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)
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Chinese President Xi Jinping during their bilateral meeting on November 13, 2019, in Brasilia, Brazil. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
The RT-2PM2 Topol-M space intercontinental ballistic missiles, cold-launched, three-stage, solid-propellant, road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles with thermonuclear warheads. Rehearsal for Victory Day Military Parade in Moscow, Russia on April 26, 2012. (Vyacheslav Argenberg via Wikimedia Commons)
Members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces participate in tactical exercises in the forest near Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 13, 2022. (Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A destroyed tank of the Russian army is seen at Kukhari, Kyiv Oblast, on July 9, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Chuzavkov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds a press conference after the EU Leaders Summit in Brussels, Belgium, on June 24, 2022. (Dursun Aydemir/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
A house burns after being shelled during an artillery duel between Ukrainian and Russian troops in the city of Lysychansk, Ukraine, on June 11, 2022. (Photo by Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images)
Ukrainian artillerymen check their weapons and special equipment before going to the frontline in Kherson, Ukraine, on July 15, 2022. (Photo by Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)