Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
Chinese Catholic worshippers wait to take communion at the Palm Sunday Mass during the Easter Holy Week at an "underground" or "unofficial" church on April 9, 2017 near Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the State Dining Room of the White House on May 5, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
China's President Xi Jinping applauds after voting during a session during the closing session of the National People's Congress (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images).
Chinese President Xi Jinping takes part in a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 2, 2019. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Workers attend the ceremony for the Opening of 'Belt and Road' RCEP Line, including EMC Southeast Asia Line, WHL/IAL Vietnam Line and WHL/IAL/ZIM/KMTC India Line, at Qingdao Port on January 19, 2021 in Qingdao, Shandong Province of China. (Photo by Zhang
US President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meets virtually with members of the "Quad" alliance of Australia, India, Japan and the US, in the White House on March 12, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP/Getty Images)
Yoshihide Suga, Japan's prime minister, speaks during a news conference at the prime minister's official residence on January 07, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan (Photo by Pool/Getty Images)
The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group transits in formation Jan. 25, 2020 (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anthony Rivera)