Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
A microchip and Taiwanese flag displayed on a phone screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo on April 10, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki via Getty Images)
The Virginia-class attack submarine Minnesota is under construction at Huntington Ingalls Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. (US Navy photo courtesy of Newport News Shipbuilding)
Royal Australian Navy sailors perform maintenance on a remotely operated vehicle during the Australia, UK, and US (AUKUS) Pillar II Subsea and Seabed Warfare Event Two / Integrated Battle Problem 25.1 on December 6, 2024, in the Atlantic Ocean. (US Navy photo)
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk speak to the press as they sit in a Tesla vehicle on March 11, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
Donald Trump speaks at NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building after the launch of a SpaceX spaceship to the International Space Station on May 30, 2020. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
The Dilution refrigerator is seen inside Amazon's quantum networking lab in Brighton, Massachusetts, on June 28, 2024. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)