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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit April 16 (local time) through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance with international law. (U.S. Navy photo)

U.S. Navy warship transits Taiwan Strait, in first passage since major Chinese drills

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong addresses the National Press Club in Canberra, Monday, April 17, 2023. Australia was working to stabilize relations with China but could not return to the thriving economic relationship with its biggest trading partner that existed 15 years ago, Wong said. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)

Australia says Chinese relations won’t improve to past highs

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

A six-story glass facade building, center, is believed to be the site of a foreign police outpost for China in New York's Chinatown, Monday, April 17, 2023. Justice Department officials say two men have been arrested on charges that they helped establish a secret police outpost in New York City on behalf of the Chinese government. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

FBI arrests two in connection with secret Chinese ‘police station’ in New York

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping after meeting the press at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, on April 6, 2023. In the weeks since Chinese leader Xi Jinping won a third five-year term as president, setting him on course to remain in power for life, leaders and diplomats from around the world have beaten a path to his door. None more so than those from Europe. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, Pool, File)

EU leaders beat a path to Xi’s door seeking China’s help

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Police officers stand guard near the venue of the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting Sunday, April 16, 2023, in Karuizawa, a resort town north of Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Diplomats gather in Japan at ‘historic turning point’

By Foster Klug - Associated Press

Vehicles carrying DF-17 ballistic missiles roll during a parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in Beijing, Oct. 1, 2019. China said Friday, April 14, 2023, that it carried out a successful ground-based mid-course missile interception test in an apparent sign of progress in its ability to bring down weapons incoming from space. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China says conducted mid-course missile interception test

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Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, left, listens as President Joe Biden speaks during the closing session at the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit on promoting food security and food systems resilience in Washington, Dec. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

U.S. steps up its game, but China has a head start in Africa

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang speaks during a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Friday, April 14, 2023. (Suo Takekuma/Pool Photo via AP)

China vows not to sell arms to any party in Ukraine war

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, and first lady Rosangela Silva, second left, receive flowers presented by children from the Shanghai Children's Palace of the China Welfare Institute upon arrival in Shanghai, China on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Lula was in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Thursday in a bid to boost ties with the South American giant's biggest trade partner and win political support for attempts to mediate the conflict in Ukraine. (Gao Feng/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi to meet Brazil’s Lula in Beijing

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U.S. Gen. Charles Flynn, left, Commanding General USARPAC, shakes hands with Philippine Army Commanding Gen., Lt. Gen. Romeo Brawner during a joint military exercise called "Balikatan," Tagalog for shoulder-to-shoulder at Fort Magsaysay, Nueva Ecija province, northern Philippines, Thursday, April 13, 2023. This year's Balikatan exercises between the treaty allies are the largest since the two sides started joint military combat-readiness exercises in the early 1990s. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

U.S. displays firepower in combat drills with Philippines

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, center, and first lady Rosangela Silva, second left, receive flowers presented by children from the Shanghai Children's Palace of the China Welfare Institute upon arrival in Shanghai, China on Wednesday, April 12, 2023. Lula was in the Chinese financial hub of Shanghai on Thursday in a bid to boost ties with the South American giant's biggest trade partner and win political support for attempts to mediate the conflict in Ukraine. (Gao Feng/Xinhua via AP)

Brazil’s Lula in Shanghai on visit to boost ties with China

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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, April 9, 2023. China’s local maritime authorities have issued a warning for possible rocket debris in waters northeast of Taiwan, saying ships would be banned from entering the area on April 16. The announcement comes after China held large-scale military drills that formally ended Monday in response to Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen's transit visit last week to the United States. (An Ni/Xinhua via AP, File)

China warns of rocket debris in area northeast of Taiwan

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

China's Peng Shuai serves to Japan's Nao Hibino during their first round singles match at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 21, 2020. The women’s professional tennis tour is ending its suspension of tournaments in China that was initiated in late 2021 over concerns about Grand Slam doubles champion Peng Shuai’s well-being. The WTA announced Thursday, April 13, 2023, that it will return to competition in China this season, even though two of its key requests were never met: a chance to meet with Peng, and a thorough, transparent investigation of her sexual assault accusations against a high-ranking Chinese government official. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)

Women’s tennis tour ends Peng Shuai-inspired China boycott

By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

Supporters of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai hold up T-shirts ahead of the women's final at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022. The women’s professional tennis tour will bring its events back to China later this year, announcing on Thursday, April 13, 2023, the end of a boycott instituted in late 2021 over concerns about the safety of former player Peng Shuai after she accused a high-ranking government official there of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Tertius Pickard, File)

Why is women’s tennis China boycott over Peng Shuai ending?

By Howard Fendrich - Associated Press

Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks with the media as she arrives for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels on April 4, 2023. Germany's government appealed for efforts to reduce tension over Taiwan as the German foreign minister flew to China for official talks following Chinese military exercises near the self-ruled island democracy Beijing claims is part of its territory. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, File)

Germany appeals for reducing tensions over Taiwan

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China's Taiwan War Rehearsal Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

China rehearsing for a Taiwan invasion, and U.S. needs to act

By James Fanell and Bradley A. Thayer

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a worker arranges raw filaments at the production base of Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co., Ltd. in Xining, northwest China's Qinghai Province on Feb. 22, 2023. China's factory activity accelerated in February as the economy revived following the end of anti-virus controls that kept millions of people at home and disrupted travel and trade, two surveys showed Wednesday, March 1. (Wu Gang/Xinhua via AP)

Normal no more: It’s time to review China’s trade status

By Andrew J. Harding

In this June 20, 2019, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un wave from an open-top limousine as they travel along a street in Pyongyang, North Korea. Since taking power after his father’s death in 2011, Kim has spent 10 years erasing doubts that he was too young and weak to extend his family’s brutal dynastic grip over the impoverished, nuclear-armed state. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP, File)

China, North Korea building underwater strike drones

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

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 Taiwan encirclement drills a ‘serious warning’

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