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** FILE ** In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers clear the debris of a damaged house in quake-hit Majiagou Village of Minxian County, northwest China's Gansu Province, Monday, July 22, 2013. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Guo Gang)

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China this week showed off a new air-to-air missile loaded inside the weapons bay of the People's Liberation Army J-20 stealth fighter jet. The weapons hold for the J-20 appears twice as large as that of the U.S. F-22 Raptor. (Chinese Internet and state media)

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Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang listens at left as Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the opening session of the 2013 Strategic and Economic Dialogue on July 10, 2013, at the State Department in Washington. (Associated Press)

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A U.N. committee in charge of monitoring arms sanctions on North Korea concludes that China provided off-road vehicles — "lumber transporters" — that were converted into long-range missile launchers by the North Korean military.

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** FILE ** American Chip Starnes, co-owner of Specialty Medical Supplies, looks out from a window after he was hostage by workers inside his plant at the Jinyurui Science and Technology Park in Qiao Zi township of Huairou District, on the outskirts of Beijing, China, Monday, June 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

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Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest mountain in the world, is seen from the Karakorum Highway, leading to neighboring China, in Pakistan's northern area. Gunmen wearing police uniforms killed nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani before dawn on Sunday, June 23, 2013, at the base camp on the mountain. (AP Photo/Musaf Zaman Kazmi)