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China's President Xi Jinping walks after delivering a speech in Beijing on September 29, 2024. (Adek Berry/AFP via Getty Images)
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Vehicles travel along the treacherous Srinagar Leh highway on August 27, 2024, in Ladakh, India. Ladakh is a strategically important region due to ongoing territorial disputes with Pakistan and China. (Yawar Nazir via Getty Images)
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Korean People's Army (KPA) soldiers march during a mass rally in Pyongyang on September 9, 2018. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Chinese national flag flies in front of St Joseph’s Church, also known as Wangfujing Catholic Church, in Beijing on October 22, 2020. (Greg Baker via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech in Beijing, China, on September 20, 2024. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
