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US sailors conduct routine maintenance on a jet blast deflector on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Nimitz on July 9, 2025. (US Navy)
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An activist holds a Bible and a blue cross on the Christian flag outside the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, on September 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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The Chinese flag flies in front of the gate to the Forbidden City on Tiananmen Square on March 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
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An aerial view of an intersection in downtown Babylon Village, New York, with the steeple of the First Presbyterian Church in the background, on June 26, 2024. (Getty Images)
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People walk through the Cornell University campus on November 3, 2023, in Ithaca, New York, after the university canceled classes due to a student being accused of making violent antisemitic threats. (Getty Images)
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Pro-democracy activists line up outside the West Kowloon court as they hold a banner that reads, “Release all political prisoners,” on March 1, 2021, in Hong Kong, China. (Getty Images)
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A Beijing demonstrator blocks the path of a tank convoy along the Avenue of Eternal Peace near Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. (Getty Images)
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People gather in front of the Chinese consulate general to protest the unjust conviction of media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai on February 14, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)
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China's national flag flutters in the wind next to the CITIC tower on May 12, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
Experts
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Lela Gilbert
Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom
