Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian China has urged the United States to abandon its Cold War and zero-sum game mentality, after the US House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at increasing American competitiveness with China and boosting US semiconductor manufacturing...

File photo of China’s Ambassador to Washington, Qin Gang China’s top envoy to the US has warned of a likely military conflict over persistent American efforts to urge officials of Taipei to seek independence from the mainland...

The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold in the Philippine Sea in June 2018 (photo by Reuters) China’s military says it has warned away a US warship that had illegally entered Chinese waters near the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, amid heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington over the strategic waterway...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends a meeting of the politburo of the ruling Workers’ Party in Pyongyang, North Korea, on January 19, 2022, in this photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on January 20, 2022...

File photo shows test-firing of a new type submarine-launched ballistic missile in an undisclosed location in North Korea...

File photo shows members of the Pakistan-based Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)...

File photo of Kazakh security officers speaking to a gathering of people in wake of violent protests over sharp rise in fuel prices...

A news broadcast shows file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, on January 5, 2021...

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has blamed the United States for the collapse of his government earlier this year, saying Washington sidelined him during the so-called peace talks with the Taliban...

Chinese and Taiwanese flags are displayed alongside military airplanes in this illustration taken on April 9, 2021...

The file photo shows a model of the Chinese space station Tiangong orbiting Earth...

File photo shows an Indian nuclear-capable ballistic missile...

Hundreds of prisoners set fire to a Thai jail during a two-day riot over the handling of a coronavirus cluster, with some inmates wounded as officers sought to restore order...

The flags of Chinese Taipei and the US are placed for a meeting in Taipei, on March 27, 2018...

A man cycles past a Taiwan flag in Taipei, Chinese Taipei, on November 16, 2021...

Russia and China conclude massive military drills in northwest China...

The fire was visible from the coast of Azerbaijan...

In this handout file photo, taken on May 24, 2021 and released by Myanmar’s Ministry of Information on May 26, ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and ousted president Win Myint (R) are seen during their first court appearance in Naypyidaw...

Protesters in school graduation gear take part in a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon...

Farmers take part in a tractor rally in protest against new farm laws, at Ghaziabad, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, on January 7, 2021...

Hong Kong Police Force Senior Superintendent Steve Li Kwai-Wah (C) speaks during a press briefing outside the Hong Kong Police Headquarters building in Hong Kong on January 6, 2021, following the arrest of dozens of people under the National Security Law...

The file photo shows Indian soldiers patrolling on the Jammu-Srinagar national highway after a gun battle with alleged attackers at an Indian army base at Nagrota, some 15 kilometers from Jammu, in the Indian-administered Kashmir...

Police vehicles exit Yantian District People’s Court, where 12 Hong Kongers who were arrested last August as they tried to flee Hong Kong to Taiwan by boat are on trial, in China’s southeastern city of Shenzhen, across the border from Hong Kong, on December 28, 2020...

People line up to be tested for COVID-19 at a seafood market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand, on December 19, 2020, after some new cases of local infections were detected and linked to a vendor at the market...

A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel checks a car carrying United Nations (UN) Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan officials as they cross to Pakistan at the India-Pakistan Attari-Wagah border post on November 4, 2020...

Philippine Coast Guard conduct a rescue operation, after Typhoon Vamco resulted in severe flooding, in the Cagayan Valley region in northeastern Philippines, November 13, 2020...

Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein (R) greets China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi (L) before their meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 13, 2020...

Opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim speaks beside his wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on October 13, 2020...

Yoshihide Suga speaks during a news conference following his confirmation as prime minister of Japan, in Tokyo, Japan, on September 16, 2020...

Newly-elected leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Yoshihide Suga (3rd-L) is applauded after being elected as Japan’s prime minister by the lower house of parliament, in Tokyo, Japan, on September 16, 2020...

Mohamed Hagi (R), Somaliland’s Taiwan representative, bumps elbows with Taiwan’s foreign minister Joseph Wu during the opening ceremony of a representative office in Taiwan, on September 9, 2020...

This file photo shows an Australian flag fluttering in front of the Great Hall of the People during a welcoming ceremony for Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Beijing, China, on April 14, 2016...

China Coast Guard vessels patrol past Philippine fishing boats at the disputed Huangyan Island (Scarborough Shoal), in the South China Sea, on April 5, 2017...

This file photo shows children at a Saudi-funded madrassa in Pakistan...

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian (photo by AFP) China says it will slap sanctions on major US military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp...

People are seen on a makeshift raft in a flooded village following heavy rainfall in Huangshan, Anhui province, China, on July 6, 2020...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (photo by AFP) China says its relations with the United states are facing the most serious challenge since their establishment, urging the two countries to send out more positive energy...

A security personnel wearing a face mask stands guard at a residential area under lockdown near Yuquan East Market in Beijing, China, on June 15, 2020...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un speaks during the 13th Political Bureau meeting of the 7th Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea in this file image...

South Korean marines patrol along a military fence on the South Korea-controlled island of Yeonpyeong near the ’northern limit line’ sea boundary with North Korea on June 16, 2020...

South Korean soldiers are seen at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas...

The United States has decided to add 33 Chinese firms and institutions to an economic blacklist over alleged human rights violations or having ties with China’s military...

Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) perform drive-up COVID-19 testing administered from a car at Mend Urgent Care testing site for the novel coronavirus at the Westfield Culver City on April 24, 2020 in the Culver City neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, US...

(L-R) Hong Kong’s Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu, Secretary for Innovation and Technology Alfred Sit Wing-hang, Secretary for Civil Service Patrick Nip Tak-kuen, Chief Executive Carrie Lam, Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Erick Tsang Kwok-wai, and Secretary for Home Affairs Caspar Tsui Ying-wai pose for a group photo at the government headquarters in Hong Kong, on April 22, 2020...

IMAGE1 This photo, taken on April 8, 2020, shows a worker producing face masks that will be exported, at a factory in Nanchang, in China’s central Jiangxi Province...