Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
The main gun of Chinese guided-missile destroyer Nanchang attacks a target during a China-Russia military drill on October 15, 2021, in Russian waters. (Sun Zifa/China News Service via Getty Images)
Armed Taliban security personnel sit atop an armored vehicle as they ride along a street in Khash district, Badakhshan province, on September 1, 2024. (Omer Abrar/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian emergency service workers extinguish a fire after a Russian bombing in the town of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine, on September 4, 2024. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images)