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Police officers stand guard outside the High Court in Hong Kong, Sept. 2, 2026.
A March 4, 2021, photo shows pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong walking to a prison van to head to court in Hong Kong.
Supporters hold signs during a press event to support pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong in Taipei, Sept. 2, 2026.
Voters cast their ballot for the presidential election at a polling station in Taipei on Jan. 13, 2024.
Newly elected opposition Kuomintang leader Cheng Li-wun delivers her speech during the party's National Congress in Taipei, Nov. 1, 2025.
People ride past campaign ads for presidential and parliamentary candidates ahead of the general election in Taipei, Jan. 12, 2024.
A Nov. 5, 2022, photo shows supporters of Chiang Wan-an, grandson of the late president Chiang Kai-shek from the main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) at a campaign rally in New Taipei City.
A 2014 photo shows people attending a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen crackdown.
Hong Kong pro-democracy activists Lee Cheuk-yan, left, and Chow Hang-tung posing during photo sessions in Hong Kong on March 21, 2021.
A man walks into West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts ahead of the national security verdict for three former leaders of a disbanded group that organized annual Tiananmen Square vigils, charged with inciting subversion of state power, in Hong Kong, Aug. 21, 2026.
A map of the first and second Pacific island chains.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese shakes hands with Fiji's Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka before a bilateral meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel in Suva on July 6, 2026.
A nuclear-powered Type 094A Jin-class ballistic missile submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy during a military display in the South China Sea April 12, 2018.
A JL-3 intercontinental-range submarine-launched ballistic missile during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing, Sept. 3, 2025.
Since National Security Law went into effect, the government silenced the yearly protest that once drew 180,000.
89-year-old mother of student who died in the 1989 massacre said police have been watching her for days.
