Posts Tagged ‘pacific’

While Hot War Is Raging In Eastern Europe, The Cold War In Asia-Pacific Is Well And Truly Underway

While Hot War Is Raging In Eastern Europe, The Cold War In Asia-Pacific Is Well And Truly Underway By Benjamin Picton, Senior Macro Strategist at Rabobank Comprehensive, But Not Strategic Equities finished last week lower again as the ‘higher for longer’ narrative continues to be priced in by markets. This despite the Bank of Japan […]

How Pacific Nations Are Playing US-China Rivalry to Their Advantage

Today’s global geopolitics is more about great power competition than any other thing. It is evident from the ongoing military conflict in Eastern Europe, and it is evident from the ways in which the US has been trying to build a global coalition against China for the past many years now. So far, Washington has […]

Australian Man and His Dog Rescued by Mexican Tuna Boat After Drifting 3 Months in the Pacific Ocean

MANZANILLO, Mexico—An Australian sailor who had been adrift at sea with his dog for three months has been rescued by a Mexican tuna boat in international waters, the fishing vessel’s owner said Monday. Timothy Lyndsay Shaddock, 54, was aboard his incapacitated catamaran Aloha Toa in the Pacific about 1200 miles (1900 kilometers) from land when […]

UN approves large Fukushima discharge into Pacific Ocean, prompting China to ban Japanese seafood imports

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an international organization within the United Nations system, just approved a large Fukushima discharge into the Pacific Ocean. The pending discharge, which includes over 500 Olympic-sized swimming pools of “treated” radioactive water, will be released from the infamous Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Chinese customs and food safety regulators […]

“Partners in the Blue Pacific (PBP)”: Who are they and what their goals are?

In early February 2023, Washington unveiled the US Indo-Pacific strategy. The document repeatedly emphasized the importance of the informal group “Partners in the Blue Pacific” (PBP), established in September 2022 and composed of the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the United Kingdom. The purpose of the PBP is to strengthen relations with the […]

LIVE NOW: Where Are the Ships? Fighting a Pacific War Without American Sealift: A Hudson Institute Discussion

The U.S. maritime industry is too small to contribute enough to American military and economic security due to its shrinking size, while communist China’s maritime industry has been growing. America faces challenges. Rear Admiral Mark Buzby (U.S. Navy, ret.), former commander of the Navy’s Military Sealift Command and head of the Maritime Administration in the […]

AUKUS Alliance Members to Strengthen Presence in the Pacific

China, which continues to step up its military and economic power year after year, is becoming increasingly concerning and alarming for the United States and its allies, who are aware that Beijing may soon surpass Washington in terms of the volume of its geopolitical influence. Western leaders are taking a variety of steps to limit […]

3.5 Tons Of Cocaine Found Floating In The Pacific Ocean

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand police said Wednesday they found more than 3 tons of cocaine floating in a remote part of the Pacific Ocean after it was dropped there by an international drug-smuggling syndicate. While they had yet to make any arrests, police said they had dealt a financial blow to everyone […]

AUKUS prospects in the Pacific

On December 8, 2022 in Washington the defense chiefs of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, members of the 2021 AUKUS defense alliance, praised the nuclear submarine construction process for Australia and expressed their hope that it would proceed as soon as possible. The US Department of Defense stressed that all of the […]

Mission Complete: NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down In Pacific Ocean

Mission Complete: NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Splashes Down In Pacific Ocean by Tyler DurdenSunday, Dec 11, 2022 \ Update (1241ET):Welcome home, Orion. Moon mission complete. *   *   * Update (1228ET): Orion has entered the Earth’s atmosphere. NASA@NASA ·Follow We have now entered the entry phase. The @NASA_Orion spacecraft is traveling just under 25,000 miles per hour. #Artemis 11:23 […]

Watch: NASA’s Orion arrives back to earth after landing in Pacific Ocean

Splashing down back onto earth. NASA’s Artemis 1 moonship successfully landed in the Pacific Ocean, ending a 25-day test flight to the moon and back. Descending under three huge parachutes, the unpiloted 9-ton Orion capsule gently hit the water off Baja California, 19 minutes after encountering the first traces of the discernible atmosphere. “I don’t […]

Secrets of Imperial Japan; The Pacific “Theatre”

In a series of essays (1, 2, 3, 4a, 4b, 4c, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and perhaps more to come) on the Pacific Theatre of World War II, a British contributor to the Miles Mathis website who goes by name “Lestrade” has done a driveby history of Imperial Japan, that in my […]

‘This Is How A Pacific Atoll Dies’: Drowning Island Nations On Climate Change Threat

While world leaders from wealthy countries acknowledge the “existential threat” of climate change, Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano is racing to save his tiny island nation from drowning by raising it 13 to 16 feet (4 to 5 meters) above sea level through land reclamation. While experts issue warnings about the eventual uninhabitability of the […]

Strong Earthquake Shakes Mexico’s Pacific Coast

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude 7.6 earthquake shook Mexico’s central Pacific coast on Monday, killing at least one person and setting off a seismic alarm in the rattled capital on the anniversary of two earlier devastating quakes. There were at least some early reports of damage to buildings from the quake, which hit at […]

Asia’s future takes shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific

September 08, 2022 by Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and widely cross-posted Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia’s far eastern coast to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific The Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok is one of the indispensable annual milestones for keeping up not only with the complex development process of […]

Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries

Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries Environment02 September 2022By Carly Cassella Section of the Garbage Patch in 2019. (Fedde Poppenk) Our oceans are swirling concoctions of waste that scientists have for years reported is fed by an influx of pollution from both the land and the sea.But working […]

Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries

Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries Environment02 September 2022By Carly Cassella Section of the Garbage Patch in 2019. (Fedde Poppenk) Our oceans are swirling concoctions of waste that scientists have for years reported is fed by an influx of pollution from both the land and the sea.But working […]

Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries

Much of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’s Plastic Comes From These 5 Countries Environment02 September 2022By Carly Cassella Section of the Garbage Patch in 2019. (Fedde Poppenk) Our oceans are swirling concoctions of waste that scientists have for years reported is fed by an influx of pollution from both the land and the sea.But working […]

The “Pacific Way” of Oceania Becomes a “Roaring Highway”

In 2022, the competition between Australia, the United States and China over spheres of influence in Oceania, the planet’s vastest region occupying the South Pacific, intensified. This has led to destabilization of relations of the small island states in the region. And while it has turned out to be easy to destroy decades-old architecture, the […]

Who authorized Japan to pollute the Pacific with radioactive water?

Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) began installing discharge facilities in early August and will begin dumping contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean from next summer. Who authorized TEPCO to do this? Does Japan have the right to dump radioactive water into the ocean in an unprecedented manner? Will this set a precedent for sewage […]

Pacific Peace Network Challenges RIMPAC

Last month, two Canadian warships, HMCS Vancouver and Winnipeg departed Esquimalt naval base heading for San Diego and then Hawai’i to participate in the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) war maneuvers scheduled from June 29 to August 4. Just as the Canadian warships were departing Esquimalt, activists in Hawai’i gathered at Kailua near the Marine Corps Air Station on […]

Washington’s Partnership (for Primacy) in Blue Pacific

In Washington’s ongoing efforts to confront and contain China’s rise on the global stage, it has announced yet another bloc, the “Partnership in Blue Pacific.” The Financial Times in a recent article titled, “US and allies launch initiative to help Pacific Island nations,” would claim, regarding the stated objective of the new bloc, that: The […]

The Pacific Northwest has defeated dozens of fossil fuel projects — but the industry still wants to quietly expand

The fossil fuel industry, smarting from a string of defeats in Oregon and Washington, is hoping to continue to expand in the face of the climate crisis, but without arousing opposition. Source

Pacific may be most likely to see ‘strategic surprise’, says U.S. policymaker Campbell

The U.S. Navy guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), front, and the guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) underway in the the South China Sea on 18 April 2020. (Wikimedia Commons) The Pacific may well be the part of the world most likely to see “strategic surprise,” the U.S. Indo-Pacific coordinator Kurt Campbell said on […]

NATO’s Indo-Pacific Expansion to Tackle China

The most recent US decision to do a ‘diplomatic boycott’ of winter Olympics in Beijing has caused a new low in the US-China bi-lateral relations. The decision to boycott has firmly established the drastic failure of the US-China summit that Biden had only recently called to sort out some of the outstanding issues facing their […]

 AUKUS & Quad In Context: Australia Violates All Indo-Pacific countries

Australia has formed the anti-China AUKUS (Australia, UK and US) and Quad (Australia, India, US and Japan) Alliances to contain a supposedly aggressive China. In reality a US lackey, nuclear terrorist, climate criminal, serial invader and subversive Australia violates ALL Indo-Pacific countries. A detailed and documented analysis of Australian violation of all 81 Indo-Pacific countries […]

Leaders of cities in Asia Pacific commit for united local actions to meet global health goals

by Shobha Shukla and Bobby Ramakant #EndTobacco is an essential part of the bedrock for Universal Health Coverage Can we deliver on the promise of health for all unless we fix the gaping and widening punctures that are causing epidemic-proportion of preventable diseases and untimely deaths? No one needs to suffer from preventable illnesses or […]

Imperialist alliance fuels arms race in Indo-Pacific

At the G7 Summit last June, Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison, representing the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia respectively, met in private talks. The subject was how to contain China and its influence. In September these leaders announced the AUKUS Alliance, a defence agreement between the countries. Australian Prime Minister Morrison described it […]

How the RCEP Could Derail the US Plans in the Indo-Pacific

The recent ratification of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) by Australia and New Zealand have opened up the possibility of meaningfully, if not fundamentally, altering the geo-political scenario in the Indo-Pacific in favour of China. The fact that this ratification has come within months of the AUKUS and the Biden administration’s persistent attempts […]

Union Pacific Backs Off Biden’s Vaccine Mandates after Only 44% of Union Workers get Vaxxed

Union Pacific Backs Off Biden’s Vaccine Mandates after Only 44% of Union Workers get Vaxxed Date: November 5, 2021Author: Nwo Report   Source: Jim HoftIn October the Sheet Metal, Air, Rail, and Transportation Union (SMART) with 203,000 members announced they were taking a stand against the Biden regime’s forced vaccines. On Wednesday Union Pacific announced […]

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