Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in support of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026. (US Navy)
A protester raises a placard during a demonstration to condemn China's aggression in the disputed South China Sea in front of the Chinese Consulate in Makati, Metro Manila, on February 6, 2024. (Jam Sta Rosa/AFP and Getty Images)
Former National Security Advisor of the United States H.R. McMaster looks on before being sworn in to testify during the first hearing on national security and Chinese threats to America held by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party in Washington, DC, on February 28, 2023. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Pakistan election commission workers prepare election materials at a distribution center in Karachi on February 6, 2024. (Asif Hassan/AFP via Getty Images)
Wang Yi a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China CPC Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee holds talks with US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Bangkok, Thailand, on January 26, 2024. (Wang Teng/Xinhua via Getty Images)