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Iranian workers walk past a destroyed residential building due to Israeli attacks in Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
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A brigade of the People’s Liberation Army takes part in a combat drill in Zhangzhou, China, on September 2, 2022. (CFOTO via Getty Images)
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A statue of Mao Zedong in Lijiang, China. (Wikimedia Commons)
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US and Chinese defense leadership meet in Beijing on June 27, 2018. (Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith via DVIDS)
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President Joe Biden listens to Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a press conference at the Camp David Trilateral Summit in Maryland on August 18, 2023. (Photo by Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
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Machines load and unload coal at Lianyungang Port in Lianyungang City, China, on May 24, 2023. (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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中国の湖北省宜昌市の建設中の商業家屋、2023年10月18日撮影（写真提供Costfoto/ Nurphoto、Getty Images）
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A police officer looking at League of Social Democrats protesting outside the Central Government office on October 25, 2023, in Hong Kong, China. (Vernon Yuen via Getty Images)
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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng prior to a meeting on April 6, 2024, in Guangzhou, China. (Ken Ishii via Getty Images)
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A crewman does preflight checks on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for launch aboard a MKVI patrol boat on October 16, 2019, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo by Chief Boatswain’s Mate Nelson Doromal Jr.)
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes the Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui at the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, Russia, on May 26, 2023. (Photo by Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Charles Horner
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
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
Nury Turkel
Senior Fellow
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
