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)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne at the US Department of State, in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2021. (State Department photo by Ron Przysucha)
American and Australian C-17 Globemasters take part in an aerial maneuver training mission in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 4, 2022. (US Airforce photo by Makensie Cooper)
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong attends a meeting with other QUAD leaders on September 23, 2022. (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping, at the G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15, 2022. (James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
Joe Biden welcomes Xi Jinping for his first visit to the United States at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, DC, on September 24, 2015. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen via Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida attends a news conference following the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) leaders meeting at the prime minister’s official residence in Tokyo on May 24, 2022. (Photo by Kiyoshi Ota / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)