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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, United States President Joe Biden, and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hold a press conference after a trilateral meeting during the AUKUS summit on March 13, 2023, in San Diego, California. (Leon Neal via Getty Images)
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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Department of State via Flickr)
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President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shake hands at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California, on March, 13, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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People line up to visit huge portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the 78th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on October 10, 2023. (Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images)
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A Chinese Coast Guard vessel collides with a Philippine supply boat near the Second Thomas Shoal, part of the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone, on October 23, 2023. (Screenshot of China Coast Guard video via Reuters)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un before a meeting April 25, 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov via Getty Images)
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Aviation Boatswain's Mate observes an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Tomcatters" of Strike Fighter Squadron landing on the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on October 13, 2023. (Jacob Mattingly via DVIDS)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Bill Drexel
Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Charles Horner
Senior Fellow
Jason Hsu
Senior Fellow
Jun Isomura
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
Tim Morrison
Senior Fellow
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
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Nury Turkel
Senior Fellow
Riley Walters
Senior Fellow
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
