Sentence examples for pacific powers from inspiring English sources

Pacific powers like Japan and Australia are gradually moving towards closer links with the "Atlantic" alliance.

On May 15, Mr. Hadley publicly warned North Korea for the first time against testing, saying the United States and several Pacific powers would take punitive action.

A century after the Russian-Japanese war broke out, the first in a string of conflicts between these Pacific powers, the two perennial adversaries now seem to be finally embarking on an era of real economic cooperation.

Because Stalin broke a nonaggression pact with Japan and invaded here two weeks after the end of World War II, there is, officially, no peace between two great Pacific powers: Russia and Japan.

A1 U.S. Warns North Korea The Bush administration warned North Korea that if it conducts a nuclear test, the United States and several Pacific powers will take punitive action, but officials stopped short of saying what kind of sanctions would result.

The American counter-proposal of 26 November required that Japan evacuate all of China without conditions and conclude non-aggression pacts with all Pacific powers.

For even though America, a Pacific nation is the Pacific power that Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt intended it to be, Obama, or any American president for that matter, is disadvantaged by distance.

Rather, it is a recognition that the United States has been and always will be a Pacific power, and the Asia- Pacific is an increasingly vital part of the globe for America's security and economy.

Although not claiming any territory in the region itself, the U.S. has a defense treaty with the Philippines, relies on free passage through the area to move its warships from bases in the Pacific to war zones in the Middle East, and of course considers itself the preeminent Pacific power and plans to keep it that way.

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"The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay," Mr. Obama said.