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Chinese President Xi Jinping walks during a welcome ceremony for Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein) ** FILE **

Social Credit System, China mass surveillance tool, designed to enforce political control

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks with reporters at the State Department, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

US criticizes China for abuses revealed by leaked cables

By MATTHEW LEE - Associated Press

A sample of classified Chinese government documents leaked to a consortium of news organizations, is displayed for a picture in New York, Friday, Nov. 22, 2019. Beijing has detained more than a million Uighurs, ethnic Kazakhs and other Muslim minorities for what it calls voluntary job training. The confidential documents lay out the Chinese government's deliberate strategy to lock up ethnic minorities to rewire their thoughts and even the language they speak. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Secret documents reveal how China mass detention camps work

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Emerson College student Frances Hui poses in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. Tensions over Hong Kong have been flaring at campuses around the world that host large numbers of visiting Chinese students. Hui, of Hong Kong, faced threatening language from classmates from mainland China after she published a column in the student newspaper, &quot;I am from Hong Kong, not China.&quot; (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Tensions over Hong Kong unrest flare on US college campuses

By MICHAEL MELIA - Associated Press

People walk photos showing the recent protests with words &quot;The days the Hong Kong people have passed&quot; at a pedestrian overhead bridge in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2019. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday, Sept. 24 she doesn't expect a town hall meeting this week to find answers to the months-long pro-democracy protests but hopes it will be a step forward in the &quot;long journey&quot; to reconciliation. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Chinese official says Hong Kong can handle its protests

Associated Press

Hong Kong activist Joshua Wong, hands out his business card following a news conference on human rights in Hong Kong on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Hong Kong democracy activists press U.S. for ban on sales to security forces

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

FILE - This Thursday, Sept. 22, 2011 file photo shows a sign outside the Stock Exchange in the City of London. The Hong Kong stock exchange said Wednesday Sept. 11, 2019, it has started talks to buy the London Stock Exchange that would value the British company at 29.6 billion pounds ($36.6 billion). The Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd. said a deal would provide the London Stock Exchange with a key opening to Asian markets and underpin the British capital’s role as a financial hub. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)

Hong Kong stock exchange swoops in for London rival

By CARLO PIOVANO - Associated Press

Chinese Communist Party guidelines dated June 12 "forbid any positive reports on the Hong Kong people's appeals for democracy and freedom." (Associated Press/File)

Ties to China shape cautious reaction to Hong Kong protests

By LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2019, in Washington. Trump has been on a tear about Google that traces back to unfounded conspiracy theories about the technology giant, unproven claims by former Google employees and a small research study that the president misconstrued. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Trump attacks on Google recycle baseless claims

By BY RACHEL LERMAN - Associated Press

Yang Guang, spokesman of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council, speaks during a press conference about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Monday, July 29, 2019. Yang said some Western politicians are stirring unrest in Hong Kong in hopes of creating difficulties that will impede China’s overall development. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China defends Hong Kong police, blames Western forces

By YANAN WANG and KATIE TAM - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The large portrait of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong on Tiananmen Gate next to Tiananmen Square is seen through the window of car in Beijing, Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Chinese authorities stepped up security Tuesday around Tiananmen Square in central Beijing, a reminder of the government's attempts to quash any memories of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests 30 years ago. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

The Latest: Hong Kong activists mark Tiananmen anniversary

Associated Press

Chinese Defense Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe speaks during the fourth plenary session of the 18th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-la Dialogue, an annual defense and security forum in Asia, in Singapore, Sunday, June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Yong Teck Lim)

China defends 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown as ‘correct policy’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Former GE engineer indicted in scheme to steal trade secrets on behalf of China

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Australian security adviser told writer not to fly to China

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 2, 2012, file photo, human rights activist Jiang Tianyong speaks to journalists outside a hospital after his failed attempt to see blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng who is believed to be seeking treatment in Beijing, China. The prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who defended politically-sensitive clients like blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng and followers of the outlawed Falun Gong spiritual group, has disappeared on the day he was scheduled to be released from prison after completing his two-year jail sentence Thursday, Feb. 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

Chinese rights lawyer disappears on prison release date

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Huawei Canada is helping connect more than 70 rural and remote communities in the next five years, including communities in the Arctic, northeastern Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador. (Associated Press/File)

China’s Huawei soft power push raises hard questions

By KELVIN CHAN and ROB GILLIES - Associated Press

Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou has been granted bail in Canada as the fight over extraditing her to the U.S. — or letting her go home — grinds on in courts. (Associated Press)

U.S. to seek extradition of Huawei executive: Report

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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. This is one of a growing number of internment camps in the Xinjiang region, where by some estimates 1 million Muslims are detained, forced to give up their language and their religion and subject to political indoctrination. Now, the Chinese government is also forcing some detainees to work in manufacturing, food and service industries, in what activists call &quot;black factories.&quot; (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

U.S. sportswear traced to factory in China’s internment camps

By Dake Kang, Martha Mendoza and Yanan Wang - Associated Press

Mihrigul Tursun, right, speaks at a event at the National Press Club in Washington, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018. Tursun, a member of China’s Uighur minority is detailing the torture and abuse she suffered at the hands Chinese authorities as part of an escalating clampdown on hundreds of thousands of members of the country's Muslim minorities. Through a translator she said she spent several months in detention in China where she was beaten, tortured with electric shock and given unknown drugs. (AP Photo/Maria Danilova)

Woman describes torture, beatings in Chinese detention camp

By MARIA DANILOVA - Associated Press