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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Economics
Economics
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South Korean protesters during an anti-Japan rally in front of the Japanese embassy on December 27, 2013 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff speaks at Planalto Palace on December 2, 2013. (EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images)
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China's President Xi Jinping reviews the guard of honour upon his arrival at Planalto Palace on July 17, 2014 in Brasilia. (NELSON ALMEIDA/AFP/Getty Images)
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A Chinese Navy submarine attends an international fleet review to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army Navy on April 23, 2009 off Qingdao in Shandong Province. (Guang Niu/AFP/Getty Images)
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(Map by David Alpert/Greater Greater Washington)
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Protesters sing songs and wave their cell phones in the air after a massive thunderstorm passed over outside the Hong Kong Government Complex on September 30, 2014. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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U.S. Representative Henry Waxman, March 21, 2014. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images for UCLA)
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Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi speaks at the 69th United Nations General Assembly on September 27, 2014 in New York City. (Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
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Leslie Lindeman, a motor man for Raven Drilling, works on an oil rig drilling into the Bakken shale formation on July 28, 2013 outside Watford City, North Dakota. (Andrew Burton/Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
