An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Oana-SilviaȚoiu speaks during a joint press conference with the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine on August 7, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Getty Images)
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)
President Donald J. Trump speaks during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
An F-16 fighter pulls up in a steep climb during rehearsals for a public airshow at the military airbase in Taitung on July 9, 2018. (CHRIS STOWERS/AFP/Getty Images)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is pictured during the meeting with Li Keqiang (not pictured), Prime Minister of China, on July 09, 2018 in Berlin, Germany. (Florian Gaertner/Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) gestures next to German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) following their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris on March 26, 2019. (LUDOVIC MARIN/Getty Images)
Tonga's King Tupou VI (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 1, 2018. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)