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People gather for the Communist Party rally protesting retirement age hikes in St.Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Sept. 2, 2018. Several thousand people gathered in central Moscow and St.Petersburg on Sunday for a protest organized by the Communist Party and other demonstrations were reported in Vladivostok in the Far East and Barnaul and Novosibirsk in Siberia. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

Vladimir Putin Russia fall aids communists, Liberal Democrats

By Marc Bennetts — Special to The Washington Times

In this March 12, 2017, file photo, Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, speaks on the sideline of the National People's Congress in Beijing, China. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China says internment camps are ‘free vocational training’

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 4, 2017 file photo, Uighur security personnel patrol near the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang region. China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has revised legislation to allow the detention of suspected extremists in &quot;education and training centers.&quot; The revisions come amid rising international concern over a harsh crackdown in Xinjiang that has led to as many as 1 million of China's Uighurs and other Muslim minorities being held in internment camps. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

US lawmakers call on Trump to help detained Chinese Muslims

By DAKE KANG and YANAN WANG - Associated Press

In this July 4, 2017, file photo, Interpol President, Meng Hongwei, delivers his opening address at the Interpol World congress in Singapore. A French judicial official says Friday Oct.5, 2018 the president of Interpol has been reported missing after traveling to China. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

China accuses ex-Interpol chief of bribery, other crimes

By Gillian Wong - Associated Press

Grace Meng, the wife of missing Interpol President Meng Hongwei, who does not want her face shown, consults her mobile phone in the lobby of a hotel in Lyon, central France, where the police agency is based, on Sunday Oct. 7, 2018. Interpol said Saturday it has made a formal request to China for information about the agency's missing president, a senior Chinese security official who seemingly vanished while on a trip home. (AP Photo/John Leicester)

Wife says Interpol officer sent knife image as danger signal

By JOHN LEICESTER and GILLIAN WONG - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2018, file photo, Vietnam's Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong poses as he meets with U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis before their talks in Hanoi, Vietnam. The ruling Communist Party of Vietnam has decided to nominate its general secretary as sole candidate for the presidency, a position left vacant following the death of President Tran Dai Quang. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh, File)

Vietnam nominates Communist Party chief to become president

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In this Sept. 22, 2018 photo, members of the faithful attend a mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, a government-sanctioned Catholic church in Beijing. The Vatican’s breakthrough agreement to give China some say over bishop appointments has critics accusing the church of caving in to the ruling Communist Party just as it is waging a sweeping crackdown on religion. Others say it’s an imperfect but much-needed step toward uniting Catholics in the world’s most populous country. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Vatican agreement with China draws concerns amid crackdown

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo, Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang meets with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the Presidential Palace during the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam. Official media say Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61 due to illness on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Vietnam to hold state funeral for President Tran Dai Quang

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FILE - In this Sept. 13, 2018, file photo, Vietnam's President Tran Dai Quang meets with Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the Presidential Palace during the World Economic Forum on ASEAN in Hanoi, Vietnam. Official media say Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61 due to illness on Friday, Sept. 21, 2018. (Kham/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang dies of illness at 61

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Official seal notices are sticked on a backdoor entrance of the Zion church after it was shutdown by authoritiwa in Beijing, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2018. China is rolling out new rules on religious activity on the internet amid an ongoing crackdown on churches, mosques and other institutions by the officially atheist Communist Party. Anyone wishing to provide religious instruction or similar services online must apply by name and be judged morally fit and politically reliable, according to draft regulations posted online late Monday by the State Administration for Religious Affairs. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China to regulate online religious activity amid crackdown

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In this Tuesday, March 27, 2018, photo, Catholic religious paintings and Bibles are displayed behind bars at an underground Catholic church in Jiexi county in south China's Guangdong province. A group that monitors Christianity in China says the government is ratcheting up a crackdown on congregations in Beijing and several Chinese provinces, destroying crosses, burning Bibles and ordering followers to sign papers renouncing their faith. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Group: Officials destroying crosses, burning bibles in China

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

Vehicles are parked outside the Grand Mosque in Weizhou in northwestern China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, early Saturday, Aug. 11, 2018. Thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque in northwestern China on Friday to protest its planned demolition in a rare, public pushback to the government's efforts to rewrite how religions are practiced in the country. (AP Photo/Sam McNeil)

Religion must obey Chinese law, paper says of mosque protest

By SAM McNEIL and YANAN WANG - Associated Press

In this photo taken Monday, June 4, 2018, a painting of the Last Supper is seen next to posters quoting China's constitution on religious freedom in a house church shut down by authorities near the city of Nanyang in central China's Henan province. Under President Xi Jinping, China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival. Experts and activists say that as he consolidates his power, Xi is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious freedom was written into the Chinese constitution in 1982. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

Chinese calligraphy which reads "All nations belong to the Lord arising to shine" at left and "Jesus's salvation spreads to the whole world" at right are displayed below a crucifix in a house church shut down by authorities near the city of Nanyang in central China's Henan province. (Associated Press)

China moves to ‘Sinicize’ Christianity with ‘Chinese characteristics’ amid crackdown on religion

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018. pastor Jin Minri speaks during an interview at the Zion Church in Beijing, China. After Jin refused local authorities' request to install surveillance cameras inside his house church, police individually questioned hundreds of members of the 1,500-person congregation, he said. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Christian heartland opens window into fight for China’s soul

By YANAN WANG - Associated Press

China promoting flying of state flags at religious events

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In this photo released by Cuba's state-run media Cubadebate, Cuba's President Raul Castro, center left, enters the National Assembly followed by his successor Miguel Diaz-Canel, center right, for the start of two-day legislative session in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, April 18, 2018. The Cuban assembly selected the 57-year-old First Vice President as the sole candidate to succeed Castro on Wednesday, in a transition aimed at ensuring that the country's single-party system outlasts the aging revolutionaries who created it. (Irene Perez/Cubadebate via AP)

The Latest: Pence tweets response to Cuba’s Raul Castro

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FILE - In this July 6, 2013 file photo, Cuba's President Raul Castro, left, and Vice President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez attend the opening of a two-day, twice-annual legislative sessions, at the National Assembly in Havana, Cuba. Diaz-Canel, 57, is widely expected to take Castro’s place as Cuba’s next president on April 19. (AP Photo/Ismael Francisco, Cubadebate, File)

Younger party official faces test as Cuba’s next president

By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a plenary session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing Friday, March 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

Xi Jinping’s rule shatters hopes for China’s liberalization

By Yanan Wang - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, Chinese President Xi Jinping reviews a Chinese honor guard during a welcome ceremony for a visiting dignitary at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In a rare public expression of dissent in China, a well-known political commentator and a prominent businesswoman penned open letters urging lawmakers to reject a plan that would allow President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Xi Jinping term limit proposal sparks rare public dissent in China

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