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)
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden looks through binoculars toward North Korea during a visits to observation post Ouellette at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) on December 7, 2013 in Panmunjom, South Korea (Photo by Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
Chinese Catholic worshippers wait to take communion at the Palm Sunday Mass during the Easter Holy Week at an "underground" or "unofficial" church on April 9, 2017 near Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House on May 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga walk through the Colonnade to take part in a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
China's President Xi Jinping applauds after voting during a session during the closing session of the National People's Congress (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images).
US President Joe Biden and Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga walk through the Colonnade to take part in a joint press conference in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on April 16, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping takes part in a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 2, 2019. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Workers attend the ceremony for the Opening of 'Belt and Road' RCEP Line, including EMC Southeast Asia Line, WHL/IAL Vietnam Line and WHL/IAL/ZIM/KMTC India Line, at Qingdao Port on January 19, 2021 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Zhang
U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan hold a news conference in the Rose Garden of the White House on April 16, 2021 in Washington, DC (Photo by Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)