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A flag of the United Nations flies at the United Nations Offices in Geneva on August 14, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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President Donald Trump takes questions from the press during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus at the White House on April 1, 2020, in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Roger Gallet of the National Bureau of Standards charting the path of Sputnik I (Carl Iwasaki/LIFE Images)
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Members of the Maryland Army National Guard work to set up a triage tent in the parking lot outside of the emergency room at Adventist HealthCare White Oak Medical Center on March 19, 2020 in Silver Spring, Maryland. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Huoshenshan Hospital in Wuhan, China on March 10, 2020. (Xinhua/Xie Huanchi via Getty Images)
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Tedros Adhanom, Director General of the World Health Organization shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting at the Great Hall of the People, on January 28, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Naohiko Hatta/Getty Images)
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President Donald J. Trump holds a briefing in response to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at the White House on Monday, March 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping chairs a teleconference after the field inspection of Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, on March 10, 2020. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
