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BYD’s chip Xuanji A3 is displayed during the 2026 World AI Conference on July 17, 2026, in Shanghai, China. (Getty Images)
North and South Korea
North and South Korea
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio poses for a group photo with ASEAN foreign ministers on July 22, 2026, in Manila, Philippines. (Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump greets South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at the White House on August 25, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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Sailors from the US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 1 and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force prepare for a mine-sweep exercise dive using an unmanned underwater vehicle to detect training mines in Japan’s Ise Bay on February 4, 2020. (US Air Force)
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The national flags of North Korea and China are displayed on a street in Pyongyang on June 8, 2026, as Xi Jinping arrives for his first official visit to North Korea since 2019. (Getty Images)
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Japanese Defence Minister Koizumi Shinjiro speaks during the 23rd IISS Shangri-La Dialogue at the Shangri-La Hotel on May 31, 2026, in Singapore. (Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on May 14, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A cargo ship loads and unloads foreign trade containers at Busan Newport in Busan, South Korea, on July 23, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Rusty KMTC Line ship and commercial port cranes loading containers onto a container ship in Busan Port, Korea, on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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A Tencore unmanned ground vehicle TerMIT is seen being driven through the snow during a demonstration on February 20, 2026, in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
Experts
Jung Yeop Woo
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
