Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (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)
A worker inspects the form of the shaped steel billets following the press stage in the manufacturing process of 155mm caliber shells at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant in Pennsylvania on April 16, 2024. (Getty Images)
American flags and United States Capitol building are seen in Washington D.C., United States on December 28, 2022. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
An Orthodox priest collects religious objects as others clear up glass and debris inside the Holy Intercession Cathedral damaged after missile strikes, in Zaporizhzhia on October 18, 2023. (Andriy Andriyenko/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers open fire from a large-caliber machine gun to suppress enemy shelling on November 3, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev pose for a group photo with other leaders at the Third Belt and Road Forum on October 18, 2023, in Beijing, China. (Suo Takekuma/Pool via Getty Images)
The flags of Russia, China, and North Korea on a viewing tower on the border between the three countries in Hunchun, China, on June 25, 2015. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky participate in a bilateral meeting in the East Room of the White House September 21, 2023. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
Ukrainian soldiers fire RPGs at enemy positions as the special military unit "Kurt & Company group" hold the first line of the front line on November 3, 2023, in Bakhmut District, Ukraine. (Kostya Liberov/Libkos via Getty Images)
Turkish Minister Osman Askin Bak with his Azerbaijani counterpart Farid Gayibov and Secretary General of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS Kubanychbek Omuraliev during the Seventh Working Group Meeting of the OTS in Basgal, Azerbaijan, on November 9, 2023. (Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu via Getty Images)