Bucket-wheel excavators mine rare earth materials on Ukrainian soil on February 25, 2025, in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. (Kostiantyn Liberov via Getty Images)
The guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald fires the first Naval Strike Missile from a US destroyer on July 18, 2024, in the Pacific Ocean. (US Navy photo)
Fast-attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) enters Dry Dock 1 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility, Hawaii, on September 4, 2024. (US Navy photo by Justice Vannatta)
A South Korean Army K1E1 tank crosses a pontoon bridge on the Imjin River during a joint river- crossing exercise as part of the Freedom Shield military drills with US and ROK forces in the border town of Yeoncheon, South Korea, on March 20, 2025. (Getty Images)
A man walks past China's and America's flags before a meeting between United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and China's Vice Premier He Lifeng in Guangzhou, China, on April 5, 2024. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Prime Minister of Solomon Islands Jeremiah Manele lays a wreath at the Monument to the People's Heroes on the Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on July 11, 2024. (Li Xiang/Xinhua via Getty Images)
US Vice President Kamala Harris celebrates with her family after accepting the Democratic presidential nomination on August 22, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. (Kevin Dietsch via Getty Images)
President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Vietnamese president, prior to their talks in Beijing, China, on August 19, 2024. (Yao Dawei/Xinhua via Getty Images)