A member of the Peoples Armed Police stands at the entrance of the National Peoples Congress at the Great Hall of the People on March 6, 2024 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
Senior lecturer in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology at Macquarie University, Council of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute
Confetti flies over the stage and crowd as Taiwan’s president- and vice president–elect Lai Ching-te and Hsiao Bi-khim speak to supporters at a rally at the party’s headquarters on January 13, 2024, in Taipei, Taiwan. (Photo by Annabelle Chih/Getty Images)
A picture taken during an organised tour by Yemen's Houthi rebels on November 22, 2023, at a port on the Red Sea in Yemen's province of Hodeida. (AFP via Getty Images)
President Tsai Ing-wen receives Hudson's Global Leadership award from President and CEO John P. Walters and Sarah Stern, chair of the Hudson Board of Trustees, on March 30, 2023, in New York. (Taiwan Presidential Office via Flickr)