Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on May 4, 2026. (Getty Images)
A Philippine Air Force Black Hawk helicopter lands on June 29, 2023, on Mavulis Island, which is the Philippines’ northernmost island and is roughly 88 miles from Taiwan. (Getty Images)
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A production line of the Glide, a high-altitude glider that delivers munitions across thousands of miles, is seen at the defense tech startup Mach Industries in Huntington Beach, California, on September 11, 2025. (Getty Images)
Trailers with launchers for guided missiles of a German Patriot air defense system stand on a snow-covered field in southeastern Poland on April 3, 2023. (Getty Images)
Democratic Progressive Party's presidential candidate Lai Ching-te and Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen cheer at the end of the campaign rally on January 11, 2024, in Taipei City, Taiwan. (Annabelle Chih via Getty Images)
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III delivers the keynote address at the 2023 Reagan National Defense Forum at the the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California, on December 2, 2023. (DoD via Flickr)
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)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul participates in a multinational military exercise with NATO allies as part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group on October 5, 2022. (Kerri Kline via DVIDS)
President of Argentina Javier Milei speaks to supporters outside the National Congress after his inauguration ceremony on December 10, 2023, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Photo by Marcelo Endelli/Getty Images)