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)
The first of two Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptors is launched during a successful intercept test on September 10, 2013. (Missile Defense Agency photo)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov welcomes the Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui at the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow, Russia, on May 26, 2023. (Photo by Russian Foreign Ministry/Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)