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israel-gaza conflict aei’s foreign and defense policy scholars are providing real-time analyses of the war’s trajectory, america’s evolving role in the middle east, and the dynamics of middle eastern stability in the shadow of a growingly hostile iran. a new china playbook the chinese communist party (ccp) has spun a narrative that china is destined […]

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