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)
Ukrainian servicemen fire a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher toward Russian positions near Bakhmut, Ukraine, on June 13, 2023. (Anatolii Stepanov/AFP via Getty Images)
A Ukrainian soldier with rifle walks in a residential district damaged by shelling on May 31, 2023, in Chasiv Yar, Ukraine. (Yan Dobronosov via Getty Images)
A destroyed building of a medical facility, the site of a Russian missile strike that killed at least two people, in Dnipro, Ukraine, on May 26, 2023. (Vitalii Matokha/AFP via Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin, Ilham Aliyev, and Nikol Pashinyan attend a tripartite meeting at the Grand Kremlin Palace on May 25, 2023, in Moscow, Russia. (Contributor via Getty Images)
A war plane belonging to the Ukrainian Air Force conducts operation flight to target trenches of Russian forces through the Donetsk, Ukraine, on May 9, 2023. (Muhammed Enes Yildirim/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky joins G7 world leaders on the final day of the G7 Summit on May 21, 2023, in Hiroshima, Japan. (Stefan Rousseau/WPA Pool via Getty Images)