldiers who died in the Korean War are buried, just south of the Demilitarized Zone in Paju, South Korea. Mr. Kim, a South Korean who lives near the cemetery, would like to see it upgraded to make it a tourist destination. “My fellow countrymen were left in the wild by themselves. So lonely,” said Chinese businessman Huang Zhun (below), the son of a Korean War veteran who survived. (Associated Press)

S. Korea’s ‘enemy cemetery’ desolate

By Hyung-Jin Kim And Didi Tang - Associated Press

Cameron is latest to sign deals with China

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

**FILE** The string of islands known as Senkaku islands in Japanese, and Diaoyu in Chinese, are seen here Sept. 29, 2010. Relations between China and Japan were strained when a Chinese fishing boat collided with Japanese patrol vessels earlier that month near the islands in the East China Sea that are claimed by both countries as well as Taiwan. (Associated Press)

China to U.S.: ‘Shut up,’ butt out of territorial disputes

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times