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)
Members of the Chinese military orchestra march on Tiananmen Square before a celebration marking the 100th founding anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party on July 1, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
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Senior Visiting Associate, Institute for Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London
Alison Pargeter
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December 11, 2019 Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Getty Images)
Director, Centre for African Conflict and Development
Michael Nwankpa
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U.S. flags flutter in the wind at the Mall before the Inauguration of U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden in Washington, DC on January 20, 2021 (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)