Indo-Pacific

Guests hold Japanese and American flags as they wait for the arrival ceremony for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Mrs. Yuko Kishida of Japan at White House on April 10, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)

Sailors on the USS Green Bay participate in a visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) drill with JS Osumi of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) as part of Exercise Iron Fist near Japan on March 4, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Matthew Cavenaile)

A statue of Mao Zedong in Lijiang, China. (Wikimedia Commons)

US and Chinese defense leadership meet in Beijing on June 27, 2018. (Army Sgt. Amber I. Smith via DVIDS)

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Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives from the American business, strategic, and academic communities at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 27, 2024. (Photo by Shen Hong via Getty Images)

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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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)

Machines load and unload coal at Lianyungang Port in Lianyungang City, China, on May 24, 2023. (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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）

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)