Foreign Policy
Foreign Policy
![Russian President Vladimir Putin](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2022-09/GettyImages-1235194627.jpg?h=5c1807ee&itok=yZmk932a)
![BEIJING, CHINA - OCTOBER 22: Chinese national flags flutter on the Great Hall of the People on October 22, 2022 in Beijing, China. The 20th CPC National Congress concluded on Saturday in Beijing. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.13.2023%20Lee%20Memo%20Magic.jpg?h=8dd9b738&itok=tsaBwdrk)
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Chinese national flags on the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on October 22, 2022. (VCG via Getty Images)
![A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 Globemaster III flies in front of a U.S. C-17 during an aerial maneuver training mission around the Hawaiian islands as part of Exercise Global Dexterity 2022 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, May 4, 2022. The RAAF and USAF conducted joint flying missions alongside each other and swapped aircrew members to better learn of each others’ procedures and techniques. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Makensie Cooper)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.13.2023%20Lee%20Memo.jpg?h=91e6b037&itok=kpFRI3mU)
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American and Australian C-17 Globemasters take part in an aerial maneuver training mission in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 4, 2022. (US Airforce photo by Makensie Cooper)
Reports
![Members of 5th Special Forces Group conducting 50. caliber weapons training during counter-ISIS operations at Al Tanf Garrison in southern Syria on November 25, 2017. (DVIDS)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.13.2023%20Doran%20Memo_0.jpg?h=a141e9ea&itok=ohrlkjge)
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Members of Fifth Special Forces Group conducting .50 caliber weapons training during counter-ISIS operations at al-Tanf Garrison in southern Syria on November 25, 2017. (DVIDS)
![US-Israel military exercise](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/1.13%20Mead.jpeg?h=c625d2ae&itok=FRh7Ob3T)
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(Wikimedia Commons)
![WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 13: U.S. President Joe Biden poses for photographs with Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio after his arrival at the White House on January 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. Fumio is in Washington to meet with his counterparts during a round-the-world trip. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.13.2023%20Weinstein%20NY%20Sun.jpg.jpg?h=8ba42fe7&itok=r8hWxl98)
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Joe Biden poses for photographs with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida after his arrival at the White House on January 13, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
![50602-N-IU636-204 PEARL HARBOR (June 2, 2015) A member of the Japanese community in Hawaii welcomes the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ship JS Kashima (TV 3508) as it arrives at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Kashima is joined by JS Yamagiri (DD 152) and JS Shimayuki (TV 3513) for a scheduled port visit. While in Hawaii, JMSDF sailors will participate in wreath-laying ceremonies at the USS Arizona Memorial, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific (Punchbowl) and Makiki Cemetery. The JMSDF has](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.13.2023%20Cronin%20Defaero.jpg?h=b2d9f031&itok=naK8rUZe)
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A man welcomes the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force ship JS Kashima to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on June 2, 2015. (US Navy photo by Johans Chavarro)
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(Flickr)
Commentary
![Pro-Ukraine demonstrators outside the US capital as President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelensky addresses a joint meeting of Congress on December 21, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.11%20Coffey%20Rough%20Memo.jpg.jpg?h=641380dd&itok=fXc_ttmK)
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Pro-Ukraine demonstrators outside the US Capitol as President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy addresses a joint meeting of Congress on December 21, 2022, in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
![President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio participate in an arrival ceremony, Monday, May 23, 2022, at Akasaka Palace in Tokyo. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.12.2023%20R.%20Walters%20The%20Hill.jpg?h=eb713e04&itok=SEhkyJAy)
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Prime Minister Fumio Kishida greets President Joe Biden at Akasaka Place in Tokyo, Japan, on May 22, 2022. (The White House via Flickr)
![Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken hosts a joint press availability with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi, and Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 2023. [State Department photo by Freddie Everett/ Public Domain]](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.12.2023%20Murano%20Podcast_0.jpg?h=bf6d952a&itok=gp2bxjB3)
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Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada speaks at the a joint press availability on January 11, 2023, at the US Department of State. (US Department of State via Flickr)
![Ukraine proposes to adopt a resolution condemning energy terror - speech by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the meeting of the UN Security Council convened after the missile strikes of the Russian Federation.](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.11.2023%20Michel%20WSJ.jpg?h=ec07f3fa&itok=1m-G2UlK)
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Volodomyr Zelensky meets virtually with the UN Security Council on November 22, 2022, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (President of Ukraine via Flickr)
![Mead TVO the agenda](/sites/default/files/styles/16_9_sm/public/2023-01/01.11.2023%20Mead%20TVO.png?h=bda1425f&itok=5KQ1voCS)
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(Screenshot via TVO)
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