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American naval personnel provide security aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry during a Strait of Hormuz transit.
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- Protests in Hong Kong have sometimes seen as many as one million citizens take to the streets.
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- Hong Kong’s protests against mainland China resonates with some of the 24 million residents of Taiwan, which Beijing considers a runaway province.
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- American naval personnel provide security aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry during a Strait of Hormuz transit.
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- American naval personnel provide security aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry during a Strait of Hormuz transit. (Photo: 3 U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Jason Monty )
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- The battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir dates back to 1947, with flare-ups in 1965 and 1999 and again in 2019. (Photo: Jrapczak)
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- Chinese bombers have conducted drills on Woody Island in the Paracel Islands, where Chinese interests clash with Vietnamese and Taiwanese interests. (Photo: Paul Spijkers)
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- A Taiwanese Coast Guard vessel and a Japanese Coast Guard vessel patrol the waters around the disputed Senkaku Islands, as the Japanese call them, or Diaoyu Islands, as the Chinese call them. Japan, China and Taiwan all claim ownership of the uninhabited islands. (Photo: Keelung Coast Guard)
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- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in 2019 to discuss the future of Syria. (Photo: Press Service of the President of Russia)
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- Soldiers without insignia patrol Crimea following Russia’s illegal annexation of the territory in March 2014. The dispute, now in its fifth year, continues. (Photo: © Andreykr | Dreamstime.com)
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- South Ossetia, shown here, and Abkhazia, are officially part of Georgia, but effectively under Russian control. (Photo: Yana Amelina)
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- North and South Korea have exchanged fire at the Northern Limit Line in the past and it looms large in the public consciousness of both countries. (Photo: Republic of Korea armed forces)
