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)
Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Christopher Wray announces new criminal charges against Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei at the Department of Justice on January 28, 2019 in Washington, DC.
President Donald Trump debates with then House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer as Vice President Mike Pence listens during a meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/Getty Images)
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given the death penalty by a Chinese court on Monday. He had appealed a 15-year prison sentence for drug smuggling. (Intermediate Peoples’ Court of Dalian/GETTY IMAGES)
A man holts the latest issue of German newsweekly Der Spiegel with a cover page that reads: 'To say, what is' at a kiosk on December 22, 2018 in Cologne, Germany. (Photo by Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images)
Central American migrants taking part in a caravan to the U.S., are pictured on board a truck heading to Irapuato in the state of Guanajuato on November 11, 2018 after spending the night in Queretaro in central Mexico. (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP/Getty Images)