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)
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken meets with Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing, China, on April 26, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)
President Xi Jinping speaks during a toast at an official state dinner as part of the Chinese president's two-day state visit to France on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Ludovic Marin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden greets Chinese President Xi Jinping before a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
French President Emmanuel Macron greets Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Antoine Gyori-Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
Houthi followers carry weapons as they march over an American flag during a rally against the US-led aerial attacks on Yemen on March 9, 2024, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Photo by Mohammed Hamoud/Getty Images)
Demonstrators representing Tibetans and Uyghurs protest during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' Week in San Francisco, California, on November 15, 2023. (Photo by Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)
Secretary of State Antony Blinken follows Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on April 26, 2024. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)