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FILE - This April 18, 2019, file photo shows a sign for Zoom Video Communications ahead Nasdaq IPO in New York. Video app company Zoom said Thursday, June 11 2020, it regretted that some meetings involving U.S.-based Chinese dissidents were disrupted, as meanwhile a prominent Hong Kong activist said his account was blocked despite the city’s guarantees of free speech. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

Zoom caught in China censorship crossfire as meetings foiled

By ZEN SOO - Associated Press

In this file photo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a press briefing at the State Department on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, in Washington. (Nicholas Kamm/Pool Photo via AP) **FILE**

Mike Pompeo slams ‘obscene’ Chinese propaganda on riots

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

People set fire to vehicles during a protest, Saturday, May 30, 12020 in Seattle. Protests were held throughout the country over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police officers on May 25. (Dean Rutz/The Seattle Times via AP)

China state media: George Floyd protests in U.S. a ‘beautiful sight’

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 22, 2019 file photo, an American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington. The Department of Justice says in a statement that hackers have been attempting to obtain intellectual property and public health data related to vaccines, treatments, and testing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

US says Chinese hackers likely targeting virus researchers

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In this March 10, 2020, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP) ** FILE **

Chinese hackers likely targeting U.S. coronavirus researchers, FBI warns

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday, May 6, 2020. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP)

Mike Pompeo presses case against China over virus origin cover-up, Taiwan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

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Americans filing class-action lawsuits against Chinese government

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

In this March 10, 2020, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping talks by video with patients and medical workers at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via AP) ** FILE **

Missouri sues Chinese Communist Party for ‘billions of dollars’ in coronavirus costs

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 8, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) ** FILE **

Pompeo: China blocking access to lab suspected of coronavirus link

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping visits the Chuanshan port area of the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in east China's Zhejiang Province, Sunday, March 29, 2020. Authorities in China are working to restart its industries as number of new coronavirus cases and deaths fall in the country. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via AP)

China cracks down on coronavirus data as new report rebuts official death toll

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A market in Wuhan, China, has been widely reported to be the origin of the outbreak of a bat virus that erupted into a pandemic, but the market in question does not sell bats. (Associated Press)

Coronavirus lab escape theory advances

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this June 29, 2019, file photo, President Donald Trump, left, meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan. President Trump on Jan. 9, 2020, suggested that the balance of a far-reaching trade deal with China might be put off until after the 2020 election. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) **FILE**

U.S. scientists say China hampers search for origin of deadly virus

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Police stand guard outside Wuhan Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market, where a number of people related to the market fell ill with a virus in Wuhan, China, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. Heightened precautions were being taken in China and elsewhere Tuesday as governments strove to control the outbreak of the coronavirus, which threatens to grow during the Lunar New Year travel rush. (AP Photo/Dake Kang)

China researchers isolated bat coronaviruses near Wuhan wild animal market

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this June 5, 2019, photo, residents of the Hui Muslim ethnic minority walk in a neighborhood near an OFILM factory in Nanchang in eastern China's Jiangxi province. The Associated Press has found that OFILM, a supplier of major multinational companies, employs Uighurs, an ethnic Turkic minority, under highly restrictive conditions, including not letting them leave the factory compound without a chaperone, worship, or wear headscarves. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China-made phones, tablets tainted by coerced Uighur labor

By DAKE KANG and YANAN WANG - Associated Press

This Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, file photo shows the icon for TikTok taken in New York. (AP Photo)

Teens love the video app TikTok. Do they love it too much?

By TALI ARBEL - Associated Press

Media wear face masks to protect themselves from a new virus wait China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi's arrival at Wattay Airport for the Special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Vientiane, Laos, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Wall Street Journal reporters expelled by China for ‘racist’ report

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this April 19, 2019, photo, foreigners pass by the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing, China. China on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020 said it has revoked the press credentials of three reporters for the U.S. newspaper Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column deemed by the government to be racist and slanderous. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China revokes 3 Wall Street Journal reporters’ credentials

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In this Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, file photo, a doctor attends to a patient in an isolation ward at a hospital in Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province. Foreign evacuees from China's worst-hit region returned home to medical observation and even isolation. (Chinatopix via AP, File)

Coronavirus is deadly serious

By Ethan Epstein - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, the statue of John Harvard sits in Harvard Yard at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Federal prosecutors on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, charged Harvard University professor Charles Leiber, chair of the department of chemistry and chemical biology, with lying to officials about his involvement with a Chinese government-run recruitment program through which he received tens of thousands of dollars. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Harvard professor charged with hiding China ties, payments

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

In this Monday, Dec. 3, 2018, photo, a guard tower and barbed wire fences are seen around a facility in the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. People in touch with state employees in China say the government in the far west region of Xinjiang is destroying documents and taking other steps to tighten control on information. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

AP Exclusive: China tightens up on info after Xinjiang leaks

By The Associated Press - Associated Press