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US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng pose for photographs before their meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on August 29, 2023. (Andy Wong/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of the new toll section of the M-4 Don highway at the Kremlin in Moscow on June 15, 2023. (Gavriil Grigorov/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)

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President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 23, 2023. (GovernmentZA via Flickr)

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President Joe Biden hosts a bilateral meeting with President Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. of the Philippines on September 21, 2022, at the InterContinental Barclay in New York. (Adam Schultz via Official White House)

Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, US President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio arrive for a joint news conference following three-way talks at Camp David on August 18, 2023, in Camp David, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)