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Aerial view of containers sitting stacked on a cargo ship berthed at Nansha Port on April 12, 2020, in Guangzhou, China. (He Weiming/VCG via Getty Images)

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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang holds a welcoming ceremony for Solomon Islands' Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare ahead of their talks at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, October 9, 2019. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei via Getty Images)

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Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) leaders' summit in Samarkand on September 15, 2022. (Alexandr Demyanchuk/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

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The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group steams together in the Pacific in June 2017. (US Navy/MC2 Sean M. Castellano)

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Demonstrators gathering around a burning barricade during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran on September 19, 2022. (AFP via Getty Images)