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China’s President Xi Jinping walks to the Monument to the People’s Heroes during a wreath-laying ceremony to honor deceased national heroes on Martyrs’ Day in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on September 30, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Excavators and transport vehicles work at Dexing Copper Mine on August 16, 2024, in Shangrao, China. (Getty Images)
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A Japan Air Self Defense Force F-15E Strike Eagle performs a demonstration during Air Fest 2025 at Misawa Air Base in Japan on September 21, 2025. (US Air Force)
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China’s liquid-fueled intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles DongFeng-5C pass through Tiananmen Square during a military parade on September 3, 2025 in Beijing. (Getty Images)
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The TikTok logo displays on a phone with the US flag on a laptop screen in Krakow, Poland, on January 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles and Japan’s Defence Minister General Nakatani hold a joint press announcement aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class stealth frigate JS Mikuma at the JMSDF naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on September 5, 2025. (Getty Images)
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People attend a gathering to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on September 3, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Two US Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs fly in formation prior to conducting air-to-air refueling over Utah on July 1, 2025. (US Air Force photo)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
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)
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
