A view at the beginning point of the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) on May 9, 2025, at Pump Station 1 in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. (Lance King via Getty Images)
Workers check the operation of carbon fiber production line at Zhongfu Shenying Carbon Fiber Co., on October 14, 2025, in Xining, China. (Getty Images)
Members of China's thirteenth Arctic Ocean scientific expedition team conduct a sampling operation aboard China's polar icebreaker Xuelong 2 on August 6, 2023. (Wei Hongyi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15, 2022. (James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)