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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)
An F-35C Lightning II prepares to launch from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in Mirmar, California, on November 7, 2021. (Charles Allen via DVIDS)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets with President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping in Bali, Indonesia, on November 15, 2022. (James Brickwood/Sydney Morning Herald via Getty Images)
President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders' Informal Dialogue during APEC Leaders' Week at Moscone Center on November, 16, 2023, in San Francisco, California. (Kent Nishimura via Getty Images)
United States President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders' week in Woodside, California, on November 15, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)