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)
A Ukrainian man stands in the rubble in Zhytomyr on March 02, 2022, following a Russian bombing the day before. (Photo by Emmanuel Duparcq/AFP via Getty Images)
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Chinese soldiers during the rehearsal of the military parade to celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Photo by the Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)