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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
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Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi attends a press conference at the prime minister's office on September 16, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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A visitor uses her phone at the Chinese Military Museum in Beijing. (Wang Zhao/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian battlecruiser 'Pjotr Velikij' passes the Great Belt Bridge as it leads nuclear submarine 'Dmitrij Donskoj' through the Danish waters on July 21, 2017 near Korsor, Denmark. (Photo by Ole Jensen - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
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A demonstrator wearing a mask painted with the colors of the flag of East Turkestan takes part in a protest by supporters of the Uighur minority on April 1, 2021 at beyazid square in Istanbul (Photo by OZAN KOSE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in Beijing (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Chinese paramilitary police guard the outside of the Grand Bazaar in the Uighur area in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region on July 12, 2009 (PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Members of a People's Liberation Army band stand together at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party on July 1, 2021 at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in Beijing (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
David Asher
Senior Fellow
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
William Chou
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Japan Chair
