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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Leader Xi Jinping pose during their meeting in Beijing, on February 4, 2022. (Photo by Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Taiwanese soldier in position during an Army Preparedness Enhancement Drill amid escalating Chinese tensions in Taiwan. (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian servicemen stands in a trench at the contact line near the village of Svitlodarsk, in Ukraine's Donestsk region on February 13, 2022. (Photo by Manu Brabo/Getty Images)
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Michael Doran, director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East. Photo illustration: Shoshana Gordon/Axios.
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Royal Australian Navy submarine HMAS Rankin conducts helicopter transfers during a training assessment on February 12, 2021 in Cockburn Sound, Australia. (Photo by LSIS Richard Cordell/Australian Defence Force via Getty Images)
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Home buyers look at models at a real estate sales office in Qingzhou city, East China's Shandong Province, Dec 21, 2021. (Wang Jilin/Costfoto/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
David Asher
Senior Fellow
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
William Chou
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Japan Chair
