A MIM-104 Patriot Surface-to-Air Missile System fires as part of a bilateral live-fire exercise with military members from the Royal Netherlands Ground-based Air Defense Command at McGregor Range in New Mexico on May 11, 2024. (US Army)
A Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Uzushio-class submarine participates in an international fleet review at Sagami Bay on November 6, 2022, off Yokosuka, Japan. (Getty Images)
A worker at a construction site of a new bridge project on June 20, 2009 in Guiyang of Guizhou Province, China. (Photo by Wu Dongjun/Visual China Group via Getty Images)
South Korea's President Moon Jae-in speaks during the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 at SECC on November 1, 2021 in Glasgow, United Kingdom. (Photo by Yves Herman - WPA Pool/Getty Images)
World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters on November 27, 2021 in Geneva ahead of next week's WTO ministerial conference. (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)
Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala arrives for the welcome ceremony on the first day of the Rome G20 summit, on October 30, 2021 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives a speech on U.S. Africa Policy at the Economic Community of West African States in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 19, 2021. (Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting on November 13, 2019 in Brasilia, Brazil. (Photo by Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)