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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi addresses reporters as Secretary of State John Kerry listens at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing, China, on May 16, 2015. (State Department)
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An anti-China protest outside the Chinese Embassy on July 12, 2019, in Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)
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Airline pilots walk through the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on December 27, 2021, in Arlington, Virginia. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
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Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signing the arms control agreement banning the use of intermediate-range nuclear missiles, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Reduction Treaty, in Washington DC on December 8, 1987. (Bettman via Getty Images)
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An Apple Store at a usually bustling intersection in a popular shopping district after recent COVID-19 outbreaks on May 23, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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An oil facility on Khark Island, Iran, on March 12, 2017. (Atta Kenare/AFP via Getty Images)
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German and Baltic NATO ships arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, in March 2022. (Frankie Fouganthin via Wikimedia Commons)
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William P. Barr
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Distinguished Fellow
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