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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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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a meeting with President Joe Biden in the White House on September 21, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
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Firefighters push out a fire as police experts look for fragments of missile at a crater on an industrial area of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, after a massive overnight missile attack to Ukraine on September 21, 2023. (Sergei Supinkey/AFP via Getty Images)
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US army soldiers assigned to the 10th Mountain Division stand security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on August 15, 2021. (Isaiah Campbell via DVIDS)
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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
