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China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People on April 21, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with President Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Council of Heads of State in Qingdao, China, on June 10, 2018. (Sergei Guneyev via Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump looks on as Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 7, 2025. (Jim Watson via Getty Images)
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Chinese President Xi Jinping waves during a meeting with Vietnam’s Communist Party General Secretary To Lam at the Office of the Party Central Committee in Hanoi on April 14, 2025. (Nhac Nguyen via Getty Images)
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Wild peach and apricot flowers are in full bloom in Yanqing District, encircling the Longquanyu Great Wall on March 25, 2025, in Beijing. (Hao Jihong via Getty Images)
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From a balcony in the Ministry of Health Building in London, Prime Minister Winston Churchill addresses a huge crowd on May 8. 1945 (Victory in Europe Day). (Getty Images)
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Members of a military music band march during a rally in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on November 7, 2021, in support of the national defense forces. (Eduardo Soteras via Getty Images)
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German Chancellor Fredrich Merz during his meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw, Poland, on May 7, 2025. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
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Taiwanese soldiers of the 58th Artillery Command mobilize a HIMARS missile system to a tactical position as part of the ongoing Han Kuang military exercise in Taichung, Taiwan, on July 12, 2025. (Daniel Ceng via Getty Images)
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A Tenth Special Forces Group (Airborne) Green Beret provides security on the drop zone after performing freefall operations during a training exercise on March 31, 2023, near Fairbanks, Alaska. (US Army photo by Sgt. Luis M. Solorio)
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