Vodafone Group PLC (VOD) : This U.K.-based mobile phone giant has some 340 million customers, and a presence Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific and the United States (where it has a sizeable stake in Verizon Wireless).
In my previous assignment, I was the commander of United States Pacific Fleet -- same area of responsibility, but on the Navy side.
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Pollutants that build up and threaten China's ecosystem and the health of its people also traverse the Pacific and affect the United States and other countries.
Bilateral and multilateral energy and environmental initiatives are flourishing in the Asia Pacific, and the United States, in partnership with Brunei and Indonesia, will help coordinate and enhance these efforts, share best practices, and leverage existing initiatives across the various forums that undertake this work.
As President, I have, therefore, made a deliberate and strategic decision -- as a Pacific nation, the United States will play a larger and long-term role in shaping this region and its future, by upholding core principles and in close partnership with our allies and friends.
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Spengler attributes this poke in the eye to a cold calculation by the Pacific rim types that the United States is no longer the region's dominant economic power.
The United States is a Pacific power, and we are here to stay.
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Asia-Pacific CEOs said China and the United States were their dominant targets for investment over the next three to five years.
And as the two largest economies in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, Australia and the United States are helping to lead the way to a new model for trade across the region.
As I said in Tokyo yesterday, the United States is a Pacific nation, and we enjoy deep historical ties to Southeast Asia -- one of the most important and dynamic regions of the world.
And I think if you look at their official statements, they recognize, obviously, the United States is a principal Pacific power here.
So let there be no doubt: In the Asia Pacific in the 21st century, the United States of America is all in.
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"In every way we can, we are sending a clear message: the United States is a resident Pacific power and we are committed to the future, " Mrs.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership was first embraced in the United States by the State Department as a potential tool of foreign policy, and not by the U.S. Trade Representative as a possible trade initiative.
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James "Ace" Lyons, former Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, both recently told the United States Naval Institute about contingency plans they prepared to support the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy recently estimated that more than half of the drugs destined for the United States pass through the Pacific corridor patrolled by the P-3 aircraft based in El Salvador.
We are two Pacific nations, and with my visit to the region I am making it clear that the United States is stepping up its commitment to the entire Asia Pacific.
The United States is pivoting towards the Pacific, while the European end of Nato will take greater strain.
This year, the United States is hosting Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) annual meetings for the first time since 1993.
The United States of America is a Pacific nation, and we see our future as bound to those nations and peoples to our West.
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What if he were overheard outlining Beijing's plans for expanding its hegemonic influence in the Pacific rim, at the expense of the United States, its allies and interests?
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Various servers littered around the United States, Australia and the Pacific Rim countries have been handling this immense traffic, but "serious negotiations" are under way to add Canada and European countries for more bandwidth.
This gives us appropriate time to -- within the existing security context -- to do this right, because this alliance is the lynchpin of not only security for the Republic of Korea and the United States but also for the Pacific as a whole.
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He touched on nearly every part of the Asia Pacific region during his speech, and talked about a boyhood visit to Japan with his mother, his birth in Hawaii, a childhood spent partly in Indonesia and the United States' position as a Pacific nation.
The expansion of the original United States from the Appalachians to the Pacific and the Rio Grande had indeed required dealings with outsiders.
In 2012, the administration reported progress toward completion of a trade agreement between the United States and 10 other Asia-Pacific nations, which conspicuously excludes China.
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In 2009, U.S. officials said Mexicans smuggling drugs and migrants into the United States were increasingly turning to the Pacific Ocean for a short sail to the California coast.
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