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Huawei made its presence at a wireless trade show in Las Vegas this year. Some in Congress fear the Chinese telecommunications giant, said to have ties to China's military, poses a risk to national security with its deal to supply components to a supercomputer lab that is a defense contractor. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: Chinese company tried to hack NSA using U.S. defense contractor

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, crew members on board an aircraft P-8A Poseidon assist in search and rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, March 16, 2014. Malaysian authorities on Sunday examined a flight simulator that was confiscated from the home of one of the missing jetliner's pilots. The Boeing 777 went missing less than an hour into a March 8, flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing as it entered Vietnamese airspace. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Eric A. Pastor)

U.S., China talk cybersecurity despite military hack attack

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2012, file photo, passengers queue up for a security check at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China. The Transportation Security Administration is requiring passengers at some overseas airports that offer U.S.-bound flights to power on their electronic devices, the agency said Sunday, July 6, 2014. It says devices that won’t power up won’t be allowed on planes, and those travelers may have to undergo additional screening. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)

Inside China: Massive flight woes and a missile test

By Miles Yu

In this April 23, 2009 photo, Chinese Navy helicopters and 528 warship attend an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy in the water off Qingdao of Shandong Province, China. China’s boosted defense spending this year grew 12.2 percent to $132 billion, continuing more than two decades of nearly unbroken double-digit percentage increases that have afforded Beijing the means to potentially alter the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific. Outside observers put China’s actual defense spending significantly higher, although estimates vary widely. (AP Photo/Guang Niu, Pool)

Chinese military growing in size and reach, Pentagon report shows

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Half of the 16 names on the FBI's counterintelligence most wanted list are Chinese people charged with theft of intellectual property or trade secrets for Beijing's benefit. (Associated Press/File)

Little public action in Chinese cyberspying case

By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

Press materials are displayed on a table of the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, before Attorney General Eric Holder was to speak at a news conference. Holder was announcing that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Guide to US allegations of China cyberspying

By EILEEN SULLIVAN - Associated Press

Attorney General Eric Holder, accompanied by, from left, U.S. Attorney for Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin, and FBI Executive Associate Director Robert Anderson, speaks at a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014. Holder was announcing that a U.S. grand jury has charged five Chinese hackers with economic espionage and trade secret theft, the first-of-its-kind criminal charges against Chinese military officials in an international cyber-espionage case. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

US charges Chinese officials in cyberspying case

By ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

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Inside China: Marine’s comment on islands draws sharp Chinese response

By Miles Yu

U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and China's President Xi Jinping, right, shake hands before their bilateral meeting at the G-20 Summit, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 in St. Petersburg, Russia. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Inside the Ring: China driving U.S. out of Asia

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

China magazine: PLA official probed for corruption

Associated Press

In 2001, a Chinese J-8 fighter crashed into a U.S. EP-3 (above) surveillance aircraft flying some 70 miles off the Chinese coast, setting off a crisis for new President George W. Bush. (U.S. Navy)

Inside the Ring: China targeting U.S. spy flights amid escalating tensions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A B-52 bomber flies over the Pacific Ocean. (Image: U.S. Air Force) ** FILE **

U.S. B-52 bombers buzz China’s expanded airspace as dispute with Japan escalates

The Washington Times

Inside the Ring: Army officer calls for purge

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

A U.N. committee in charge of monitoring arms sanctions on North Korea concludes that China provided off-road vehicles — "lumber transporters" — that were converted into long-range missile launchers by the North Korean military.

Inside the Ring: China breaks sanctions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

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Inside China: China resolutely unhappy with report

By Miles Yu - The Washington Times

A Chinese health worker takes excrement samples from a chicken at a closed poultry market in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Health officials believe humans are contracting the H7N9 bird flu virus through direct contact with infected fowl and say there's no evidence the virus is spreading easily between people. (AP Photo)

American flu: Chinese colonel says bird flu is really U.S. biological weapon

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

China’s new UCAV, a small bird-like drone shown during a recent military show at Zhuhai (Source: Chinese Internet via the Washington Free Beacon)

Red dawn: Communist China stepping up drone deployment

By Bill Gertz - Washington Free Beacon

Inside China: Taiwan president attends papal inauguration

By Miles Yu

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, U.S. President Barack Obama, right, meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao at the APEC Summit in Honolulu. In the simplistic narrative of U.S. presidential politics, China is a Hollywood villain, a monetary cheat that is stealing American jobs. But in the debate Tuesday night, Oct. 16, 2012 the one-dimensional caricature offered up by Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney obscures the crucial reality of U.S.-China relations: For all the talk about getting tough on Beijing, the U.S. and China are deeply entwined, defying easy solutions to the friction and troubles that beset their relations. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Obama rejected tough options for countering Chinese cyber attacks two years ago

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

Chinese hackers seen as increasingly professional

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN - Associated Press