Noun1.Ryukyu Islands- a chain of 55 islands in the western Pacific to the to the southwest of Japan (returned by United States to Japan in 1972) Nihon,Nippon,Japan- a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship bu...
(Placename) a group of uninhabited islets in the East China Sea; claimed by China and Japan. Chinese name: Diaoyu Islands Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 ...
(also Nansei-Shoto), an archipelago in Japan, between the islands of Kyushu and Taiwan. The Ryu-kyus separate the East China Sea from the open Pacific Ocean and stretch in an arc from northeast to southwest for approximately 1,200 km. The archipelago consists of six groups of islands—Osu...
It falls especially close to Welsh’s novel when Maria Milleny imagines her trip to the island as a ‘gothic thriller’, where she ‘is lured to the island by Catriona on behalf of a select circle of upper-class Scottish satanists’ (31). Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer’s novelisation ...
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The United States and China are locked in a high stakes competition. It's playing out over land, sea and air. And nowhere is it more tense than in the Indo-Pacific.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese and Japanese coast guard ships have faced off in waters around disputed islands in the East China Sea, both countries said on Tuesday. China said it drove away several Japanese vessels that "illegally" entered territorial waters on Monday around the islands...
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Solomon Islands lawmakers elected former Foreign Minister Jeremiah Manele as prime minister Thursday in a development that suggests the South Pacific island nation will maintain close ties with China.
Taneti Maamau denied he had planned to meet with Peters personally. Kiribati has drawn increasingly close to China since severing diplomatic ties to Taiwan in favor of Beijing in 2019. Graham-McLay writes for the Associated Press.
Cook Islands gives some detail of its China deal that has upset close partner New Zealand February 18 China says a visit by Cook Islands’ prime minister isn’t meant to antagonize others in South Pacific February 10 What is the Pacific Islands Forum? How a summit for the world’s ...