A Chinese Coast Guard ship sails near a Philippine vessel that was part of a convoy of civilian boats in the disputed South China Sea on December 10, 2023. (Photo by Ted Aljibe via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden visits a Wolfspeed semiconductor manufacturing facility in Durham, North Carolina, to kick pff the Investing in America Tour on March 28, 2023. (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via 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)