An electronics shop employee in Hong Kong on October 18, 2017, looks at television sets showing a news report on China's President Xi Jinping's speech at the opening session of the Chinese Communist Party's five-yearly Congress. (Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images)
A Royal Australian Air Force F-35A Lightning II conducts a flypast over HMAS Sydney during Exercise Tasman Shield on March 28, 2023. (Photo via Australian Government Defense)
Sailors assigned to the Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Asheville salute the national ensign after arriving at Royal Australian Navy HMAS Stirling Naval Base on February 27, 2023. (Australia Department of Defence)
The Virginia-class, fast-attack submarine USS Indiana transits the Thames River as it arrives in Groton, Connecticut, on October 29, 2018. (US Navy photo by Steven Hoskins)
The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Mississippi moors at Stirling Naval Base in Western Australia on November 28, 2022. (US Marine Corps photo by John Hall)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne at the US Department of State, in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2021. (State Department photo by Ron Przysucha)
American and Australian C-17 Globemasters take part in an aerial maneuver training mission in Honolulu, Hawaii, on May 4, 2022. (US Airforce photo by Makensie Cooper)
Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Penny Wong attends a meeting with other QUAD leaders on September 23, 2022. (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia)