Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping enter the hall during a signing ceremony on May 20, 2026, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
Supporters of the Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) chant slogans and wave flags at a rally celebrating the end of the US military presence in Iraq on September 30, 2026, in Baghdad, Iraq. (Getty Images)
Presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro for the Partido Liberal speaks to the press after the votes are tallied on election day on October 4, 2026, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Getty Images)
Diplomatic envoys of ASEAN countries to China watch an intelligent robot during a visit to the China-ASEAN AI Application Center on July 22, 2026, in Nanning, China. (Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi holds a news conference in New York after she addressed the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, in New York City, US (Getty Images)
Migrants storm a barbed-wire fence as they attempt to cross the land border with Spain's African enclave of Ceuta near Fnideq in northern Morocco on September 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA's Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on August 12, 2018. (NASA via Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
Executive Director, Alliance of Democracies Foundation
Jonas Parello-Plesner
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A crowd of refugees carry their belongings May 3, 1994 at the border of Rwanda and Tanzania. Hutu refugees have fled to Tanzania border across the Akagara River in order to escape reprisals by Tutsi rebels. (Scott Peterson/Liaison)
Aircraft of the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) fly in the sky during a drill on the second flight training day of the New Year at Liaodong Peninsula on January 3, 2019 in Liaoning Province of China. (VCG via Getty Images)