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)
Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given the death penalty by a Chinese court on Monday. He had appealed a 15-year prison sentence for drug smuggling. (Intermediate Peoples’ Court of Dalian/GETTY IMAGES)
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un walks with U.S. President Donald Trump during a break in talks at their historic US-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
China launches Chang'e-4 lunar probe in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Dec. 8, 2018. (Xinhua/Jiang Hongjing via Getty Images)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe looks at U.S. President Donald Trump at a joint news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House June 7, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
President Trump, pictured in trade talks on Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires with Chinese President Xi Jinping (far left), this week dangled the possibility that an arrested Huawei executive could become a bargaining chip. PHOTO: KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS