In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman shakes hands with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi on June 13, 2022. (Luong Thai Linh/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, the world's most valuable semiconductor company, on September 16, 2022, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih/Getty Images)
People walk past a screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Museum of the Communist Party of China in Beijing on September 4, 2022. (Photo by Noel Celis/AFP via Getty Images)
Xi Jinping attends the 22nd meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization leaders' summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on September 16, 2022. (Shanghai Cooperation Organization/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)