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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with business leaders at the US Ambassador’s Residence on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
China
China
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Ukrainian soldiers comb through wreckage after Russian shelling in Kyiv on June 26, 2022. (Kyiv City State Administration via Wikimedia Commons)
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Nancy Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 3, 2022. (Chien Chih-Hung / Office of the President)
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addresses reporters as Secretary of State John Kerry listens at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China, on May 16, 2015. (State Department)
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Vladimir Putin, together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, observed the main stage of the Vostok-2022 strategic command post exercise at the Sergeyevsky range in the Primorye Territory. (Kremlin)
In the Media
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Xi Jinping leaves the podium in Hong Kong at a celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the city's handover from Britain to China. (Selim Chtayti/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow
