Hillary Clinton’s pollster admitted last October that her new conditional opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is driven by poll numbers, not by her personal convictions.
The balance of military power in the Asia-Pacific is shifting against the United States, as China and North Korea challenge the credibility of U.S. security commitments and the Pentagon faces spending limits, according to a study released on Tuesday.
China’s state-run news service, Xinhua, lays it on pretty thick in an editorial titled “Xi’s Epic Bid for Better U.S. Ties Bolsters Asian Peace, Prosperity.”
The Pentagon is actively searching for the missing remains of several hundred Marines killed in the World War II bloody Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific, according to the Department of Defense (DoD) agency charged with recovering missing U.S. service members.
The remains of 36 U.S. Marine heroes of a bloody World War II battle were found on an isolated island in the Pacific more than 70 years after they died, various news outlets report.
Nauru’s opposition and refugee advocates have slammed a government ban on Facebook, calling the move an act of “dictatorship”.
