Indo-Pacific

Police officers on horseback with national flags patrol the border in Xinjiang province, China, on December 29, 2023. (Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, speaks during the 2024 Munich Security Conference on February 17, 2024, in Munich, Germany. (Johannes Simon via Getty Images)

A worker leaves US Steel Edgar Thomson Steel Works, March 10, 2018, in Braddock, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

The TikTok app on a phone surrounded by American social media apps. (Michael M. Santiago via Getty Images)

The water level of the Yangtze River and Jialing River in Chongqing, China, on August 17, 2022. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The TikTok logo on phone screen in Brussels, Belgium, on March 21, 2023. (Photo Illustration by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) sail in formation in the Philippine Sea on June 9, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Ryre Arciaga)

The TikTok logo with a sketch of TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew. (Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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John P. Walters and Taiwanese President-elect William Lai in Taipei, Taiwan.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese speaks during the 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne, Australia, on March 6, 2024. (Photo by George Chan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)