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