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A worker produces integrated circuit products in a workshop in Weihai, Shandong Province, China, on September 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
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U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, U.S. Secretary of State Blinken, Japanese Prime Minister Suga, Foreign Minister Motegi and Defense Minister Kishi on March 16, 2021 (Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, attend the Tsinghua Universitys ceremony, at Friendship Palace on April 26, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kenzaburo Fukuhara - Pool/Getty Images)
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A police offers shows heroine/fentanyl that was part of a kit that a woman was preparing to shoot inside a Walmart's bathroom on Sunday, February 10, 2019, in Manchester, NH. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Palau President Surangel Whipps, Jr. greets Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and US Ambassador to Palau John Hennessey-Niland during an international press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, 29 March 2021 (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall square in Taipei, Taiwan (Photo by Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images)
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China's President Xi Jinping during the closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 11, 2021 (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping (C) raises his hand to vote for the reports with other China's leaders at the closing of the 19th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on October 24, 2017 (WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)
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A propaganda billboard depicting Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, China. The sign reads: "We should build a people's army with a good style of work, able to win battles under the command of the Party". (Photo by Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images)
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North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un signing the order to carry out the test-fire of the intercontinental ballistic missile Hwasong-14 at an undisclosed location (STR/AFP via Getty Images)
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Judges from the Qilian Mountains ecological court visit the Liyuankou Battle Memorial Hall to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC) (Photo by Wang Jiang/VCG 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
