Using the provided reference image as the base photo, redesign it into a high-impact Japanese YouTube travel/news thumbnail. Keep the border-gate location recognizable, but crop tighter around the central monument, boost contrast and saturation, add dramatic blue-vs-red lighting split down the middle with a vertical lightning beam marking the border, and make the layout feel like an urgent documentary thumbnail. Reposition the Kazakhstan flag to the top left and the China flag to the top right inside bordered boxes with drop shadows. Add a black-and-gold brush-stroke banner across the top with
