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Exporting cars line up at Toyota Pier of Nagoya Port circa December 1976, in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects troops during a parade commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on September 3, 2015. (Huang Xiaobang via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump speaks to UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a North Atlantic Council plenary meeting during the NATO summit on June 25, 2025, in The Hague, Netherlands. (Kin Cheung via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meets with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during an ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 11, 2025. (Mandel Ngan via Getty Images)
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Construction of roads and railways that will pass through the Zangezur Corridor continues in Zangilan, Azerbaijan, on October 9, 2023. (Resul Rehimov via Getty Images)
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President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with President Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Qingdao, China, on June 10, 2018. (Sergei Guneyev via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump looks on as Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Jim Watson via Getty Images)
Experts
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
