Taiwan

President-elect Lai Ching-te delivers a speech in Taipei, Taiwan, on January 13, 2024. (Alex Chan Tsz Yuk via Getty Images)

Container ship YM Unanimity seen docked at its home port in Keelung, Taiwan, on October 16, 2016. (Craig Ferguson/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A CH-47 Chinook helicopter carries a Taiwan flag during National Day celebrations in Taipei on October 10, 2021. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)

Supporters of Taiwan's Vice President and president-elect from the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) Lai Ching-te wait for him to speak at the party's headquarters on January 13, 2024, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Annice Lyn via Getty Images)

Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang (KMT) presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City on January 12, 2024. (Alastair Pike/AFP via Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin greets North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un before a meeting April 25, 2019, in Vladivostok, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov via Getty Images)

Aviation Boatswain's Mate observes an F/A-18E Super Hornet attached to the "Tomcatters" of Strike Fighter Squadron landing on the flight deck of the world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea on October 13, 2023. (Jacob Mattingly via DVIDS)

Taiwan’s first locally built submarine Narwhal at the CSBC Corporation shipbuilding company in Kaohsiung on September 28, 2023. (Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images)