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The United States and United Nations flags. (Getty Images)
Global Economy
Global Economy
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Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during the United Russia Party Congress, on August 24, 2021 in Moscow, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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A worker cleans up the signage of a bank storefront on October 19, 2020 in Shanghai, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping shakes hands with Chinese workers at a construction site in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on June 1, 2013. (Frederic Dubray/AFP via Getty Images)
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Passengers are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Master Sgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Forces Europe-Africa via Getty Images)
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A worker at a construction site of a new bridge project on June 20, 2009 in Guiyang of Guizhou Province, China. (Photo by Wu Dongjun/Visual China Group via Getty Images)
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Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala arrives for the welcome ceremony on the first day of the Rome G20 summit, on October 30, 2021 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Senior Fellow
