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)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken holds a joint press availability with Republic of Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin at the Department of State in Washington, DC, on February 3, 2023, hours after cancelling his state visit to China in light of the surveillance balloon controversy. (State Department photo by Ronny Przysucha)
A US Coast Guard helicopter flies over a debris field during recovery efforts of a high-altitude surveillance balloon on February 4, 2023, in the Atlantic Ocean. (US Navy photo by Jerry Ireland)
Soldiers take part in the opening ceremony of "Dragon Gold 2020" Cambodia-China joint military drill on March 15, 2020, in Kampot, Cambodia. (Huang Yaohui/China News Service via Getty Images)
The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Tulsa approaches the dry cargo ship USNS Amelia Earhart for a replenishment in the South China Sea on February 19, 2022. (US Navy photo by Devin M. Langer)