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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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)
Airmen from the 1st Air Support Operations Group utilize data links as part of Exercise Chaos Quate at Moody Air Force Base on March 15, 2022. (US Air Force photo by 1st Lt Katie Tamesis)
A Ukrainian soldier stands in front of railroad station destroyed by Russian shelling on March 15, 2024, in Kostiantynivka, Ukraine. (Photo by Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Dr. Claudine Gay, president of Harvard University, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee on December 5, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
The logo of Nippon Steel Corporation at the company's Kyushu manufacturing base on February 16, 2024, in Kitakyushu, Japan. (Philip Fong via Getty Images)
The LNG tanker Maria Energy is moored alongside the Floating Storage and Regasification Unit vessel Hoegh Esperanza at the Uniper LNG terminal at the Jade estuary in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on January 4, 2023. (Focke Strangmann via 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)
Uncrewed aerial vehicles equipped with specialized software and sensors fly during the Technical Concept Experiment 23.2 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California on January 19, 2024. (US Navy photo by Michael Walls)
President Joe Biden greets President Xi Jinping before a meeting in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)