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)
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press in the newly inaugurated Cathedral of the Nativity Christ, in Egypt's New Administrative Capital, on January 10, 2019. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP/Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks at U.S. President Donald Trump at a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House June 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro delivers a speech during the appointment ceremony of the new heads of public banks, at Planalto Palace in Brasilia on January 7, 2019. (EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images)
Former Senior Fellow and Director for Chinese Strategy
Michael Pillsbury
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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the US military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, December 26, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
A man holts the latest issue of German newsweekly Der Spiegel with a cover page that reads: 'To say, what is' at a kiosk on December 22, 2018 in Cologne, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)