China

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Chinese writer Mo Yan attends a press conference in Gaomi, his hometown, in east China's Shandong province Friday Oct. 12, 2012. Nobel Prize for literature winner Mo Yan has expressed hope that China's imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo will regain his freedom. Chinese calligraphy at right reads "all rivers run into the sea" meant to describe something as all encompassing. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** In this Sept. 21, 2012 photo, people view housing models on display during the China Property and Investment Show in Beijing, China. People in China are increasingly worried about corruption, inequality and food safety, according to a survey that also found that about half of Chinese like American ideas about democracy. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

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Illustration China in Afghanistan by John Camejo for The Washington Times

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A container ship from China is docked at Massport's Conley Terminal in Boston on Friday, July 13, 2012. The U.S. trade deficit widened in August as exports fell to the lowest level in six months, a worrisome sign that a slowing global economy is cutting into demand for U.S. goods (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

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Anti-Japan demonstrators overturn a Japanese-made car in Suzhou, China, last month after Japan nationalized islands that both nations claim but Japan controls. Sales of Japanese-made vehicles nose-dived in China, and a new report predicts a 70 percent drop October through December. (The Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers (left), Michigan Republican, who is House Intelligence Committee chairman, and Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland Democrat, who is his party's ranking member on the panel, confer on Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, after releasing a report on an 11-month probe of China’s two leading technology firms, Huawei Technologies Ltd. and ZTE Corp. The report warns that the two telecommunications makers pose a major security threat to the U.S. (Associated Press)

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Illustration: China by M. Ryder for The Washington Times

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Illustration: China by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters on Sept. 27, 2012. (Associated Press)

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The newly commissioned Liaoning is China’s first aircraft carrier. It was put into service on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, underscoring the country’s ambitions to be a leading Asian naval power, although no warplanes have been seen taking off from or landing on the ship — making its current utility as a strategic power projection tool questionable. (Associated Press)

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Chinese President Hu Jintao inspects the guard of honor on the aircraft carrier Liaoning at a naval base in Dalian in northeast China’s Liaoning province on Tuesday. China formally entered its first aircraft carrier into service on Tuesday. (Associated Press)