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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch Complex 39A on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls via DVIDS)
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's President Xi Jinping toast during a reception at the Kremlin, Moscow, on March 21, 2023. (Pavel Byrkin/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Brahmos supersonic cruise missile that was developed between India and Russia. (Pallava Bagla/Corbis Sygma via Getty Images)
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A soldier with the First Amphibious Rapid Deployment Regiment, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, takes part in a training exercise on March 3, 2023, in Kagoshima, Japan. (US Marine Corps photo by Vincent Pham)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin arrives at the Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow, Russia, on March 21, 2023. (Contributor via Getty Images)
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TikTok on an iPhone on August 2, 2020. (Solen Feyissa via Unsplash)
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Airfield, buildings, and structures on the artificial island built by China in Spratly Islands on October 25, 2022 (Ezra Acayan via Getty Images)
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Nakhimov Square in Sevastopol, Crimea on March 19, 2023. (Vladimir Aleksandrov via Getty Images)
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An Iranian flag waves next to an Emad surface-to-surface missile in downtown Tehran on April 29, 2022. (Morteza Nikoubazl via Getty Images)
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
