It also supports the implementation of the Regional Framework for Action on Food Safety in the Western Pacific ... Committee for North America and the South West Pacific met earlier this year ...

A rising force, now the world’s second largest economy, China predicted that America’s decline would ... begun to boost its presence in the western Pacific, at least on paper.

Most Americans know about the nations in the vast South and Western Pacific mainly from the ... Chinese dominance in the region would complicate America’s ability to defend the so-called first ...

Their departure is another sign of the U.S. military’s ongoing long recessional from the world’s most geo-strategically important region ... in the Western Pacific, America’s national ...

If Taiwan fell to China, regional allies such as Japan and South Korea could be dragged out of the American security umbrella in the Western Pacific ... the perception of America’s relative ...

A few years ago, that most heavily traveled branch of the Western Pacific was constituted as a prefecture (county) of a mainland Chinese province. It has a bustling administrative capital on what ...