Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
The orthodox Jewish Chabad Lubavistch Foundation holds a solidarity collection for people in need before Passover on April 21, 2024, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Guido Piotrkowski via Getty)
Somewhere in North Vietnam- US Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Allen Stratton waters vegetables in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp on Christmas Day, 1968. (Bettmann via Getty Images)
A view of the Presidential Palace and the Prince Jozef Poniatowski Monument in Warsaw, Poland, on October 23, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
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Georgian opposition supporters protest results of the parliamentary elections in central Tbilisi, Georgia, on October 28, 2024. (Vano Shlamov/AFP via Getty Images)
John Trumbull's painting, circa 1754, of the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. (Universal History Archive via Getty Images)