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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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China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 25, 2018.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with US Vice President Joe Biden at the start of their meeting at the Chancellery on February 1, 2013 in in Berlin, Germany.
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet takes off from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the South China Sea, Jan. 23.
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Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi arrives in Tehran after a week in exile, August, 1953.
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President Xi Jinping, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, and member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo Li Zhanshu and other attendees sit at the beginning of the Chinese People's Political and Consulting Conference on May 21, 2020
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An Israeli waves a flag during a parade marking Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in 2009.
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
