(Placename) a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid ...
At the end of last year, the Treaties Committee's report said it is in the nation's interest to ratify the treaty; however, it did concede that work needs to be done to convince an increasingly "nationalist and isolationist" public of this. "The committee is aware of the resurgence in ...
At postwar Versailles, sitting down on the winners’side of the table, Japanese leaders proposed a clause guaranteeing racial equality in the hope they would receive the international recognition as an imperial power they had long been seeking—but it was rejected. The refusal cemented Japan’s su...
Hagel said America had no interest in trying to “contain China” and it took no position in such disputes. But he cautioned repeatedly that the US would stand by its allies. “We have mutual self defense treaties with each of those two countries,” Hagel said, referring to Japan and the...
1989 US Invasion of Panama United States of America vs Republic of Panama The construction of a short cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans was a pipe dream for much of the 19th century for both the British and Americans. If a canal existed, then trade would be substantially easier ...
That has perplexed coastal countries including China. Manila initiating an arbitration case motivated by Washington is a case in point. Beijing has held the right approach to solve disputes through negotiations. China has signed boundary treaties with 12 of 14 continent neighbors. Some treaties were ...
In April 1942, the US military launched its first-ever air attack on Japan. Known as the Doolittle Raid, eighteen US bombers took off from ships in the Pacific Ocean, struck the Tokyo area, and then landed in China, where the crews were helped by civilians and troops. Both the raid and...
The transfer was to be completed by December 31, 1999, but, in ratifying the treaties in March and April 1978, the Senate attached reservations that extended U.S. rights to defend the canal beyond that date and to maintain limited rights to intervene. Panama had approved the treaties in a...
the inability of the Shogun, Japan’shereditarymilitarydictator, to enforce hiscountry’straditional isolationist policy; the Japanese were soon forced to sign similar treaties with other Western nations. These events contributed to the collapse of the shogunate and ultimately to the modernization of ...
US has high stakes in the region firstly because of their defense treaties in the region and secondly it contests the values of liberal rules order that it has been trying to imply globally since the pacific war. Moreover the EEZ discussed earlier is the right of every state in the region...