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A member of a military band rehearse before a session of China's National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sunday, March 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S. needs to be ready to meet challenge presented by ‘new Cold War’ with China

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen delivers a speech during National Day celebrations in front of the Presidential Building in Taipei, Taiwan, on Oct. 10, 2022. China has threatened “resolute countermeasures” over a planned meeting between Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen and Speaker of the United States House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming visit in Los Angeles by the head of the self-governing island democracy. On April 5, 2023, Tsai’s expected to stop in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

Taiwan leader’s U.S. meeting plans draw Chinese threat

Associated Press

Taowen Le, a Weber State University professor of information systems and technologies, speaks during an interview at Weber State University on Oct. 11, 2022, in Ogden, Utah. An investigation by the Associated Press has found that China and its U.S.-based advocates spent years building relationships with the Utah's officials and lawmakers. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Amid strained U.S. ties, China finds unlikely friend in Utah

By Alan Suderman and Sam Metz - Associated Press

Honduras Foreign Minister Eduardo Enrique Reina Garcia, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang raise a toast following the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries, at a ceremony in the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Sunday, March 26, 2023. Honduras formed diplomatic ties with China on Sunday after breaking off relations with Taiwan, which is increasingly isolated and now recognized by only 13 sovereign states, including Vatican City. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP)

Honduras establishes ties with China after Taiwan break

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testifies during a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, on the platform's consumer privacy and data security practices and impact on children, Thursday, March 23, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Why does U.S. see Chinese-owned TikTok as a security threat?

By Joe McDonald and Zen Soo - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, center left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, walk after their dinner at The Palace of the Facets in the Moscow Kremlin, Russia, Tuesday, March 21, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

China calls Xi’s Russia visit one of friendship, peace

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In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks by phone with the Czech Republic's President elect Petr Pavel in Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 30, 2023. The Biden administration has been stressing to Beijing that an expected unofficial visit to the United States by Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen should not be used as pretext by Beijing to step up aggressive activity in the Taiwan Strait. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

U.S. tells China a Taiwan president stopover is ‘nothing new’

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

A worker in protective gear collects a sample from a resident at a coronavirus testing site in Beijing, Nov. 29, 2022. China's sudden reopening after two years holding to a "zero-COVID" strategy left older people vulnerable and hospitals and pharmacies unprepared during the season when the virus spreads most easily, leading to many avoidable deaths, The Associated Press has found. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives

By Dake Kang - Associated Press

Then Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou, left, and China's President Xi Jinping shake hands at the Shangri-la Hotel on Nov. 7, 2015, in Singapore. Former Taiwan President Ma will visit China next week, in what a spokesman called an independent bid to ease tensions between the self-ruled island and the mainland. Ma, who's a member of the opposition Nationalist Party (Kuomingtang), will lead a delegation of academics and students as well as his former presidential staffers from March 27 to April 7, his office said Sunday. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying)

Former Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou will visit China

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping gestures while speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 20, 2023. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin welcomes China’s Xi to Kremlin amid Ukraine fighting

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin pose for a photo during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, March 20, 2023. (Sergei Karpukhin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin, Xi send chilly words to Western world; Chinese leader offers lifeline as Ukraine war churns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta speaks during the post-Cabinet press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, Monday, March 7, 2022. Foreign Minister Mahuta will visit her counterpart Qin Gang in Beijing this week in the first trip by a New Zealand minister to China in four years, officials said Monday, March 20, 2023. (Mark Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP, File)

New Zealand’s foreign minister to visit counterpart in China

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin enter a hall for talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, June 5, 2019. The Chinese government said Xi would visit Moscow from March 20 to March 22, 2023, but gave no indication when he departed. The Russian government said Xi was due to arrive at midday and meet later with Putin. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool, File)

China’s Xi meeting Putin in boost for isolated Russia leader

By Emily Wang Fujiyama and Joe McDonald - Associated Press

Illustration on China's help in a new Saudi/Iran agreement by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

China’s Saudi-Iran gambit

By Jed Babbin

This combination photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Sept. 16, 2022, and China's President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Dec. 2, 2019. China says Xi will visit Russia from Monday, March 10, 2023, to Wednesday in an apparent show of support for Putin. (Sergei Bobylev, Noel Celis/Pool Photos via AP, File)

China’s Xi to visit Putin amid Beijing’s bolder global role

By Karl Ritter - Associated Press

In this photo released by Nournews, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Shamkhani, right, China's most senior diplomat Wang Yi, center, and Saudi Arabia's National Security Adviser Musaad bin Mohammed al-Aiban looks on during an agreement signing ceremony between Iran and Saudi Arabia to reestablish diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after seven years of tensions between the Mideast rivals, in Beijing, China, March 10, 2023. In a matter of days, Saudi Arabia carried out blockbuster agreements with the world's two leading powers, signing a Chinese-facilitated deal aimed at restoring diplomatic ties with its arch-nemesis Iran and announcing a massive contract to buy commercial planes from U.S. manufacturer Boeing. (Nournews via AP)

With Saudi deals, U.S., China battle for influence in Mideast

By Aamer Madhani, Matthew Lee and Ellen Knickmeyer - Associated Press

The icon for the video-sharing TikTok app is seen on a smartphone, on Feb. 28, 2023. China accused the United States on Thursday, March 16, of spreading disinformation and suppressing TikTok following reports that the Biden administration was calling for its Chinese owners to sell their stakes in the popular video-sharing app. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

China says U.S. spreading disinformation, suppressing TikTok

In this file photo provided by the Iranian Army, warships sail in the Sea of Oman during the second day of joint Iran, Russia and China naval war games on Dec. 28 2019. Naval forces from China, Iran and Russia — all countries at varying degrees of odds with the United States — are staging joint drills in the Gulf of Oman this week, China’s Defense Ministry has announced. Other countries are also taking part in the “Security Bond-2023” exercises, the ministry said Tuesday, March 14, 2023, without giving details.(Iranian Army via AP, File)

China, Russia, Iran hold joint naval drills in Gulf of Oman

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U.S. Army's Apache helicopters park at a training field in Yeoncheon, near the border with North Korea, Monday, March 13, 2023. The South Korean and U.S. militaries launched their biggest joint military exercises in years on Monday, as North Korea said it tested submarine-launched cruise missiles in an apparent protest of the drills it views as an invasion rehearsal. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Hostility against U.S.-South Korean drills shows fears of isolated North

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, visiting Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Feb. 14, 2023. (Yan Yan/Xinhua via AP, File)

Iran-Saudi Arabia deal casts China in unfamiliar global role

Associated Press