For instance, sister company Carlson Wagonlit Travel is one of the world's largest travel agencies, but China forbids foreigners from providing travel-related services, so Carlson is paying a Beijing destination management company, Pacific World, to handle much of what it could do itself.
As the fastest-growing region in the world, the Asia Pacific will shape so much of our security and prosperity in the century ahead, and it is critical to creating jobs and opportunity for the American people.
In addition to world-class Chinese and Pacific Island displays, the museum boasts a fine Native American collection.
It is also important for peace, stability, and prosperity in the Asia Pacific and the world.
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And security in the Pacific means a world in which our economic and military power is second to none.
Douglas MacArthur's intelligence staff in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Now the Scandinavian countries are perhaps the most pacific in the world.
Since 1998 he dominated the 400 meter freestyle, winning the event at every Olympic, World, Commonwealth and Pan Pacific championships until taking a post-2004 break.
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines is the largest of the overseas cemeteries, with more than 17, 000 Americans, marking World War II's Pacific Theatre.
The perilous battle that was fought during World War II in the Pacific at Iwo Jima was a battle against all odds, and yet this picture immortalizes the victory of young GIs over the incursion against the Japanese.
In Europe, in Latin America, in Africa, in Asia and now in the Arab world, sudden events and slow-moving trends bring us into a new world -- in the Pacific and in the Mediterranean -- and we welcome the new global governments in the G20, reflecting the growing influence of emerging countries as well as their new responsibilities.
So this is one of the free trade initiatives that's most ambitious in the world and would foster integration of the Asia Pacific region, one of the regions with the greatest dynamism in the world.
The Asia-Pacific region is the world's most economically vibrant, a point underscored by Europe's travails.
The Asia-Pacific region of the world is tremendously important to the United States for a number of reasons.
In conclusion, Tupperware has found explosive growth in emerging markets around the world, particularly in the Asia Pacific region.
By 2000, container ships, jetplanes and the internet had shrunk the world even more, and the Pacific too became a trade highway.
Bangladesh ordered the closure of the three Nassa factories Nassa Fashions, Bay Pacific Enterprise and New World Apparel because of visible cracks in exterior walls, according to the Labor Ministry document.
The Conference will also involve representatives from the Intangible Cultural Heritage sector and will be preceded by a meeting of the Regional Memory of the World Committee for the Asia-Pacific Region (MOWCAP) on 17 and 18 February.
And if we can stay on that trajectory, letting this region of the world know that America is a Pacific power and we intend to be here, actively engaged in trying to boost the economy worldwide and for our respective countries, then I am cautiously optimistic that we'll get through this current crisis and will come out stronger over the next couple of years.
The stakes could hardly be higher -- for the two Pacific powers and for the world.
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George Bush trumped that in November by advocating a free-trade area spanning the Pacific and covering half the world economy.
Because our economic strength at home is the foundation of our leadership in the world, including here in the Asia Pacific.
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The economic miracle that began here in Japan after the Second World War has now swept across the Pacific and throughout the wider region.
Watson climbed down to Wreck Beach, where there were two abandoned gun towers, built during the Second World War to protect Canada from a Pacific invasion.
Spread spectrum was first used by the allies in the Pacific campaigns of the second world war, where it foiled Japanese attempts to jam radio-controlled torpedoes.
Mr Obama has expressed more support lately for completing free trade agreements with Panama, Colombia and South Korea, the Doha round of world trade talks, and the Trans Pacific Partnership, but that has not translated into results.
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The TPP -- the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement that I just met with the countries who are involved, we're doing some outstanding work trying to create a high-level trade agreement that could potentially be a model not just for countries in the Pacific region but for the world generally.
Then the President will be moving along to the leaders' meeting of the APEC Summit, where he'll have the opportunity to engage in a dialogue about our continued efforts to promote balanced and sustainable growth in the Asia Pacific region and around the world, building upon the strong efforts that have taken place at the G20 -- which Mike Froman can discuss in a bit.
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