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The communist government of China announced on Tuesday that it would grant U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump a tour of Beijing’s Forbidden City on Wednesday, the residence of the Chinese emperor for almost 500 years.

China’s 19th Communist Party Congress, an event held every five years, is expected to consolidate President Xi Jinping’s power for years to come. Xi’s allies will be promoted, his adversaries will be chastised, and “Xi Jinping Thought” will be impressed upon China’s future.

Beijing has ordered 500 soldiers to accompany construction workers as they once again try to extend a road on the Doklam Plateau region that sits along China’s border with its regional rival India after New Delhi thwarted the communist country’s first attempt to expand the lane.

Beijing has indicated that it will continue to take advantage of America’s efforts to stabilize Afghanistan, supporting its ally Pakistan as it harbors the Afghan Taliban while mining Afghanistan’s resources.

China’s capital says it won’t be inviting Justin Bieber to perform in the country because of his past “bad behavior,” although it did concede that the Canadian singer has talent.

In a rare move, the Vatican expressed its displeasure with the Chinese government Monday for the recent disappearance of Bishop Peter Shao Zhumin of Wenzhou.

Satellite images published this week confirm that China has almost completed the construction of a variety of military assets in the Philippine and Vietnamese South China Sea, assets that allow it to deploy fighter jets and missile launchers at a moment’s notice and provide it expanded surveillance capabilities.

China’s federal patent court overturned a ruling by the city of Beijing’s Intellectual Property Bureau regulator that had threatened to ban sales of the Apple iPhone for violating a bankrupt Chinese firm’s exterior design patents.

Beijing plans to expand its influence across the Middle East and other Muslim-majority regions in response to a propaganda video purportedly showing Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL)-linked jihadists threatening to attack China, Voice of America (VOA) has learned from some analysts.

The government of Taiwan is planning to request the purchase of new fighter aircraft from the United States, The Guardian reported, just as it completes the transfer of two decommissioned U.S. Navy frigates.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit meant to bolster bilateral ties with China and to mark 25 years since the two countries established diplomatic relations.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and its rival al-Qaeda have recently published propaganda videos explicitly calling on jihadists from China’s Uighur minority who have joined the terrorist groups to attack the communist country.

Chinese state-run publication Global Times warned on Tuesday that President Donald Trump was leading the United States into “political chaos,” making the expansion of globalization – and international Chinese influence – necessary for global stability.

China’s Global Times concedes that the suspension of North Korean coal imports until 2018, plus a ban on many Chinese exports to North Korea, is “unprecedented.”

Pakistan has reaffirmed Islamabad’s stance against any foreign actors seeking to undermine ally China’s sovereignty and thanked Beijing for its support on national security.

The Chinese government has continued to protest the Trump administration’s repeated assurances it would oppose China’s ongoing colonization of international waters in the South China Sea, most recently challenging White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer for calling the waters in question “international territory.”

Heavy smog in northern China caused the closure of several highways and hundreds of flights Sunday.

Several lawyers in China have banded together to sue the governments of Beijing and other municipalities in the province of Hebei over the pervasive smog clouding the region.

China has agreed to invest 100 million yuan — more than $14 million — in new equipment for the Philippine police to be used in President Rodrigo Duterte’s ongoing campaign against drug crime.

In a television interview over the weekend, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said there was “serious concern” in Beijing about President-elect Donald Trump’s policy toward Taiwan.

When last we checked in on Hong Kong lawmakers Yau Wai-ching and Sixtus “Baggio” Leung, they had been banned from holding office by Beijing, which invoked a seldom-used clause of the “one country, two systems” legal code. One country with 1.5 systems seems closer to the truth.

Street demonstrations in Hong Kong on Sunday ended in a cloud of pepper spray, as Beijing conducted its most dramatic intervention in the semi-autonomous territory’s politics since 1997.

Fox News just received its answer to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed several weeks ago, in the form of State Department spokesman John Kirby admitting that, yes, one of Hillary Clinton’s senior aides did leave classified material unsecured and unattended in a Chinese hotel room.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is currently in Beijing, where he declared that “America has lost” the alliance with Manila and that he will work to strengthen ties with China, a nation that has usurped large swaths of Philippine territory in the South China Sea.

A few months ago, China’s mildly iconoclastic Consensus Media Group began worrying about Beijing’s authoritarian crackdown on “liberal voices in mainland publications.” Since that time, one of the group’s magazines has ceased publication, management has been reshuffled at another, and the popular “Consensus Net” website has suddenly gone dark.

China’s state-run news agency Xinhua reports that Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui criticized North Korea’s nuclear testing on Saturday, during a meeting with Pyongyang’s ambassador to China.

Moviegoers in China have taken to social media to complain of dizziness and nausea after viewing a special 3D presentation of action film Jason Bourne, released in the country this week.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has saved some of his most reserved public language for China, has warned Beijing to abstain from any physical invasion of disputed territories in the South China Sea or “it will be bloody” for both parties.

Citizens of China can rest easy, knowing that their authoritarian government has taken steps to protect them from the “vile effect” of independent journalism.

The order from China forbids live-blogging and live-streaming. The order does not affect social media and microblogging sites such as WeiBo and WeChat.

Speaking to NPR, Philippine political experts have expressed concern that the Obama administration’s support for their territorial claims in the South China Sea will evaporate, comparing the situation to President Obama’s long-abandoned “red line” in Syria.

Secretary of State John Kerry, visiting Mongolia on his way to China, warned Beijing Sunday that declaring an air defense zone over the South China Sea to be a “provocative and destabilizing act.”

In early April, the website of the Democratic Progressive Party was hijacked several times, diverting visitors to a fake website. California-based security company FireEye believes the attack, like many others plaguing Taiwan, was the work of mainland Chinese hackers.

The 2007 free trade agreement (FTA) between the People’s Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to favor the communist country, fueling its penetrating influence over its Muslim-majority neighbor, reveals a detailed analysis by current affairs magazine the Herald.

Tensions in the South China Sea continue slowly mounting, as China has denied the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis permission to make a port call in Hong Kong.

China is looking for Russia’s help to press its claims in the South China Sea, as the Philippines argues an important territorial dispute before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.