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)
Markazi Jamiat Ahle Hadees Pakistan activists protest in Lahore after Iran launched an airstrike in Pakistan's south-west Baluchistan province on January 19, 2024. (Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on January 17, 2024. (Photo by Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City on January 12, 2024. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers patrol with a Bradley Fighting vehicle as the Russia-Ukraine war continues in Avdiivka Donbas, Ukraine, on December 4, 2023. (Marek M. Berezowski/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers fire "Mini Grad" multi-barrel rocket launchers at Russian positions in the direction of Kupiansk in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on January 7, 2024. (Ozge Elif Kizil/Anadolu via Getty Images)