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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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)
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Leah Millis/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Rep. Rosa DeLauro arrives for the House Appropriations Committee markup of "Fiscal Year 2024 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Bill and Interim Suballocation of Budget Allocations" in Rayburn Building on June 14, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Members of the Wagner Group prepare to depart from the Southern Military District's headquarters and return to their base on June 24, 2023, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Members of the Wagner Group prepare to depart from the Southern Military District's headquarters and return to their base on June 24, 2023, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. (Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A screen grab captured from a video shows Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin making a speech in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, on June 24, 2023. (Wagner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Visitors walk past China's second nuclear missile on display as they visit the Military Museum in Beijing, on July 23, 2007. (Teh Eng Koon/AFP via Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko during the Supreme Economic Eurasian Council at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Getty Images)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stands in front of a Puma infantry fighting vehicle of the Bundeswehr while visiting the Bundeswehr army training center in Ostenholz on October 17, 2022, near Hodenhagen, Germany. (David Hecker via Getty Images)