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TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on the platform's consumer privacy and data security practices and impact on children, Thursday, March 23, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Why does U.S. see Chinese-owned TikTok as a security threat?

By Joe McDonald and Zen Soo - 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

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during a session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Friday, March 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China’s Xi Jinping extends rule with unprecedented third term as president

Associated Press

Residents wearing masks line up during a cold day outside a pharmacy to purchase medicine in preparation for a possible wave of COVID-19 outbreaks in Beijing, Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022. Some Chinese universities say they will allow students to finish the semester from home in hopes of reducing the potential of a bigger COVID-19 outbreak during the January Lunar New Year travel rush. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China won’t report asymptomatic COVID cases in further shift

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

New members of the Politburo Standing Committee, front to back, President Xi Jinping, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, and Li Xi arrive at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Oct. 23, 2022. The world faces the prospect of more tension with China over trade, security and human rights after Xi Jinping awarded himself a third five-year term on Oct. 23, 2022, as leader of the ruling Communist Party. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

World faces tension with China under Xi Jinping’s third term

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Residents and neighborhood watch members stand near a Chinese flag along a street ahead of the closing ceremony of the 20th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party in Beijing, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China reaffirms Xi Jinping’s dominance, removes No. 2 Li Keqiang

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping adjusts his jacket as he attends a dinner reception at the Great Hall of the People on the eve of the National Day holiday in Beijing, Friday, Sept. 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Chairman Xi? Party congress set to hand Chinese leader unprecedented power

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, left, and Taiwanese President President Tsai Ing-wen wave during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. The U.S. government has announced talks with Taiwan, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, on a trade treaty in a new sign of support for the self-ruled island democracy claimed by China’s ruling Communist Party as part of its territory. The announcement comes after Beijing launched military drills in an attempt to intimidate the island after Pelosi's visit. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP, File)

U.S. to hold trade talks with Taiwan in new show of support

Associated Press

Customers buy fruit at a stall in Taipei, Taiwan, on Sept. 20, 2021. China has blocked imports of citrus and fish from Taiwan in retaliation for a visit to the self-ruled island by a top American lawmaker but avoided sanctions on Taiwanese processor chips for Chinese assemblers of smartphones and other electronics, a step that would send shockwaves through the global economy. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

China blocks some Taiwan imports but avoids chip disruption

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, visits the community of Guyuanxiang in the Tianshan District in Urumqi in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Wednesday, July 13, 2022. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi, in Xinjiang, signals no change to Uyghur policy

Associated Press

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum, left, and FBI Director Christopher Wray attend a joint press conference at MI5 headquarters, in central London, Wednesday July 6, 2022. The head of the FBI and the leader of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency raised alarms Wednesday about the Chinese government, warning business leaders that Beijing is determined to steal their technology for competitive gain. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP)

China steps up influence operations of state, local officials, U.S. agency’s report says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin looks toward each other during their meeting in Beijing, China, on Feb. 4, 2022. China has described reports and images of civilian killings in Ukraine as disturbing, and urged that they be further investigated, even while declining to blame Russia. That's drawn questions about the resiliency of Beijing's support for Moscow, but speculation that it is weakening appears to be misplaced. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

State Department targets China’s pro-Moscow disinformation on Ukraine war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping is displayed on a screen as Type 99A2 Chinese battle tanks take part in a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II, held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. From the military suppression of Beijing’s 1989 pro-democracy protests to the less deadly crushing of Hong Kong’s opposition four decades later, China’s long-ruling Communist Party has demonstrated a determination and ability to stay in power that is seemingly impervious to Western criticism and sanctions. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

From Tiananmen to Hong Kong, China’s crackdowns defy critics

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Student activists, some wearing masks with the colors of the pro-independence East Turkistan flag, shout slogans during a rally to protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia on Jan. 14, 2022. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics open in just over a week. When Beijing held the Summer Olympics in 2008 the International Olympic Committee predicted they could improve human rights, and Chinese politicians hinted at the same. There are no soaring promises this time. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)

China less worried about global criticism these Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Intel Corp. apologizes for asking suppliers to avoid Xinjiang

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Chinese diplomats have Twitter links to porn sites banned at home

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Xu Lin, vice minister of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of China's Communist Party holds a copy of a government-produced report titled &quot;Democracy that Works&quot; during a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. China's Communist Party took American democracy to task on Saturday, sharply criticizing a global democracy summit being hosted by President Joe Biden next week and extolling the virtues of its governing system. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

China’s communists bash U.S. democracy before Biden summit

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Grace Meng, the wife of former Interpol president Meng Hongwei, poses for a photo after an interview with the Associated Press in Lyon, central France, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. In the exclusive interview, Meng chose to show her face for the first time since her husband disappeared in China in 2018, agreeing to be filmed and photographed without the dark lighting and from-the-back camera angles that she had previously insisted on. She did so to be able to speak openly and in unprecedented detail about her husband's imprisonment, herself and the cataclysm that tore them apart. (AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani)

Former Interpol President Meng Hongwei’s wife slams ‘monster’ China

By John Leicester - Associated Press

China's Shuai Peng plays a shot against Romania's Sorana Cirstea during their first round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, France. Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Chinese authorities have squelched virtually all online discussion of sexual assault accusations apparently made by the Chinese professional tennis star against a former top government official, showing how sensitive the ruling Communist Party is to such charges. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Tennis star accuses China ex-vice premier of sexual assault

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

In this file photo, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the media prior to a meeting at the U.S. State Department on Nov. 24, 2020. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP) (Associated Press)

Pompeo accuses China of ‘deep’ subversion of the United States

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times