Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (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)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects the honor guard of the three services and watches the march-past at the Moscow Vnukovo Airport in Moscow, Russia, on March 20, 2023. (Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese before the start of a state dinner at the White House on October 25, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Tasos Katopodis via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with State Councilor and Foreign Minister of China Qin Gang in Beijing, China, on June 19, 2023. (Foreign Ministry of China/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with China's Director of the Office of the Central Foreign Affairs Commission Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on June 19, 2023. (Department of State via Flickr)
President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shake hands at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego, California, on March, 13, 2023. (Photo by Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
People line up to visit huge portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on the 78th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang on October 10, 2023. (Kim Won Jin/AFP via Getty Images)