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China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on April 21, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
Central Asia
Central Asia
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Leaders and officials pose ahead of the 32nd Arab League Summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on May 19, 2023. (Bandar Aljaloud via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken visits the Khast-Imam in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 1, 2023. (State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Uzbek Acting Foreign Minister Bakhtiyor Saidov in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on March 1, 2023. (State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
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The Iranian flag flies outside the country's embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, on January 27, 2023. (Aziz Karimov/Getty Images)
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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov meets with NATO officials in Brussels, Belgium, on July 19, 2022. (NATO via Flickr)
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Vladimir Putin meets with military staff at the Kremlin on December 17, 2022. (Kremlin)
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Refugees flee over a destroyed bridge on October 1, 2022 in Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Paula Bronstein /Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping attends the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 16, 2022. (Shanghai Cooperation Organization/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Experts
Ken Moriyasu
Senior Fellow
