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Taiwanese troops hold a flag amid military readiness drills on January 11, 2023, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. (Getty Images)
Economics
Economics
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A young boy views a private swimming pool at a luxury residential area in Jiangmen, Guangdong Province, China, Febuary 15, 2005. (Cancan Chu/GettyImages)
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A soldier from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force carries an 84mm Carl Gustav rocket launcher during Exercise Iron Fist 2014, a joint-exercise with US Marines and sailors at Camp Pendleton on February 9, 2014. (FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/Getty Images)
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Chinese workers check compressors at Dalian Bingshan Group Co., Ltd. on September 10, 2013 in Dalian of Liaoning Province, China. (Feng Li/Getty Images)
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Spencer Bachus (R-AL) (C) lifts copies of the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill, September 8, 2011 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union speech on Capitol Hill on January 28, 2014 in Washington, DC.(Larry Downing-Pool/Getty Images)
Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
