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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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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin arrives at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on March 21, 2023. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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TikTok on an iPhone on August 2, 2020. (Solen Feyissa via Unsplash)
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Airfield, buildings, and structures on the artificial island built by China in Spratly Islands on October 25, 2022 (Ezra Acayan via Getty Images)
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Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party, Saudi delegation, and Iranian delegation in Beijing, China, on March 10, 2023. (Luo Xiaoguang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow, Russia, March 21, 2023. (Ding Haitao/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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View from Mount Carmel of Haifa shipping port and city in northern Israel on October 12, 2022. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Kongsberg naval strike missile is launched from the littoral combat ship USS Coronado during missile testing operations off the coast of Southern California. (US Navy photo by Zachary D. Bell)
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David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
John Lee
Senior Fellow
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
