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Musk’s China ties add potential risks to Twitter purchase

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

A resident past by a mobile test station during mass COVID-19 testing on Monday, May 16, 2022, in Shanghai. Most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown, authorities said Monday, as the city moves toward reopening and economic data showed the gloomy impact of China's “zero-COVID" policy. (AP Photo/Chen Si)

Most of Shanghai has ended coronavirus spread; 1M left in lockdown

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Workers in protective overalls conduct mass COVID testing for residents on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China labels WHO remarks on ‘zero-COVID’ ‘irresponsible’

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A woman talks on her phone near a screen depicting a giant hand at an empty mall area with closed retail shops and restaurants only offering takeaway on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Beijing. China's capital began another round of three days of mass testing for millions of its residents Tuesday in a bid to prevent an outbreak from growing to Shanghai proportions. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Shanghai re-tightens on COVID, frustrating trapped residents

By Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

A man wearing a mask squats in front of an empty mall area on Monday, May 2, 2022, in Beijing. Many Chinese marked a quiet May Day this year as the government's &quot;zero-COVID&quot; approach restricts travel and enforces lockdowns in multiple cities. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Shanghai COVID outbreak shows signs of waning as cases fall

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A security guard wearing a face mask stands watch as masked residents using their smartphone to scan their health code at a barricaded entrance to a commercial office complex, Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Beijing. Beijing is on alert after 10 middle school students tested positive for COVID-19, in what city officials said was an initial round of testing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Shanghai erects metal barriers in fight against COVID-19

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

A woman wearing a face mask walks past a mural in Beijing, Friday, April 22, 2022. Officials in Shanghai promised Friday to ease anti-virus controls on truck drivers that are hampering food supplies and trade as they try to revive the local economy while millions of people are still confined to their homes. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Shanghai easing virus rules, Hong Kong ending entry ban

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Illustration on Xi Jinping's enemies in China by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

In China, Xi Jinping’s enemies sharpen their knives

By Brandon J. Weichert

People who have been negative in the last two nucleic acid tests line up to leave a temporary hospital converted from the National Exhibition and Convention Center to quarantine COVID-positive people in Shanghai, China on April 18, 2022. Interviews with family members of people testing positive for COVID-19, a phone call with a government health official and an independent tally raise questions about how Shanghai calculates virus cases and deaths, almost certainly resulting in a marked undercount. (Chinatopix via AP)

Surprisingly low Shanghai COVID death count spurs questions

By Huizhong Wu and Dake Kang - Associated Press

Residents line up to get their throat swab at a coronavirus testing site, Tuesday, April 5, 2022, in Beijing. China has sent more than 10,000 health workers from across the country to Shanghai, including 2,000 military medical staff, as it struggles to stamp out a rapidly spreading COVID-19 outbreak in China's largest city. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

COVID outbreak ‘extremely grim’ as Shanghai extends lockdown

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a medical worker from Zhejiang Province takes a swab sample from a resident for nucleic acid test at a COVID-19 testing site in Pudong District of east China's Shanghai, Monday, March 28, 2022. Chinese authorities sought to reassure companies and jittery investors on Tuesday as a two-phase lockdown of Shanghai's 26 million people entered its second day, casting an unusual quiet over the normally bustling center of finance, manufacturing and trade. (He Zhongming/Xinhua via AP)

China tries to limit economic blow of Shanghai shutdown

By Joe McDonald - Associated Press

A health worker wearing a protective suit holds checklists as they walk out from a barricaded community that was locked down for health monitoring following the COVID-19 case detected in the area, Monday, March 28, 2022, in Beijing. China began its largest lockdown in two years Monday to conduct mass testing and control a growing outbreak in its largest city of Shanghai as questions are raised about the economic toll of the nation's &quot;zero-COVID&quot; strategy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Shanghai starts China’s biggest COVID-19 lockdown in 2 years

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Workers line up for COVID test outside an office building on Monday, March 14, 2022, in Beijing. Chinese authorities reported more than 1,300 locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 across dozens of mainland cities Monday as the fast-spreading variant commonly known as &quot;stealth omicron&quot; fuels China's biggest outbreak in two years. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China battles multiple outbreaks, driven by stealth omicron

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping is seen on a billboard with the slogan, &quot;Administer Xinjiang according to law, unite and stabilize the territory, culturally moisturize the territory, enrich the people and rejuvenate the territory, and build the territory for a long term,&quot; in Yarkent County in northwestern China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on March 21, 2021. Four years after Beijing's brutal crackdown on largely Muslim minorities native to Xinjiang, Chinese authorities are dialing back the region's high-tech police state and stepping up tourism. But even as a sense of normality returns, fear remains, hidden but pervasive. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

Desert-circling rail line latest link in China’s push for influence, control

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

A man wearing a mask passes by a sign ahead of the Auto Shanghai 2021 show in Shanghai on Sunday, April 18, 2021. Automakers from around the world are showcasing their latest products this week in the world's biggest market for auto vehicles. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

New SUV models star at China auto show under virus controls

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A medical worker stands near billboards portraying renowned Chinese Dr. Zhong Nanshan with the words &quot;Vaccine China Made&quot; at a vaccination site in Beijing on Friday, April 9, 2021. China's success at controlling the coronavirus outbreak has resulted in a population that has seemed almost reluctant to get vaccinated. Now, it is accelerating its inoculation campaign by offering incentives — free eggs, store coupons and discounts on groceries and merchandise — to those getting a shot. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China ramps up vaccination drive with free eggs, other goods

By HUIZHONG WU - Associated Press

A currency trader walks near the screens showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), left, and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, April 2, 2021. Asian shares were higher Friday after a broad rally pushed the S&amp;P 500 past 4,000 points for the first time. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Global stocks rise; Treasury yields rally after jobs report

By STAN CHOE - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2020, photo released by Harvey Smith, he poses for a photo as he makes his round on the U.S.-owned Horizon Spirit getting overhauled at the dock in Nantong, eastern China's Jiangsu Province. The crew of the Horizon Spirit plan to spend Christmas looking after their 800-foot (240-meter) long container ship in a southern Chinese shipyard while they are barred, like thousands of sailors worldwide, from going ashore due to coronavirus restrictions. (Harvey Smith via AP)

Anti-virus controls strand merchant sailors aboard ships

By JOE McDONALD - Associated Press

Zhong Hanneng talks about how her son, Peng Yi, had trouble getting tested for COVID-19 and eventually died from the disease, in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. Widespread test shortages and problems at a time when the coronavirus arguably could have been curbed were caused largely by secrecy and cronyism at China’s top disease control agency, an Associated Press investigation has found. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China testing blunders stemmed from secret deals with firms

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

China testing blunders stemmed from secret deals with firms

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