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This photo provided by Jason Sellers shows U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft shooting down a suspected Chinese spy balloon off the Carolina coast on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. President Joe Biden said on Saturday that he ordered U.S. officials to shoot down the suspected Chinese spy balloon earlier this week and that national security leaders decided the best time for the operation was when it got over water. (Jason Sellers via AP)

China says U.S. shooting down balloon a ‘serious violation of international practice’

By Zeke Miller, Michael Balsamo, Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani and Lolita C. Blador - Associated Press

A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon sailed across the U.S. on Friday, drawing severe Pentagon accusations of spying and sending excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars. Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly canceled a high-stakes Beijing trip aimed at easing U.S.-China tensions. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

Sen. Jon Tester readies defense panel for hearing into Chinese balloon

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Travelers wearing face masks with their luggage head to the immigration counter at the departure hall at Lok Ma Chau station following the reopening of crossing border with mainland China, in Hong Kong, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. Hong Kong authorities announced Friday, Feb. 3, 2023, that they will lift a quota on the number of cross-border travelers with China and scrap mandatory COVID-19 PCR testing requirements as both places seek to drive economic growth. (AP Photo/Bertha Wang, File)

China, Hong Kong scrap cross-border travel quota, COVID test

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign event at the South Carolina Statehouse, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump slams Biden for allowing Chinese balloon over U.S.

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on war with China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Team Biden’s diplomacy will not prevent China from attacking Taiwan

By Jed Babbin

A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon sailed across the U.S. on Friday, drawing severe Pentagon accusations of spying and sending excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars. Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly canceled a high-stakes Beijing trip aimed at easing U.S.-China tensions. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

Second Chinese spy balloon flying over Latin America, Pentagon says

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Nusa Dua on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, July 9, 2022. Blinken has postponed a planned high-stakes weekend diplomatic trip to China as the Biden administration weighs a broader response to the discovery of a high-altitude Chinese balloon flying over sensitive sites in the western United States, a U.S. official said Friday. (Stefani Reynolds/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Blinken postpones China trip following balloon discovery

By Emily Wang Fujiyama, Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

A high-altitude balloon floats over Billings, Mont., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. The huge, high-altitude Chinese balloon sailed across the U.S. on Friday, drawing severe Pentagon accusations of spying and sending excited or alarmed Americans outside with binoculars. Secretary of State Antony Blinken abruptly canceled a high-stakes Beijing trip aimed at easing U.S.-China tensions. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

White House calls Chinese balloon flight over U.S. ‘unacceptable’ violation of sovereignty

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, second from left, walks past military guards during his arrival at the Department of National Defense in Camp Aguinaldo military camp in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on Thursday February 2, 2023. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)

Pentagon bolsters U.S. military’s strategic reach in securing four sites in Philippines

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China held Taiwan war council in October, general’s memo reveals

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, Aug. 25, 2022. The European Union's digital policy chief warned TikTok's boss Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023 that the social media app will have to fall in line with tough new rules for online platforms set to take effect later this year. EU Commissioner Thierry Breton held a video call with Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, the popular Chinese-owned video sharing app that's coming under increasing scrutiny from Western authorities over fears about data privacy, cybersecurity and misinformation. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Biden’s cyberspace ambassador wants less anti-China, anti-Russia talk on tech

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

John Kerry, United States special presidential envoy for climate, takes part in a discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 16 until Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) **FILE**

House Republicans launch probe into Biden climate envoy John Kerry

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, second from left, walks past military guards during his arrival at the Department of National Defense in Camp Aguinaldo military camp in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on Thursday February 2, 2023. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S., Philippines agree to larger American military presence with access to four more bases

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

You Si-Kun, left speaks with a translator to reporters following an address at the 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times)

Taiwan legislative leader says island has religious freedom, which China lacks

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this April 2, 2021, photo, two women in an electric car drive into a Tesla delivery location and service center in Corte Madera, Calif. California’s Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing whether Tesla is violating a state regulation by advertising its vehicles as being fully autonomous without meeting the legal definition of self-driving. The department says Monday, May 17, 2021, that the regulation prohibits advertising vehicles for sale or lease as autonomous if the regulation isn’t met. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg) **FILE**

Lawmakers pursue new rules of the road for driverless vehicles to win race against China

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP) ** FILE **

Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic missile

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Taiwanese Mirage 2000 fighter jets taxi along a runway during a drill at an airbase in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in response to nearby operations of 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing's strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai, File)

Taiwan activates defenses in response to China incursions

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg answers a question from students at Keio University in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

NATO chief wants more ‘friends’ as Russia, China move closer

By Mari Yamaguchi and Haruka Nuga - Associated Press

Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer is proposing the Economic Justice Act, using the coronavirus relief package to address “structural inequalities have persisted in health care and housing, the economy and education.” (Associated Press/File)

Spotlight shifts to Schumer amid pressure to ban U.S. oil sales to China

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during The United States Conference of Mayors, Jan. 18, 2023, in Washington. Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend in his first trip to the Middle East this year. It comes amid an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence, U.S. concerns over the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government and ongoing issues with Egypt’s human rights record. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Taiwan, North Korea and other tricky issues loom over Blinken’s China trip

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times