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The Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning prepares for sea trials at Dalian shipyard on February 29, 2024, in Dalian, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Domestic Policy
Domestic Policy
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai founder and owner of Apple Daily newspaper is being escorted by Correctional Service Department officers to leave the Court of Final Appeal on December 31, 2020, in Hong Kong, China. (Anthony Kwan via Getty Images)
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Immigrants from Venezuela walk toward a US Border Patrol transit center after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States on January 8, 2024, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (John Moore via Getty Images)
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Joint session of the National Assembly and Senate in Islamabad, Pakistan, on February 14, 2020. (Murat Kula via Getty Images)
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Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City on January 12, 2024. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers the keynote address at the 2023 Reagan National Defense Forum at the the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on December 2, 2023. (DoD via Flickr)
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Pakistan People's Party supporters attend an election campaign rally in Lahore on January 21, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul participates in a multinational military exercise with NATO allies as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group on October 5, 2022. (Kerri Kline via DVIDS)
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Army JROTC Cadets at Fort Knox on November 3,2023, during a JROTC National Raider Challenge. (Nathan Abbott via DVIDS)
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Low Memorial Library and Quad at Columbia University in New York City. (Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Experts
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
Rachel Mackey
Research Fellow and Assistant Director, Hudson Institute Political Studies
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
