An Air Force Global Strike Command unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile launches during an operation test on February 23, 2021, at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (US Space Force)
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania Oana-SilviaȚoiu speaks during a joint press conference with the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine on August 7, 2025, in Kyiv, Ukraine. (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)
President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, President of China Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pose for a BRICS family photo during the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Centre in Johannesburg on August 23, 2023. (GovernmentZA via Flickr)
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, US President Joe Biden, and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida hold a joint news conference following trilateral talks on August 18, 2023, in Camp David, Maryland. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden, Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol greet each other ahead of a trilateral meeting during the G7 leaders' summit in Hiroshima on May 21, 2023. (Brendan Smiakiwski/AFP via Getty Images)
US President Joe Baden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pose prior to the US-South Korea-Japan trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit on May 21, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan. (Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)