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)
People pay their condolences to former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe at the Japan-Taiwan Exchange Association office in Taipei on July 11, 2022. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks at the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. (Cabinet Public Affairs Office, Japan, https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/98_abe/actions/201906/28g20.html)
A destroyed tank of the Russian army is seen at Kukhari, Kyiv Oblast, on July 9, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds a press conference after the EU Leaders Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on June 24, 2022. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on September 24, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)