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Stacks of Iranian rials and US dollars sit on a table in Tehran, Iran, on August 6, 2025. (Getty Images)
National Security and Defense
National Security and Defense
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China's DF-41 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles are seen during a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing on October 1, 2019, to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China (Photo by GREG BAKER / AF
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Taliban fighters on a pick-up truck move around a market area, flocked with local Afghan people at the Kote Sangi area of Kabul on August 17, 2021, after Taliban seized control of the capital following the collapse of the Afghan government (Photo by HOSHA
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The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, in China's central Hubei province, on February 3, 2021 (Getty Images)
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Taliban fighters in a vehicle patrol the streets of Kabul on August 23, 2021 (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images)
Experts
David Asher
Senior Fellow
William P. Barr
Distinguished Fellow
