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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
China
China
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The USS Tuscon transits the East China Sea on July 26, 2010. (US Navy)
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US Navy aircraft rest on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the Philippine Sea on May 11, 2023. (David Rowe via DVIDS)
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A TV showing a file image of a North Korean missile launch on March 24, 2022, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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US Air Force pilot looks down at the suspected Chinese surveillance balloon as it hovered over the Central Continental, United States, on February 3, 2023. (US Department of Defense/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Pakistani military personnel stand beside a Shaheen III surface-to-surface ballistic missile during a Pakistan Day military parade in Islamabad on March 23, 2017. (Aamir Qureshi/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Joe Biden in Valhalla, New York, on May 10, 2023. (Mike Groll via Flickr)
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US Soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion engage targets with a pair of high mobility artillery rocket systems during Exercise Griffin Shock 23 live fire event in Bemowo Piskie, Poland, on May 19, 2023. (John Schoebel via DVIDS)
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A TikTok logo seen displayed on a smartphone screen in Athens, Greece, on May 7, 2023. (Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
