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A US infantryman releases a Neros Archer small unmanned aircraft system for a test flight at Fort Irwin in California on October 25, 2025. (US Army)
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Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte (R) by his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping before a signing ceremony in Beijing on October 20, 2016. (NG HAN GUAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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US President Barack Obama (L) speaking during a press conference in Hangzhou, China, and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte (R) speaking during a press conference in Davao City, the Philippines, September 5, 2016. (SAUL LOEB,MANMAN DEJETO/AFP/Getty Imag
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People hold portraits of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Siriraj hospital, on June 13, 2016 in Bangkok, Thailand. (Dario Pignatelli/Getty Images)
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Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Asia. (Gavin Hellier / robertharding)
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A South Korean student waves national flags during a rally on February 22, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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People watch a news report on North Korea's first hydrogen bomb test at a railroad station in Seoul on January 6, 2016. (JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
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His holiness the Dalai Lama attends the third day of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2015 in Glastonbury, England. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor during an 2013 exercise. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Charles Horner
Senior Fellow
Jason Hsu
Senior Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
John Lee
Senior Fellow
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Mark Siegel
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Paul Sracic
Adjunct Fellow
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Riley Walters
Senior Fellow
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
