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Demonstrators shout slogans as they protest against the visit of U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin III who is in the country for talks about deploying U.S. forces and weapons in more Philippine military camps during a rally outside Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters in metro Manila, Philippines on Feb. 2, 2023. The U.S. has been rebuilding its military might in the Philippines after more than 30 years and reinforcing an arc of military alliances in Asia in a starkly different post-Cold War era when the perceived new regional threat is an increasingly belligerent China. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila, File)

U.S. forces returning to Philippines to counter China threats

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Illustration on war with China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Team Biden’s diplomacy will not prevent China from attacking Taiwan

By Jed Babbin

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, right, meets with retired Adm. Phil Davidson, former head of the U.S. Inso-Pacific Command, in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

Taiwan’s Tsai welcomes retired U.S. admiral for China talks

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping waves at an event to introduce new members of the Politburo Standing Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China held Taiwan war council in October, general’s memo reveals

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

You Si-Kun, left speaks with a translator to reporters following an address at the 2023 International Religious Freedom Summit in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Mark A. Kellner/The Washington Times)

Taiwan legislative leader says island has religious freedom, which China lacks

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg answers a question from students at Keio University in Tokyo, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

NATO chief wants more ‘friends’ as Russia, China move closer

By Mari Yamaguchi and Haruka Nuga - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, second from left, walks past military guards during his arrival at the Department of National Defense in Camp Aguinaldo military camp in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines on Thursday February 2, 2023. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)

U.S., Philippines agree to larger American military presence with access to four more bases

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

Taiwanese Mirage 2000 fighter jets taxi along a runway during a drill at an airbase in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023. Taiwan scrambled fighter jets, put its navy on alert and activated missile systems Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, in response to nearby operations of 34 Chinese military aircraft and nine warships that are part Beijing's strategy to unsettle and intimidate the self-governing island democracy. (AP Photo/Johnson Lai, File)

Taiwan activates defenses in response to China incursions

Associated Press

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during The United States Conference of Mayors, Jan. 18, 2023, in Washington. Blinken will travel to Egypt, Israel and the West Bank this weekend in his first trip to the Middle East this year. It comes amid an escalation in Israeli-Palestinian violence, U.S. concerns over the direction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government and ongoing issues with Egypt’s human rights record. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard, File)

Taiwan, North Korea and other tricky issues loom over Blinken’s China trip

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of Calif., pauses during a break in the taping of an interview for the Hannity show with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity, on Capitol Hill, Jan. 10, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

China tells House Speaker McCarthy not to visit Taiwan

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

New recruits practice thrusting with their bayonets at a military training center in Hsinchu County, northern Taiwan on April 22, 2013. Taiwan will extend its compulsory military service from four months to a year starting in 2024, President Tsai Ing-wen said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2022, as the self-ruled island faces China's military, diplomatic and trade pressure. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Rep. Michael McCaul: Risk of conflict with China over Taiwan is ‘very high’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

The F101B Voodoo is displayed at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Del., on Oct. 22, 2022. The Voodoo was a two-crew member fighter. The airplane is the fighter used by the squadron in which Gary Fields’ father, Willie &quot;Bill&quot; Mount Jr., served in the 1960s. The F101B Voodoos could carry two Douglas Genie air-to-air missiles which were designed to be used against incoming enemy bomber formations. Each missile was armed with a 1.5-kiloton atomic warhead. (AP Photo/Gary Fields)

Air Force general tells troops to prepare for war with China, predicts invasion of Taiwan in 2025

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, Oct. 10, 2022. Tsai recently told Pope Francis in a letter that war with China is “not an option” and said constructive interaction with Beijing, which claims the island as part of its territory, depends on respecting self-ruled Taiwan's democracy.(AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan’s president says war with China ‘not an option’

Associated Press

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., speaks during a news conference in Statuary Hall at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Speaker Kevin McCarthy eyes Taiwan visit this year in trip likely to anger China

By Guy Taylor and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, Chinese troops march during the Vostok 2022 military exercise at a firing range in Russia's Far East, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. Russia on Thursday launched weeklong war games involving forces from China and other nations in a show of growing defense cooperation between Moscow and Beijing, as they both face tensions with the United States. (Vadim Savitsky/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

China’s military threatens Taiwan takeover in music video

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen, right, poses for a photo with Johannes Vogel, vice chairman of Germany's Free Democratic Party, left, and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, leader of the German Parliament's Defense Committee, during a meeting in Taipei, Taiwan, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. China renewed its threats Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023, to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are “playing with fire.” (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP, File)

China renews threat against Taiwan as island holds drills

Associated Press

A Chinese J-11 military fighter jet flies above the Taiwan Strait near Pingtan, the closest land of mainland China to the island of Taiwan, in southeastern China's Fujian Province on Aug. 5, 2022. The U.S. military says a Chinese navy fighter jet flew dangerously close to an Air Force reconnaissance plane over the South China Sea earlier in December 2022, forcing the American pilot to maneuver to avoid a collision. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China again stages large-scale military exercises around Taiwan

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Residents wearing face masks walk by a large screen showing the Chinese People's Liberation Army Airforce outside a mall in Beijing, Monday, Jan. 9, 2023. The Chinese military held large-scale joint combat strike drills starting Sunday, sending war planes and navy vessels toward Taiwan, both the Chinese and Taiwanese defense ministries said. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S. defeats China in simulated war over Taiwan, but costs are high, says new study on risks

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In a July 18, 2012 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) and the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) are underway during a 2012 exercise. The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung Hoon made the passage from the South China Sea north through the 100-mile strait and into the East China Sea, said Navy Lt. Kristina Wiedemann, spokeswoman for the Seventh Fleet. (FILE, AP Photo/U.S. Navy, MC3 Ryan Mayes)

U.S. Navy warship sails through Taiwan Strait amid rising tensions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on cooperation with communist China by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

It’s time to hold China’s engagers accountable

By Jim Fanell