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)
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin prior to a Japan-US-South Korea defense ministers meeting in Tokyo, Japan, on July 28, 2024. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Gamma-Rapho/Pool/Anadolu via Getty Images)
A member of the Civil Disobedience Movement Wai Yan makes drinks at a restaurant after fleeing from Myanmar to Thailand to avoid conscription by Myanmar's military junta, in Bangkok on June 4, 2024. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images)