Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Army veteran Stephen Hedger is hugged by his son Lincoln as he visits the gravesite of U.S. Army Major Paul Douglas Carron at Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, November 11, 2021 in Arlington, Virginia. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Former Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Casey Michel
Former Adjunct Fellow, Kleptocracy Initiative
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Former Adjunct Fellow, Kleptocracy Initiative
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A visual representation of the digital Cryptocurrency Bitcoin is on display in front of the Bitcoin course's graph on October 21, 2021 in Paris, France. (Photo illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People on December 4, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Ablikim and Ayshem Turkel hold Nury Turkel in 1971, shortly after Nury and his mother were released from a Chinese "reeducation camp." (Courtesy of Nury Turkel)