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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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An employee shows a Phantom DJI drone at a store in Shanghai on May 27, 2019. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
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People protesting against China's Zero-COVID policy in solidarity with Urumqi people at Tiananmen Memorial in Chinatown, Boston, on December 2, 2022. (Tang Ka Huen/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
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A portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong at the Tiananmen Gate in Beijing, China, on June 27, 2006. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Visitors look at Alibaba DAMO Academy’s core components of quantum computer during the Apsara Conference 2021 on October 19, 2021, in Hangzhou, China. (Photo by Long Wei/VCG via Getty Images)
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The medium-displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sits pierside at Naval Base San Diego during the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One Establishment ceremony on May 13, 2022, in San Diego, California. (US Navy photo by Kevin C. Leitner)
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A Cosco Shipping container ship prepares to dock at Yantai, China, on December 29, 2022. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)
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A journalist takes a photo of a live feed of Xi Jinping speaking at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on May 14, 2017. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
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Newly appointed Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-Kiun, then Archbishop of Hong Kong, receives the cardinalitial ring from Pope Benedict XVI in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City on March 25, 2006. (Franco Origlia via Getty Images)
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Alexander Aibel
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
William Chou
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Japan Chair
