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)
Female members of the Ukrainian Army's 128th Carpathian Mountain Assault Brigade prepare to take part on the frontline in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on July 15, 2023. (Ercin Erturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan gives a press conference during the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian artilleryman carries a 155 mm shell to fire a M777 howitzer toward Russian positions near Avdiivka in the Donetsk region on June 23, 2023. (Genya Savilov/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council during the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, 2023. (Paul Ellis/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)
A Lithuanian soldier stands next to a public bus with a mural on it urging the arming of Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets on the first day of the 2023 NATO Summit on July 11, 2023, in Vilnius, Lithuania. (Sean Gallup via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers use an armored engineer vehicle based on a Leopard tank chassis to pull their comrades car from a ditch on May 11, 2023. (Serhii Mykhalchuk/Global Images Ukraine via Getty Images)
Ukrainian servicemen move with a Howitzer through Vuhledar frontline amid Russia-Ukraine war in Donetsk, Ukraine, on July 1, 2023. (Ercin Erturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)