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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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The warship formations of China and Russia sail through the Tsugaru Strait during the naval exercise Joint Sea-2021 on October 18, 2021 in the Western part of the Pacific Ocean. (Photo by Sun Zifa/China News Service via Getty Images)
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Warships take part in the main naval parade marking Russian Navy Day in the Gulf of Finland. (Photo by Alexander Demianchuk\TASS via Getty Images)
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Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda, and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Photo by PETRAS MALUKAS/AFP via Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo speaks during the daily White House briefing November 9, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the Biden administration's Indo-Pacific strategy at the Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia on December 14, 2021. (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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A worker cleans up the signage of a bank storefront on October 19, 2020 in Shanghai, China. (VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping shakes hands with Chinese workers at a construction site in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, on June 1, 2013. (Frederic Dubray/AFP via Getty Images)
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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
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President Tsai Ing-wen gives a speech on Taiwan's National Day in Taipei, Taiwan on October 10, 2020. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/NurPhoto 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
