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A monument to the historic battle of Guningtou, which took place in 1949, on February 3, 2021, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with US senators before a closed-door meeting at the US Capitol on July 28, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on October 28, 2025, in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
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A Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A Lightning II flies alongside two F-35A Lightning IIs and an F-16 Fighting Falcon of the US Air Force over the Pacific Ocean near Misawa Air Base in Japan on September 30, 2025. (US Air Force)
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President of Nicaragua Daniel Ortega waves at Palacio Federal Legislativo on January 10, 2025, in Caracas, Venezuela. (Getty Images)
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Emergency responders work at the site of a Russian ballistic missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 1, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7 flies in formation over USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in the Arabian Sea on June 30, 2026. (US Navy)
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A tea vendor stands by stalled vehicles near the closed Pakistan-Afghanistan border town of Torkham on October 19, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio poses for a group photo with ASEAN foreign ministers on July 22, 2026, in Manila, Philippines. (Getty Images)
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A China-Europe train prepares to depart from the China-Kazakhstan Logistics Cooperation Base in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China, on January 16, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A US Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off from a base in the US Central Command area of responsibility on June 18, 2026. (US Air Force)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
