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Travelers crowd at a departure lobby of Haneda airport in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 29, 2022. Japan on Thursday reported a record 420 single-day coronavirus deaths, one day after reaching an earlier record of 425 deaths, according to the Health Ministry. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan tests all China arrivals for COVID as cases surge

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, seen onscreen, via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Dec. 30, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi hold talks as Russia fires another Ukraine barrage

By Felipe Dana - Associated Press

Shoppers buy fresh produces at a supermarket in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. China is on a bumpy road back to normal life as schools, shopping malls and restaurants fill up again following the abrupt end of some of the world's most severe restrictions even as hospitals are swamped with feverish, wheezing COVID-19 patients. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China faces bumpy road to normal as infections surge

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In this undated file photo released by the Taiwan Ministry of Defense, a Chinese PLA J-16 fighter jet flies in an undisclosed location. (Taiwan Ministry of Defense via AP, File)

U.S. to sell Taiwan anti-tank system amid rising China threat

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President Joe Biden speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as they meet in the Oval Office of the White House, Dec. 21, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Biden stumbles into third year with looming global conflicts

By Guy Taylor and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

An officer collects passports from residents for renewal and re-applications at a community police station in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years, setting up a potential flood of Chinese going abroad for next month's Lunar New Year holiday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Lack of info on China’s COVID-19 surge stirs global concern

By Ken Moritsugu and Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

A woman wearing a mask walks along a mall in Beijing, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022. China says it will resume issuing passports for tourism in another big step away from anti-virus controls that isolated the country for almost three years, setting up a potential flood of Chinese going abroad for next month's Lunar New Year holiday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China to resume issuing passports, visas as virus curbs ease

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Illustration on Iran and Kazakhstan by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Kazakhstan faces challenging times and deserve U.S. support

By Kamran Bokhari

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)

Chinese leader invokes Mao’s anti-fleas campaign

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen speaks during an announcement of the extension of the island's compulsory military service in Taipei, Taiwan on Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022. Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to a year starting in 2024, Tsai said Tuesday, as the self-ruled island faces China's military, diplomatic and trade pressure. (AP Photo/Huizhong Wu)

Taiwan extends compulsory military service to 1 year

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Masked commuters walk through a walkway in between two subway stations as they head to work during the morning rush hour in Beijing on Dec. 20, 2022. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday, Dec. 27, that Japan will tighten border controls against COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Japan to require COVID-19 tests for all visitors from China

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Inbound travelers wait for hours to board buses to leave for quarantine hotels and facilities from Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in southern China's Guangdong province on Dec. 25 2022. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced Tuesday that Japan will tighten border controls against COVID-19 by requiring tests for all visitors from China starting Friday as a temporary emergency measure against the surging infections there. (AP Photo/Emily Wang Fujiyama, File)

Companies welcome end to China quarantines for visitors

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

A worker wearing a face mask sits near the closed exit of a subway station in Beijing, Wednesday, May 4, 2022. Beijing on Wednesday closed around 10% of the stations in its vast subway system as an additional measure against the spread of coronavirus. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China to scrap COVID-19 quarantine for incoming passengers

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A nurse prepares a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at a community health center in Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu province on Dec. 9, 2022. (Chinatopix Via AP)

China races to vaccinate elderly, but many are reluctant

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this photo released by the Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo prior to their talks on the sideline of the 12th East Asia Summit foreign ministers' meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Aug. 5, 2022. Wang defended his country's position on the war in Ukraine on Sunday, Dec. 25, and signaled that China would deepen ties with Russia in the coming year while striving to bring U.S.-China ties back on the right course. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, File)

China’s foreign minister signals deeper ties with Russia

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In this Aug. 9, 2016, file photo, a bag of 4-fluoro isobutyryl fentanyl which was seized in a drug raid is displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Testing and Research Laboratory in Sterling, Va. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

China involved in ‘asymmetrical warfare’ against U.S. through fentanyl trafficking, Rep. Fallon says

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, fighter jets of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conduct joint combat training exercises around Taiwan on Aug. 7, 2022. China's military stepped up its provocative military operations around Taiwan over the weekend, flying over 100 military aircraft near the island democracy it has vowed one day to take over. (Gong Yulong/Xinhua via AP, File)

China begins military exercises around Taiwan, blasts U.S. aid as ‘escalations of provocations’

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Masked commuters walk through a walkway in between two subway stations as they head to work during the morning rush hour in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. China continues to adapt to an easing of strict virus containment regulations. About three years ago, the original version of the coronavirus spread from China to the rest of the world and was eventually replaced by the delta variant, then omicron and its descendants, which continue plaguing the world today. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

China’s COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus mutant

By Laura Ungar and Aniruddha Ghosal - Associated Press

A hospital worker in protective gear disinfects the ward of an emergency department of Baigou New Area Aerospace Hospital in Baigou in northern China's Hebei province on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. As China grapples with its first-ever wave of COVID mass infections, emergency wards in the towns and cities to Beijing's southwest are overwhelmed. Intensive care units are turning away ambulances, residents are driving sick relatives from hospital to hospital, and patients are lying on floors for a lack of space. (AP Photo)

Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese towns

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, fighter jets of the Eastern Theater Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) conduct joint combat training exercises around Taiwan on Aug. 7, 2022. China's military stepped up its provocative military operations around Taiwan over the weekend, flying over 100 military aircraft near the island democracy it has vowed one day to take over. (Gong Yulong/Xinhua via AP, File)

China blasts U.S. defense bill while Taiwan welcomes it

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