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)
Semiconductor chips are printed onto silicon wafers and loaded into containers in the clean room at GlobalFoundries Fab 8 in Malta, New York, on June 10, 2021. (Cindy Schultz via Getty Images)
The ChatGPT AI app icon appears alongside other AI chatbot applications in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on February 8, 2025. (Jonathan Raa via Getty Images)
President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance sit in the Situation Room at the White House on June 21, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Daniel Torok via Getty Images)
Maxar satellite imagery from June 22, 2025, shows extensive building damage across the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center following recent airstrikes. Multiple rooftops appear collapsed or charred in today's post-strike image. (Maxar Technologies satellite image via Getty Images)
An operational timeline of a strike on Iran is displayed during a news conference with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen Dan Caine. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
The opening meeting of the third session of the Fourteenth National People’s Congress is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 5, 2025. (Ding Haitao via Getty Images)