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Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
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Soldiers of Chinese navy stand in line on the ship before they go to the Somalia Waters on April 3, 2015 in Zhoushan, China. (ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images)
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Rohingya migrants on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman, May 14, 2015. (CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT/AFP/Getty Images)
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Significant construction and dredging underway at Mischief Reef, March 16, 2015. (Photo DigitalGlobe via Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks on before taking a ride in a Model S P85D with Tesla CEO Elon Musk at Tesla's headquarters in Palo Alto, California on April 30, 2015. (Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
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South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the US ambassador's residence in The Hague on March 25, 2014. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
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Russian nuclear missile Topol-M (rusm/Getty Images)
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Australians Andrew Chan (R) and Myuran Sukumaran (L) behind the bars of a court cell before their trial in Denpasar, on Bali island, February 14, 2006. (JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)
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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe addresses a joint meeting of Congress in the Capitol's House chamber, April 29, 2015. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
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Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe arrives at the 2014 Nuclear Security Summit on March 24, 2014 in The Hague, Netherlands. (Evert-Jan Daniels - Pool/Getty Images)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Charles Horner
Senior Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior 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
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Mark Siegel
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Paul Sracic
Adjunct Fellow
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Nury Turkel
Senior Fellow
Riley Walters
Senior Fellow
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
