Iran Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Defense Ministers' Meeting on June 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. (Fu Tian via Getty Images)
Vehicles waiting to be loaded onto roll-on/roll-off (ro-ro) ships for export on August 12, 2025, in Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province of China. (Getty Images)
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)
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)
A police officer gestures in front of a propaganda billboard urging "the maintenance of rule of law in Xinjiang" in both Chinese and Uyghur languages in China's northwestern Xinjiang region on July 19, 2023. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images)
United States President Donald Trump takes part in a welcoming ceremony with Chinese President Xi Jinping on November 9, 2017, in Beijing, China. (Thomas Peter via Getty Images)
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi in Beijing, China, on December 28, 2024. (Pang Xinglei/Xinhua via Getty Images)
An uncrewed surface vessel, attached to US Naval Forces Central Command’s Task Force 59, participates in exercise Digital Talon 3.0
on November 5, 2024. (US Army)