Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
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)
Chinese military helicopters fly past Pingtan Island, one of mainland China's closest points to Taiwan, in Fujian province on August 4, 2022. (Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images)
Finnish, NATO, and US flags during a NATO foreign ministers' meeting at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels on April 4, 2023. (Johanna Geron/AFP via Getty Images)
A US Navy boatswain’s mate launches a US Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II aircraft off the amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli in the Pacific Ocean on June 13, 2022. (US Marine Corps photo by Jackson Ricker)
US and Ukraine flags fly at the Joint Force Headquarters in Sacramento, California, on February 22, 2023. (US Army National Guard photo by Amanda H. Johnson)
A Lithuanian Mi-8 helicopter participating in the NATO Iron Wolf military exercises on October 26, 2022, in Pabrade, Lithuania. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
President Tsai Ing-wen receives Hudson's Global Leadership award from President and CEO John P. Walters and Sarah Stern, chair of the Hudson Board of Trustees, on March 30, 2023, in New York. (Taiwan Presidential Office via Flickr)