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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)
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Chinese President Xi jinping delivers a speech during a banquet marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on September 30, 2019 in Beijing, China.
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French President Emmanuel Macron accompanies Chinese President Xi Jinping and German Chancellor Angela Merkel after their meeting at the Élysée Presidential Palace on March 26, 2019 in Paris, France.
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A rally in Sana’a, Yemen, against the U.S. designation of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, Jan. 25.
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China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 25, 2018.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks with US Vice President Joe Biden at the start of their meeting at the Chancellery on February 1, 2013 in in Berlin, Germany.
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An F/A-18F Super Hornet takes off from the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the South China Sea, Jan. 23.
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Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi arrives in Tehran after a week in exile, August, 1953.
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President Xi Jinping, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, and member of the Standing Committee of the Politburo Li Zhanshu and other attendees sit at the beginning of the Chinese People's Political and Consulting Conference on May 21, 2020
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An Israeli waves a flag during a parade marking Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall in 2009.
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David Asher
Senior Fellow
James Barnett
Research Fellow
Matthew Boyse
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
