The United States launched a major push into the Pacific on Wednesday, seeking to hold off China’s advance in the region, with Vice President Kamala Harris announcing $600 million in funding at a key regional summit.
The United States promised Tuesday to support Pacific nations after they rejected a pact with China, saying Beijing’s own actions showed how “opaque” its offers were.
China has built what appear to be full-scale outlines of American warships including an aircraft carrier, satellite imagery showed, possible targets to practise striking some of the most potent US weapons deployed in the Pacific.
Noting that the Philippines is the only country in East Asia and the Pacific where schools remain closed, the Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution recommending the resumption of face-to-face classes through the immediate launching of pilot testing in Covid-19 low risk areas in the country.
Noting that the Philippines is the only country in East Asia and the Pacific where schools remain closed, the Senate on Tuesday adopted a resolution recommending the resumption of face-to-face classes through the immediate launching of pilot testing in Covid-19 low risk areas in the country.
The remote Pacific nation of Micronesia recorded its first case of Covid-19 on Monday, ending its run as one of the few places on Earth without the coronavirus.
Chinese jets conducted drills near Taiwan’s airspace on Wednesday for the sixth time this month, as relations between the two rivals worsen.
Widening inequality in Asia’s teeming cities could lead to potentially risky social divisions, the World Bank warned Tuesday, urging governments to do more to help the urban poor.
North Korea appeared to carry out a sixth nuclear test Sunday, with seismic monitors measuring an “explosion” of 6.3 magnitude near its main test site, sending tensions over its weapons ambitions to new heights.
President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to take a more friendlier stance with the United States with a fellow populist insurgent, leader Donald Trump, in the White House.
