A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Rushan Abbas holds a photo of her sister, Uyghur doctor Gulshan Abbas, who is detained in China, during the “No Deals Without Freedom” protest at Lafayette Park on May 11, 2026, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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)