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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)
Russia
Russia
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Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 15, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Refugees fleeing Ukraine arrive at the border train station of Zahony on March 10, 2022 in Zahony, Hungary. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videolink in Moscow on March 11, 2022. (Photo by Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)
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Protesters hold signs expressing their opinion during a protest against Russia's military invasion of Ukraine at the Liberty square in Taipei. (Photo by Walid Berrazeg/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A pedestrian walks amid debris following a shelling in Ukraine's second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 7, 2022. (Photo by Sergey Bobok/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian navy sailors hold the flags of participating countries in Exercise Sea Breeze 2021 in Odesa, Ukraine, July 4, 2021. (U.S. Navy)
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A man looks on at a snow-covered security checkpoint that marks the entrance to Logar province, beyond the southern gate on January 17, 2022 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Photo by Scott Peterson/Getty Images)
Experts
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Can Kasapoğlu
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
