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)
Former Senior Fellow and Vice President, Development
Brian Blake
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A Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block 1B interceptor is launched from the USS LAKE ERIE (CG 70) during a Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy test in the mid-Pacific, May 16, 2013. (U.S. Missile Defense Agency)
A Kurdish refugee mother and son from the Syrian town of Kobani walk beside their tent in a camp on the Turkish-Syrian border on October 19, 2014 in Sanliurfa, Turkey. (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)
A man passes by electric screen showing Chinese shares decrease sharply to a halt point on January 7, 2016 in Shanghai, China. (ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images)
Fox and Friends host Steve Doocy (L) interviews Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy Michael Botticelli on March 10, 2016. (Fox and Friends/Screenshot)