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An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III ICBM launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
China
China
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People protesting against China's Zero-COVID policy in solidarity with Urumqi people at Tiananmen Memorial in Chinatown, Boston, on December 2, 2022. (Tang Ka Huen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, on June 27, 2006. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Visitors look at Alibaba DAMO Academy’s core components of quantum computer during the Apsara Conference 2021 on October 19, 2021, in Hangzhou, China. (Photo by Long Wei/VCG via Getty Images)
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The medium-displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sits pierside at Naval Base San Diego during the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Establishment ceremony on May 13, 2022, in San Diego, California. (US Navy photo by Kevin C. Leitner)
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A Cosco Shipping container ship prepares to dock at Yantai, China, on December 29, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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A journalist takes a photo of a live feed of Xi Jinping speaking at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on May 14, 2017. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Statue of Chairman Mao. (Stock Image)
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Newly appointed Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, then Archbishop of Hong Kong, receives the cardinalitial ring from Pope Benedict XVI in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City on March 25, 2006. (Franco Origlia via Getty Images)
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Travelers walk out of Shanghai Railway Station on December 8, 2022, in Shanghai, China. (VCG via Getty Images)
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Portraits of Xi Jinping and Mao Zedong in Beijing, China, on September 19, 2017. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
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
Ken Moriyasu
Senior Fellow
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
