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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump chats with Russia's President Vladimir Putin as they attend the Economic Leaders' Meeting in the Vietnamese city of Danang on November 11, 2017.(MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump greets Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba upon arrival outside the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
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Personnel of the Border Security Force take part in a full dress rehearsal parade in preparation for Republic Day celebrations on January 24, 2025, in Bengaluru, India. (Abhishek Chinnappa via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands following their meeting at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo, Japan, on November 6, 2017. (Kiyoshi Ota/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
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Ukrainian soldiers operate an American Humvee fitted with Soviet era Grad launcher in the direction of Toretsk, Ukraine, on January 23, 2025. (Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, US President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sit together outside the White House on March 26, 1979. (Wally McNamee/Corbis via Getty Images)
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United States Representatives of the 119th Congress are sworn in during the first day of session on January 3, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla via Getty Images)
Experts
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
