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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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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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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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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)
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U.S.-China Summit Meeting, Rancho Mirage, California, June 8, 2013 (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images).
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YPF (Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales) gasoline tanks are seen in Rio Gallegos, Santa Cruz, some 2500 kms south west of Buenos Aires, on October 23, 2011 (JUAN MABROMATA/AFP/Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Thomas J. Duesterberg
Senior Fellow
