Mingri “Ezra” Jin, head pastor of Zion Church, is seen on September 12, 2018, in Beijing, days after authorities shut down one of China’s largest “underground” Protestant churches. (Getty Images)
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)
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)
Aerial view of containers sitting stacked on a cargo ship berthed at Nansha Port on April 12, 2020, in Guangzhou, China. (He Weiming/VCG via Getty Images)
Children carry water pots as they wade through a flooded street at Sohbatpur in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan province on October 4, 2022. (Photo by FIDA HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images)
Vladimir Putin and Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev during the Russian-Uzbek signing ceremony at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit on September 15, 2022, in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. (Contributor/Getty Images)
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong attends a meeting with China's President Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 20, 2017. (Lintao Zhanf/AFP via Getty Images)