In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Vladimir Putin enters a hall to meet with graduates of higher military educational institutions at the Kremlin on June 23, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov via Getty Images)
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
President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pose for a picture with European leaders following a meeting at the White House on August 18, 2025. (Win McNamee via Getty Images)
A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)
Tonga's King Tupou VI (C) reviews a military honour guard with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 1, 2018. (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)
Benjamin Franklin container ship being loaded at the Xiamen Songyu Container Terminal at night in Xiamen, China, on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016.(Qilai Shen/Getty Images)
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.S. President Donald Trump speak together on the first day of the G7 Summit, on June 8, 2018 in La Malbaie, Canada. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump and Masayoshi Son, founder and chief executive officer of SoftBank, participate in a groundbreaking ceremony for the $10 billion Foxconn factory complex on June 28, 2018 in Mt. Pleasant, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/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.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks at U.S. President Donald Trump at a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House June 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Trump, pictured in trade talks on Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires with Chinese President Xi Jinping (far left), this week dangled the possibility that an arrested Huawei executive could become a bargaining chip. PHOTO: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS