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)
A police officer wears a protective mask as he stands guard before the opening session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 5, 2021 in Beijing, China (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
A man wearing a face mask walks in front of Tiananmen during the 31st anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests, in Beijing on June 4, 2020 (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
US President Joe Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House, in Washington, DC, on June 2, 2021 (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP)
A researcher works in a lab that is developing testing for the COVID-19 coronavirus at Hackensack Meridian Health Center for Discovery and Innovation on February 28, 2020 in Nutley, New Jersey (Photo by Kena Betancur/Getty Images)
A Chinese man wears a protective mask as he walks in front the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at National Aquatics Centre on April 9, 2021 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)