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Former Senior Fellow and Director for Chinese Strategy
Michael Pillsbury
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US Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, along with members of their delegation, hold a dinner meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the end of the G20 Leaders' Summit in Buenos Aires, on December 01,
Former Senior Fellow and Director for Chinese Strategy
Michael Pillsbury
In the Media
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French President Emmanuel Macron walks a street of Paris on December 2, 2018, a day after clashes during a protest of Yellow vests (Gilets jaunes) against rising oil prices and living costs. (Photo credit: GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT/AFP/Getty Images)
Christians pray during Palm Sunday mass inside the Cave Cathedral or St. Sama'ans Church on the Mokattam hills overlooking Cairo, Egypt on April 9, 2017. (Photo by Ibrahim Ezzat/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Afghan security forces and investigators gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a British security firm's compound in Kabul on November 30, 2018. At least 10 people were killed. (NOORULLAH SHIRZADA/AFP/Getty Images)