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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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

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

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

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

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’

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 "Bill" 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

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’

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

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

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

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Stoltenberg earlier criticized China for “bullying its neighbors and threatening Taiwan” and stressed the need for Japan and other democracies to work together with the alliance to defend the international order.

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