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 Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel and the guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) operate in the Arabian Gulf on January 8, 2023. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jeremy R. Boan)
Ukrainian soldiers fire with D-30 artillery at Russian positions in the direction of Klishchiivka in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on August 13, 2023. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Military vehicles in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on September 3, 2015, carry DF-5B intercontinental ballistic missiles during a parade commemorating the seventieth anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II. (Photo via Wikimedia Commons)
An operator carries a reusable airstrike drone called Punisher made by UA Dynamics during a test in Kyiv on August 11, 2023. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)