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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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China
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A Russian Yars intercontinental ballistic missile launcher parades through Red Square during the general rehearsal of the Victory Day military parade in central Moscow on May 7, 2022. (Photo by KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Chinese Leader Xi Jinping during a meeting in Xiamen, China, on September 3, 2017. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
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Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Mack-Lehigh Valley Operations Manufacturing Facility in Macungie, Pennsylvania on July 28, 2021. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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Xi Jinping speaks during a news conference, displayed on a television screen at a shopping area on June 30, 2022, in Hong Kong. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks at the plenary session during the Saint Petersburg Economic Forum SPIEF 2022, on June 17, 2022, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Photo by Contributor/Getty Images)
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Officers of the China Coast Guard stand on deck as they set sail in the North Pacific Ocean from Shanghai, on July 30, 2021. (Photo by Xinhua via Getty Images)
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The transporter erector, used to load Minuteman III ballistic missiles, is raised during an annual proofload test at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, on April 2, 2019. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Ashley Boster)
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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
