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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh fires a standard missile during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea on January 23, 2023. (Santiago Navarro via DVIDS)
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Abdul Ghani Baradar and Wang Yu attend a press conference to announce an oil extraction contract with a Chinese company in Kabul on January 5, 2023. (Ahmad Sahel Arman via Getty Images)
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A worker produces high-voltage silicon stack devices at a semiconductor manufacturing enterprise in Shandong, China, on July 17, 2023. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for Isaias Afwerki at the square outside the east entrance of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 15, 2023. (Wang Ye via Getty Images)
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Shavkat Mirziyoyev meets with Ebrahim Raisi within the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 16, 2022. (Iranian Presidency/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Research and Development Gallery at the National Museum of the US Air Force offers visitors the opportunity to view the world’s only remaining XB-70 at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio on June 17, 2021. (Tyler Greenlees via DVIDS)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers an important speech during his inspection of the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army PLA Eastern Theater Command on July 6, 2023. (Li Gang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow
