Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
A man holds up a sign demanding that soldiers from the United States Army leave Niger without negotiation during a demonstration in Niamey, Niger, on April 13, 2024. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)
FARDC (Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo) soldiers escort civilian vehicles transporting goods from Beni toward Komanda on March 19, 2022. (Photo by Sebastien Kitsa Musayi/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa attend the 2018 China-Africa Cooperation Summit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 4, 2018. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Citizens walk past a decorative installation for the third Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation on October 14, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
Rwandan Counter-Terrorism Special Units and Mozambique police patrol streets in the town of Palma as Rwanda provided military assistance after the militant group Ansar al-Sunna seized critical locations in the region rich in natural gas and valuable metals, in Palma, Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique on December 18, 2023. (Cyrile Ndegeya/Anadolu via Getty Images)
South Sudanese military police officers monitor the area during a South Sudanese Unified Forces deployment ceremony at the Luri Military Training Centre in Juba on November 15, 2023. (Peter Louis Gume/AFP via Getty Images)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during a meeting of African leaders with Russian President at the Konstantin Palace in Strelna on June 17, 2023 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
Leadership from Camp Lemonnier and Combined Task Force-Horn of Africa attend a graduation ceremony and skills demonstration for the Somalian Police Force at the Djibouti Police Academy on April 9, 2019. (Joe Rullo via DVIDS)