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Commuters drive past a billboard bearing pictures of Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Bagheri, and Benjamin Netanyahu in Tehran on October 27, 2024. (Atta Kenare via Getty Images)
China
China
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Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, hears a report on the scientific research on COVID-19, March 2, 2020. (Getty Images)
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang speaks during the daily press briefing in Beijing on March 18, 2020. (GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping chairs a teleconference after the field inspection of Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic, on March 10, 2020. (Ju Peng/Xinhua via Getty)
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A large screen in the street shows Chinese president Xi Jinping wearing a protective mask during his visit to Wuhan earlier in the day, the epicentre of the coronavirus, on CCTV's evening newscast on March 10, 2020 in Beijing, China.
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A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he walks by a health banner related to the coronavirus outbreak at a local market on March 4, 2020 in Beijing, China. (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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Experts
Alexander Aibel
Research Associate
Alexander Benard
Adjunct Fellow
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Olivia Enos
Senior Fellow
