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Sri Lankan Buddhist monks wait for the arrival of President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Mattala Rajapaksa International Air Port in Mattala, Sri Lanka, Monday, March 18, 2013. The Chinese-funded airport built in the president’s hometown away from most of the country’s population is so barely used that elephants have been spotted wandering on its tarmac. (AP Photo/Sanka Gayashan, File)

China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman Rep. James Comer Jr., R-Ky., accompanied by House Republicans, speaks during a news conference on their investigation into the Biden family on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, May 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

House probe: More foreign deals suggest Biden was planning a well-heeled retirement, says Comer

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, left, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, greet each other during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 21, 2023. President Zelenskyy will join leaders of the world’s most powerful democracies in Hiroshima, Japan, making his furthest trip from of his war-torn country as leaders are set to unveil new sanctions on Russia for its invasion. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)

Zelenskyy to attend G-7 summit Sunday as world leaders tighten sanctions against Russia over Ukraine

By Zeke Miller, Foster Klug and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

New Taipei City Mayor Hou You-yi delivers a speech during a press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Taiwan's Nationalist Party has selected the current New Taipei City mayor Hou, as their candidate in the upcoming presidential elections next year. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Taiwan opposition party picks New Taipei mayor, a former police chief, as its presidential candidate

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Security personnel gather near the entrance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team in Wuhan in China's Hubei province on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. The WHO team is investigating the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has visited two disease control centers in the province. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) **FILE**

National Institutes of Health cuts off Wuhan Institute of Virology from taxpayer funding

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers a speech on the second day of her five-day visit in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, May 17, 2023. (AP Photo/ Chiang Ying-ying)

Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss warns of China threats during Taiwan visit

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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin arrives to testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense hearing on the fiscal year 2024 budget request of the Department of Defense, Thursday, May 11, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin outlines Pentagon’s plan to deter war with China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden poses for photos with Pacific Island leaders including Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, center, and Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, Sept. 29, 2022. On Wednesday, May 17, Biden canceled a visit to Papua New Guinea planned for May 22 to focus on debt limit talks at home, disappointing many in the Pacific Island nation. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Distracted: Biden’s Quad summit no-show rattles U.S. allies in Pacific

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee speaks during a news conference in Hong Kong, March 21, 2023. Hong Kong’s leader on Tuesday, May 16, 2023, said Beijing’s sentencing on spying charges of a U.S. citizen who was also a permanent resident of the semi-autonomous Chinese city was justification for a years-long crackdown on activities deemed subversive. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)

Hong Kong leader says China’s sentencing of U.S. citizen exposes national security threats

By Kanis Leung - Associated Press

A Chinese paramilitary policemen stands guard outside the Swedish embassy during the opening ceremony for Diversity Week in Beijing, Friday, May 12, 2023. On Monday, May 15, 2023, the advocacy group the Beijing LGBT Center became the latest organization to close under a crackdown by Chinese leader Xi Jinping's government. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Beijing LGBT Center shuttered as crackdown grows in China

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Farmland is seen with solar panels from Cypress Creek Renewables, Oct. 28, 2021, in Thurmont, Md. The Senate has approved a measure that would reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from several Southeast Asian countries after President Joe Biden paused them in a bid to boost solar installations in the U.S. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez) **FILE**

Biden vetoes bid by Congress to reinstate tariffs on solar panel imports from SE Asia

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a J-15 Chinese fighter jet takes off from the Shandong aircraft carrier during the combat readiness patrol and military exercises around the Taiwan Island by the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) on Sunday, April 9, 2023. China's military declared Monday it is "ready to fight" after completing three days of large-scale combat exercises around Taiwan that simulated sealing off the island in response to the Taiwanese president's trip to the U.S. last week. (An Ni/Xinhua via AP)

China says ready to ‘smash’ Taiwan self-rule as U.S. prepares major arms package, sends advisers

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Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during an interview with foreign media members at the prime minister's office on April 20, 2023, in Tokyo. For the summit of the leaders of the Group of Seven wealth democracies starting on May 19 in Hiroshima, Kishida has also invited eight other guest countries: South Korea; Australia; India; Brazil; Vietnam; Indonesia; Comoros and the Cook Islands. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Guest nations at the G-7 reflect outreach to developing countries, worries over China, Russia

By Hyung-Jin Kim and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

A vendor sets up foods and beverages at a booth displaying China and American flags during a Spring Carnival in Beijing, on May 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

China sentences U.S. citizen to life in prison on espionage charges

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron visits the Aluminium Dunkerque factory in Dunkirk, northern France, Friday, May 12, 2023. Macron announced two major investments in the Dunkirk region, both in the battery sector: one worth 5.2 billion euros by Taiwan's group Prologium, the other one via a joint venture of China's XTC with French giant Orano worth 1.5 billion euros. (Pascal Rossignol/Pool Photo via AP)

Macron vows to build back factories, boost France’s economy shaken by pension protests

By Sylvie Corbet - Associated Press

The flags of the U.S. and Chinese are displayed together on top of a trishaw in Beijing on Sept. 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China sentences U.S. citizen to life in prison on spying charges

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Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks during a news conference following a vote on H.R. 2, a bill to build more U.S.-Mexico border wall and impose new restrictions on asylum seekers, in the Rayburn Room at the Capitol Building in Washington, Thursday, May 11, 2023. Democrats, who have a narrow hold on the Senate, have decried the aggressive measures in the bill as “cruel” and “anti-immigrant," and President Joe Biden has already promised he would veto it. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

House Foreign Affairs chair warns default would be gift for China

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks on the debt limit during an event at SUNY Westchester Community College, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Valhalla, N.Y. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Biden’s reelection pitch that he can govern well faces daunting challenges with debt, border, more

By Zeke Miller - Associated Press

Trade Minister Don Farrell is interviewed at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 16, 2023. Australian Trade and Tourism Minister Don Farrell visited China on Thursday, May 11, 2023, as part of a joint effort to repair ties scarred by political rifts over the past decade. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)

Australian trade minister visits China as part of joint efforts to repair ties

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Avril Haines, director of National Intelligence, testifies during the Senate Armed Services hearing to examine worldwide threats, Thursday, May 4, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

China expands targeting of U.S with Russian-style covert influence operations

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times