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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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Paramilitary soldiers cordon off the Supreme Court after arrival of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, Pakistan, on May 11, 2023. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Former Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks at an anti-government march in Gujranwala, Pakistan, on November 1, 2022, two days before he was shot in the foot at another rally. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
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The signing of the visitor book of Prime Minister of Japan H. E. Mr. Fumio Kishida on March 20, 2023. (MEAphotogallery via Flickr)
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John F. Kirby holds a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2022. (DoD photo by James K. Lee)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan, on March 17, 2023. (Yoshikazu Tsuno via Getty Images)
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Electoral agents counting votes during 2018 Pakistani general election. (Wikimedia Commons)
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The Brahmos supersonic cruise missile that was developed between India and Russia. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis Sygma via Getty Images)
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Activists of the Bhartiya Janata Party shout slogans against the state government for the recent alleged rapes and murders around the state in Kolkata on April 12, 2022. (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images)
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Crowds fill the tarmac while coalition forces form a security perimeter around the runway at Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan, on August 16, 2021. (US Air Force photo by Scott Hardman)
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Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
