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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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United States Marines prepare an RQ-7B Shadow during an exercise as part of Weapons and Tactics Instructor Course 2-15 near Yuma, Arizona, on April 10, 2015. (US Marine Corps vis DVIDS)
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People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of North Korea's artillery firing at a railway station on January 6, 2024, in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun via Getty Images)
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A US Marine Corps F/A-18D Hornet aircraft with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 takes off from Gwangju Air Base, Republic of Korea, on April 19, 2023. (Tyler Harmon via DVIDS)
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Japan's Self-Defense Forces 1st Airborne Brigade conduct descent training with allies US, UK, Canada, France, Germany, and Philippines on January 7, 2024, at Camp Narashino training area in Tokyo, Japan. (David Mareuil/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai is escorted by law enforcement officers on December 31, 2020, in Hong Kong. (Anthony Kwan via Getty Images)
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President-elect Lai Ching-te delivers a speech in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 13, 2024. (Alex Chan Tsz Yuk via Getty Images)
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Container ship YM Unanimity seen docked at its home port in Keelung, Taiwan, on October 16, 2016. (Craig Ferguson/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A CH-47 Chinook helicopter carries a Taiwan flag during National Day celebrations in Taipei on October 10, 2021. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)
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Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Pakistan activists protest in Lahore after Iran launched an airstrike in Pakistan's south-west Baluchistan province on January 19, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
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Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
David Asher
Senior Fellow
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
William Chou
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Japan Chair
