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Activists hold up signs spelling out "Defend Democracy" during a protest to call on accountability for the Jan 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol Building on the National Mall on Oct 20, 2022 in Washington, DC. The activists, with Our Revolution, held the protest to call on more steps to be taken to protect voting rights ahead of the midterms and in light of new revelations on the Jan 6 attack. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker / AFP)

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FILE PIC of Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto at Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Oct. 23, 2019. (Photo by AFP)

To show how close China's forces have been getting to Taiwan's shores, Beijing's military released a video of an air force pilot filming the island's coastline and mountains from his cockpit.

Beijing has reacted furiously to a visit by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the island, which it claims as its territory and has vowed to retake, by force if necessary.

It is unfortunate that the word Indo-Pacific has been seen by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in terms of a 5-4-3-2-1 Formation not unlike that of Nato. - Photo: AFP

A man stands by the window of a closed Louis Vuitton boutique at the GUM department store in downtown Moscow on May 27, 2022. (Photo by Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)

A bookmaker writes the latest odds on the result for the candidates vying to succeed Britain's Prime Minister, outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, on July 13, 2022. (Photo by CARLOS JASSO / AFP)

US President Joe Biden with Asian leaders including Malaysia's Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob (second from right) attending the US-Asean special summit, at the White House on May 12. (Source: EPA)