Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on June 29, 2021. (Photo by Xie Huanchi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles are reviewed in a military parade celebrating the 70th founding anniversary of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Liu Bin via Getty Images)
Ablikim and Ayshem Turkel hold Nury Turkel in 1971, shortly after Nury and his mother were released from a Chinese "reeducation camp." (Courtesy of Nury Turkel)
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Xi Jinping inside the Great Hall of the People on December 4, 2013 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Xi Jinping waves as he attends the art performance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Founding of the Communist Party of China on June 28, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)
Demonstrators protest China’s genocidal campaign against the Uyghur people outside the Chinese Embassy in London, England, on January 19, 2020. (David Cliff/NurPhoto via Getty Images)