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Chinese President Xi Jinping takes part in a meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on July 2, 2019. (MARK SCHIEFELBEIN/AFP via Getty Images)

Palau President Surangel Whipps, Jr. greets Taiwan Foreign Minister Joseph Wu and US Ambassador to Palau John Hennessey-Niland during an international press conference in Taipei, Taiwan, 29 March 2021 (Photo by Ceng Shou Yi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

A general view of "Ever Given", a container ship operated by the Evergreen Marine Corporation which is currently stuck in the Suez canal, during a tugging attempt to re-float it (Photo by Fadell Dawod/picture alliance via Getty Images)

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) transits the Mediterranean Sea, March 17, 2021 (U.S. Navy Photo).

President Joe Biden, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meets virtually with members of the "Quad" alliance of Australia, India, Japan and the US on March 12, 2021 (Photo by OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

The USS Constitution set sail for the first time since 1997 in Boston Harbor. (Photo by Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Britain's new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth arrives in New York on October 19, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Two US-made F-16 fighters in the air during an scramble take off at the eastern Hualien air force base on January 23, 2013. The Taiwan air force demonstrated their combat skills at the Hualien air base during an annual training before the coming lunar new

MH-60R Sea Hawks attached to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron HSM-77 (the “Saberhawks��) hover in formation between the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (foreground) and USS Nimitz while under way in the South China Sea, July 7, 2020. The Nimitz and R

Riot police hold up a warning flag during a demonstration in a mall on July 6, 2020 in Hong Kong, China.