Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner before their talks in Moscow on September 5, 2026. (Getty Images)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance fires a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile in support of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, 2026. (US Navy)
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)
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with China's President Xi Jinping during a virtual summit from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, November 15, 2021. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47) transits to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014 exercise. (U.S. Navy)
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles are reviewed in a military parade celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Bin via Getty Images)
Ablikim and Ayshem Turkel hold Nury Turkel in 1971, shortly after Nury and his mother were released from a Chinese "reeducation camp." (Courtesy of Nury Turkel)