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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945. (Wikimedia Commons)
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President Tsai Ing-wen with Speaker Nancy Pelosi at the Presidential Office Building in Taipei on August 3, 2022. (Taiwan Presidential Office)
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The manned Shenzhou-12 spacecraft onboard the Long March-2F rocket launches at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on June 17, 2021, in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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People's Liberation Army Honor Guard attend a flag-raising ceremony at the Tiananmen Square to mark the seventy-second anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2021, in Beijing, China. (VCG via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers comb through wreckage after Russian shelling in Kyiv on June 26, 2022. (Kyiv City State Administration via Wikimedia Commons)
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Nancy Pelosi and Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in Taipei, Taiwan, on August 3, 2022. (Chien Chih-Hung / Office of the President)
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addresses reporters as Secretary of State John Kerry listens at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China, on May 16, 2015. (State Department)
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Vladimir Putin, together with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and First Deputy Defence Minister Valery Gerasimov, observed the main stage of the Vostok-2022 strategic command post exercise at the Sergeyevsky range in the Primorye Territory. (Kremlin)
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Experts
David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
John Lee
Senior Fellow
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
