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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
Indo-Pacific
Indo-Pacific
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A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense weapon system is shown in Guam on Oct. 26, 2017
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U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meet Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defense Minister Linda Reynolds in Sydney, Aug. 4, 2019.
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Worshipers at an underground Catholic Mass in Henan Province, China, 2014
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Chinese communist leader Chairman Mao Zedong (L) welcomes US President Richard Nixon, at his house in Beijing
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General Secretary Xi Jinping speak ahead of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Republic of China, October 2019. (Getty Images)
Experts
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Bill Drexel
Fellow
Garrett Exner
Adjunct Fellow
David Feith
Senior Fellow
Mike Gallagher
Distinguished Fellow
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Charles Horner
Senior Fellow
Jason Hsu
Senior Fellow
Komei Isozaki
Japan Chair Fellow
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Mark Siegel
Adjunct Fellow
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Paul Sracic
Adjunct Fellow
Koichiro Takagi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Iku Tsujihiro
Research Associate
Riley Walters
Senior Fellow
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Richard Weitz
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
