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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
UC Foundation Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Saeid Golkar is the UC Foundation Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow on Middle East Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change in the UK.