In that shed, there's a big map of East Asia on the wall, with pictures and notes pinned to it. And it shows the South China Sea - with a series of lines marking what's known as China's nine-dash ...

The United States has one of its six West Coast-based aircraft carriers operating in the Western Pacific Ocean again ...

On this map, Mongolia to the north and Central Asia are blank because ... Various millets--sorghum, German millet, proso millet and the like--were introduced into East Asia from ancient India, long ...

A major redrawing of the map of the South China Sea began when Xi Jinping came to power in 2012. In the subsequent three ...

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to comprise 17,000 islands). Because ...

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Southeast Asia lies at the geographic heart of this vast and dynamic region. It is home to two U.S. allies (the Philippines and Thailand) and several important partners. United States’ goals in the ...

The long trip by a frail, 87-year-old pope was seen as a bold endeavor and a muscular step for a global church looking East.

When World War I ended in 1918, the winners, principally Britain and France (for the US electorate had decisively rejected ...

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