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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency personnel work at the scene following a drone attack in the town of Rzhyshchiv, Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Photo)

Russian drones kill 4 at Ukraine dorm, as rival summits end

By Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walk after their dinner at The Palace of the Facets in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China calls Xi’s Russia visit one of friendship, peace

Associated Press

A worker in protective gear collects a sample from a resident at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Nov. 29, 2022. China's sudden reopening after two years holding to a "zero-COVID" strategy left older people vulnerable and hospitals and pharmacies unprepared during the season when the virus spreads most easily, leading to many avoidable deaths, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

Illustration on power confrontation between China and the USA by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Republicans seem in no hurry to address China problem

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks by phone with the Czech Republic's President elect Petr Pavel in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 30, 2023. The Biden administration has been stressing to Beijing that an expected unofficial visit to the United States by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

U.S. tells China a Taiwan president stopover is ‘nothing new’

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, center, arrives at a church in Bucha, a town outside Kyiv that became a symbol of Russian atrocities against civilians, in Ukraine, Tuesday, March 21, 2023.(Iori Sagisawa/Kyodo News via AP)

Dueling summits as Kishida makes surprise Kyiv trip in midst of Xi-Putin talks

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Illustration on China's growing influence by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

China’s growing worldwide influence has set off alarm bells, but is anyone listening?

By Tom Jurkowsky

Chinese President Xi Jinping leaves the Russian Government building after his talks with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)

Japanese leader arrives in Kyiv as China’s Xi visits Russia

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta speaks during the post-Cabinet press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, March 7, 2022. Foreign Minister Mahuta will visit her counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing this week in the first trip by a New Zealand minister to China in four years, officials said Monday, March 20, 2023. (Mark Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP, File)

New Zealand’s foreign minister to visit counterpart in China

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles meets with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon on Feb. 3, 2023, Washington. Richard said his country has made no promises to the United States that Australia would support its ally in any future conflict over Taiwan in exchange for American nuclear-powered submarines. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf, File)

Australia won’t promise to side with U.S. in Taiwan conflict

By Rod McGuirk - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 20, 2023. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi send chilly words to Western world; Chinese leader offers lifeline as Ukraine war churns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Then Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, left, and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Shangri-la Hotel on Nov. 7, 2015, in Singapore. Former Taiwan President Ma will visit China next week, in what a spokesman called an independent bid to ease tensions between the self-ruled island and the mainland. Ma, who's a member of the opposition Nationalist Party (Kuomingtang), will lead a delegation of academics and students as well as his former presidential staffers from March 27 to April 7, his office said Sunday. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou will visit China

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

The TikTok Inc. building is seen in Culver City, Calif., on Friday, March 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) **FILE**

High-profile users will help lobby for TikTok; CEO aims to ease concerns on Capitol Hill

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Russia and U.S. reaper drone illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Incompetence of Defense Department’s leadership puts America’s safety at risk

By Newt Gingrich

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 20, 2023. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin welcomes China’s Xi to Kremlin amid Ukraine fighting

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. The Chinese government said Xi would visit Moscow from March 20 to March 22, 2023, but gave no indication when he departed. The Russian government said Xi was due to arrive at midday and meet later with Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

China’s Xi meeting Putin in boost for isolated Russia leader

By Emily Wang Fujiyama and Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Illustration on China's help in a new Saudi/Iran agreement by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

China’s Saudi-Iran gambit

By Jed Babbin

China's President Xi Jinping claps as he listens to Russian President Vladimir Putin via a video link, from the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2019. China said Friday, March 17, 2023, President Xi will visit Russia from Monday, March 20, to Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in an apparent show of support for Russian President Putin. (Noel Celis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

China’s coming ‘Global Civilization’ is evil cloaked in good

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021, security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. International scientists have examined previously unavailable genetic data from samples collected at a market in China close to where the first human cases of COVID-19 were detected and said they have found suggestions the pandemic originated from animals, not a lab. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

New COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market

By Dake Kang and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

This combination photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 16, 2022, and China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2019. China says Xi will visit Russia from Monday, March 10, 2023, to Wednesday in an apparent show of support for Putin. (Sergei Bobylev, Noel Celis/Pool Photos via AP, File)

China’s Xi to visit Putin amid Beijing’s bolder global role

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press