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Chinese People's Liberation Army honour guard members march during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People on November 12, 2025, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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A Ukrainian soldier fires a US-made MK-19 automatic grenade launcher towards Russian positions in less than 800 metres away at a front line in Donetsk, Ukraine, on October 12, 2022. (Dave Clark/AFP via Getty Images)
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Israeli navy vessels off the coast of Rosh Hanikra, an area at the border between Israel and Lebanon, on June 6, 2022. (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
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A fire at a power station in Kyiv, Ukraine, after Russian shelling on October 18, 2022. (State Emergency Service of Ukraine via Wikimedia Commons)
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Vladimir Putin. (Kremlin)
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Joe Biden welcomes Xi Jinping for his first visit to the United States at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, DC, on September 24, 2015. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen via Getty Images)
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People gather in protest against the the Iranian regime on September 19, 2022, in Tehran, Iran, following the death of Mahsa Amini in custody of the country's morality police. (Getty Images)
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A destroyed tank in the town of Suqovusan, part of the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, on December 2, 2020, after a US-brokered ceasefire temporarily ended fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan. (Karen Monasyan/AFP via Getty Images)
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US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman shakes hands with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on June 13, 2022. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
