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)
A picture taken during an organised tour by Yemen's Houthi rebels on November 22, 2023, at a port on the Red Sea in Yemen's province of Hodeida. (AFP via Getty Images)
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a meeting that celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative in Kuwait City on December 16, 2019. (Photo by Yasser al-Zayyat/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks via a video during the ceremonial opening of the tenth session of the Conference of the States Parties (CoSP10) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption on December 11, 2023. (United Nations Information Service Vienna via Flickr)
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of the European Council Charles Michel, and President of the Republic of Moldova Maia Sandu during the press conference on November 21, 2023, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (Viktor Kovalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Sikhs protestors for the independence of Khalistan scuffle with police in front of the Indian Consulate in Toronto, Canada, on July 8, 2023. (Geoff Robins/AFP via Getty Images)