Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
A Blue Water Logistic Unmanned Areal System on the flight deck of the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent while the ship was underway in the Atlantic Ocean on June 10, 2023. (John Bruening via DVIDS)
Janet Yellen with He Lifeng during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on July 8, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Mark Schiefelbein via Getty Images)
The Russian national flag fluters in front of the Great Hall of the People before a welcoming ceremony for Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in Beijing on May 24, 2023. (Thomas Peter/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh fires a standard missile during a live-fire exercise in the Philippine Sea on January 23, 2023. (Santiago Navarro via DVIDS)
Abdul Ghani Baradar and Wang Yu attend a press conference to announce an oil extraction contract with a Chinese company in Kabul on January 5, 2023. (Ahmad Sahel Arman via Getty Images)
A worker produces high-voltage silicon stack devices at a semiconductor manufacturing enterprise in Shandong, China, on July 17, 2023. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)