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A see-off ceremony for newly recruited soldiers is held on September 16, 2025, in Fuyang, China. (Getty Images)
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Japan's Ground Self-Defense Forces (JGSDF) soldiers during a live fire exercise at JGSDF's training grounds in the East Fuji Maneuver Area on May 22, 2021 in Gotemba, Shizuoka, Japan. (Photo by Akio Kon - Pool/Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping attends the ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the return of Macau to China on December 20, 2019, in Macau, China. (Getty Images)
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Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev poses with a Harop drone in Jabrayil, Azerbaijan (Press Service, Republic of Azerbaijan)
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Vice President of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue gestures while arriving at the inauguration of Incumbent South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on May 25, 2019 (MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
