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A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
Relatives of abducted girls after the releasing 82 of school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok back in 2014, at Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
From left to right, Rabbi David Saperstein, former Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom under President Obama, Pak Yaha, Gen. Sec. of Nahdlatul Ulama, Imam Talib, Bishop Dr. Thomas Schirrmacher and Hudson Senior Fellow Paul Marshall
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Chinese paramilitary police guard the outside of the Grand Bazaar in the Uighur area in the city of Urumqi in China's Xinjiang region on July 12, 2009 (PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images)
Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in Beijing (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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Released students gather at the Government House with other students from the Government Science Secondary school, in Kankara, in northwestern Katsina State, Nigeria upon their release on December 18, 2020 (Photo by KOLA SULAIMON/AFP via Getty Images)
A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he walks in front the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at National Aquatics Centre on April 9, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)