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China’s President Xi Jinping walks to the Monument to the People’s Heroes during a wreath-laying ceremony to honor deceased national heroes on Martyrs’ Day in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on September 30, 2025. (Getty Images)

Excavators and transport vehicles work at Dexing Copper Mine on August 16, 2024, in Shangrao, China. (Getty Images)

China’s liquid-fueled intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles DongFeng-5C pass through Tiananmen Square during a military parade on September 3, 2025 in Beijing. (Getty Images)

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A Japan Air Self Defense Force F-15E Strike Eagle performs a demonstration during Air Fest 2025 at Misawa Air Base in Japan on September 21, 2025. (US Air Force)

The TikTok logo displays on a phone with the US flag on a laptop screen in Krakow, Poland, on January 20, 2025. (Getty Images)

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Australia’s Defence Minister Richard Marles and Japan’s Defence Minister General Nakatani hold a joint press announcement aboard the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Mogami-class stealth frigate JS Mikuma at the JMSDF naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, on September 5, 2025. (Getty Images)

People attend a gathering to commemorate the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Beijing on September 3, 2025. (Getty Images)

An aerial view a solar facility in Ad-Dhahirah, Oman, on April 12, 2023. (Getty Images)

Two US Air Force F-35A Lightning IIs fly in formation prior to conducting air-to-air refueling over Utah on July 1, 2025. (US Air Force photo)

US President Donald Trump greets South Korean President Lee Jae Myung as he arrives at the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, DC, on August 25, 2025. (Saul loab via Getty Images)