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Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrives in Beijing, China, on April 25, 2024. (Official State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy)

Ukrainian servicemen fire a 120mm mortar during military exercises by assault units in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, on January 30, 2024. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images)

An IranAir Airbus A330 at Mehrabad International Airport on March 11, 2017, in Tehran, Iran. (Photo by Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A soldier launches a kamikaze drone at Russian positions on January 26, 2024, in Kupiansk, Ukraine. (Photo by Kostiantyn Liberov/Libkos/Getty Images)

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Retired M41 “Walker Bulldog” light tanks, which served the Taiwanese Army for 63 years, are on display by a beach on October 7, 2023, in Kinmen, Taiwan. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan Jeyhun Bayramov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tleuberdi, and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Alexander Khvtisiashvili attend a press conference after a ministerial meeting on Trans-Caspian connectivity in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on November 25, 2022. (Photo by Cem Ozdel/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

On his first state visit to the United States, Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks during a meeting with five US governors to discuss clean technology and economic development on September 22, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Matt Mills McKnight-Pool/Getty Images)

Pill bottles in a raided fentanyl lab in Tijuana, Mexico, on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Soldiers from the Ukrainian 63rd Brigade hide an artillery unit in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, on April 13, 2024. (Wojciech Grzedzinski via Getty Images)