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Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump holds up a copy of a 2025 National Trade Estimate Report as he speaks at an event at the White House on April 2, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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The Ukrainian flag and the Motherland Monument in Kyiv on August 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Teresa Lai and Lai Shun-yan, the respective wife and son of Jimmy Lai, and Cardinal Joseph Zen, the former bishop of Hong Kong, arrive at the West Kowloon Law Courts building in Hong Kong on December 15, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A rat guard painted in the tricolor of the French flag is seen as the French Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is docked in Indonesia on January 28, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Prof. Peter Drucker talking to a group of top business, industrial, and government leaders from Poland on March 1, 1965, at New York University. (Getty Images)
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European Union flags are seen at the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels on July 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
