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A man rubs his forehead as he reads a newspaper headline reporting &quot;U.S. Taiwan staring anxiously on U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&quot; at a stand in Beijing, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. Pelosi arrived in Malaysia on Tuesday for the second leg of an Asian tour that has been overshadowed by an expected stop in Taiwan, which would escalate tensions with Beijing that claims the self-ruled island as its own territory. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Pelosi’s Taiwan visit captivates public in China and Taiwan

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Chinese policemen patrol the bund area, Wednesday, June 1, 2022, in Shanghai. Hackers claim to have obtained a trove of data on 1 billion Chinese from a Shanghai police database in a leak that, if confirmed, could be one of the largest data breaches in history. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

‘ChinaDan’ hacks Shanghai police files on 1 billion people

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this file photo, China's military personnel perform near a display showing the navy's aircraft carrier in a segment of a gala show ahead of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing on Monday, June 28, 2021. China’s military has carried out a test of a bomb designed to destroy U.S. Navy bases and civilian ports, setting off an underwater explosion in simulating an attack at a Chinese naval port on a “hostile high-piled wharf,” the state-run Global Times reported Oct. 25. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

China tests port-destroying bomb

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this undated file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, two Chinese SU-30 fighter jets take off from an unspecified location to fly a patrol over the South China Sea. China flew more than 30 military planes, including SU-30 fighter jets, toward Taiwan on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2021, the second large display of force in as many days.(Jin Danhua/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

China stages aerial ‘military parade’ with record sorties near Taiwan

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, people drive past fallen trees along a road in Nantong in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Several people were killed and more than 100 injured after an extreme thunderstorm in an eastern Chinese city, with strong winds causing buildings and trees to collapse. (Song Chenglin/Xinhua via AP)

Extreme weather kills 11, injures 66 in eastern China

Associated Press

FILE - In this file image made from March 28, 2018, video, Michael Kovrig, an adviser with the International Crisis Group, a Brussels-based non-governmental organization, speaks during an interview in Hong Kong. A Communist Party newspaper says China will soon begin trials for two Canadians, Kovrig and Michael Spavor, who were arrested in December 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada’s detention of a senior executive for Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies. (AP Photo, File)

Newspaper: China to soon try 2 Canadians on spying charges

Associated Press

2 scholars, said to be banned, had no China travel planned

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

In this July 30, 2020, file photo, Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, founder of the local newspaper Apple Daily, arrives a district court in Hong Kong. An aide to Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai says Lai was arrested Monday morning, Aug. 10, 2020, under the city’s national security law on suspicion of collusion with foreign powers. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested, newsroom searched

By Zen Soo - Associated Press

President Donald Trump pauses while speaking with reporters on the South Lawnof the White House in Washington, Sunday, May 17, 2020. Trump is returning from a visit to nearby Camp David, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Donald Trump increases China confrontations, blocks Huawei trade

By Dave Boyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump signs a trade agreement with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Donald Trump signs landmark trade deal with China to fix ‘wrongs of the past’

By Dave Boyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Shohrat Zakir, chairman of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, left, speaks next to his vice chairman Alken Tuniaz during a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, Tuesday, July 30, 2019. In August 2019, Beijing announced the formation of a new "Mountain Eagle Commando" unit, China's third counterterrorism commando unit, and the first to be established since the Guangzhou-based Snow Leopard Unit 17 years ago. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) **FILE**

China’s military forms new ‘counterterror’ unit in restive Uighur region

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Deputy U.S. trade representative, Jeffrey D. Gerrish who is leading a U.S. trade delegation leaves from a hotel for a second day of meetings with Chinese officials in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. Facing a March deadline, talks aimed at ending a trade war between China and the U.S. are underway, with the world's two biggest economies expressing optimism over the potential for progress but neither indicating its stance has changed. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

No word on progress after 2nd day of China-US trade talks

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Miraflores Presidential Palace, President Nicolas Maduro stands at attention during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 4, 2019. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an attempted attack on President Maduro. Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said in a live broadcast that several drone-like devices with explosives detonated near the president. He said Maduro is safe and unharmed but that seven people were injured. (Miraflores Presidential Palace via AP)

China hosts Venezuelan leader, but denies playing in ‘U.S. backyard’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

China newspaper defends Xinjiang Muslim crackdown

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 18, 2015 file photo, students follow a Tibetan-language lesson at the Lhasa-Beijing Experimental Middle School on the outskirts of Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in China. An official Chinese Communist Party newspaper says Tibetan children have been banned from taking part in religious activities over the summer 2018 school holidays. (AP Photo/Aritz Parra, File)

China: Tibetan students banned from religious activities

Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping waits for his documents during a signing ceremony with Bolivia's President Evo Morales, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Tuesday, June 19, 2018. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

China paper denounces U.S. Navy ships’ Taiwan Strait passage

Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping applauds during the opening session of the annual National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, Monday, March 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China state media says Trump-Kim meeting vindicates Beijing diplomacy

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A Vietnamese passenger boat sails past U.S aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson as it docks in Danang bay, Vietnam on Monday, March 5, 2018. For the first time since the Vietnam War, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is paying a visit to a Vietnamese port, seeking to bolster both countries' efforts to stem expansionism by China in the South China Sea. (AP Photo/ Hau Dinh)

Paper notes China’s ‘unhappiness’ over US Navy Vietnam visit

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press

In this July 7, 2017, file photo, the Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier, sails into Hong Kong for a port call. Chinese media reports say the country is planning to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier capable of remaining at sea for long durations, in what would mark a major upgrade for its increasingly formidable navy. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

China plans to build nuclear aircraft carrier: Reports

Associated Press

In this June 6, 2015, photo, heavy machines move imported iron ore at the dock in Rizhao in eastern China's Shandong province. (Chinatopix via AP) **FILE**

Shivering Chinese cities allowed to turn back to coal

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times