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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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Light installation by Ukrainian artist and lighting designer Mykola Kabluka and the Expolight team appears on the Mother Ukraine monument on September 18, 2025, in Kyiv. (Getty Images)
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A protester burns a flare at Place de la Republique during a part of a Bloquons Tout (Let’s Block Everything) demonstration in Paris on September 10, 2025. (Getty Images)
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People cross a street in Tokyo on August 25, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto speaks during the NasDem party congress in Jakarta on August 27, 2024. (Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images)
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Visitors watch a show with at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore on February 7, 2024. (Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during the NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, on July 12, 2023. (Photo by Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Paul Sracic
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Jung Yeop Woo
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
