Chinese military personnel take part in a rehearsal ahead of a parade commemorating the eightieth anniversary of victory in World War II in Beijing on August 20, 2025. (Pedro Pardo via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
US Commerce Secretary Howard William Lutnick and Japanese Minister for Economic Revitalization Ryosei Akazawa shake hands on on September 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
Arleigh Burke–class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) sails in formation during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise on July 28, 2022. (DVIDS)
A formation of Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles takes part in a military parade celebrating the seventieth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China in Beijing on October 1, 2019. (Xia Yifang via Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
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)
Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi attends a press conference at the prime minister's office on September 16, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan. (Photo by The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)
Relatives of abducted girls after the releasing 82 of school girls, kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok back in 2014, at Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja, Nigeria on May 7, 2017. (Photo by Sodiq Adelakun/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Russian battlecruiser 'Pjotr Velikij' passes the Great Belt Bridge as it leads nuclear submarine 'Dmitrij Donskoj' through the Danish waters on July 21, 2017 near Korsor, Denmark. (Photo by Ole Jensen - Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)
The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO 199) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) (U.S. Navy Photo)