Neither did Tang’s purported PhD from the California Institute of Technology. His degree was from an unaccredited “diploma mill” called Pacific Western University.

不久，人们甚至发现他自称获得加州理工学院的博士学位也是捏造的，而真实学位却由一所未经授权的“文凭工厂”西太平洋大学所颁发。

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Stretching from the Indian subcontinent to the western shores of the Americas, the region spans two oceans -the Pacific and the Indian -that are increasingly linked by shipping and strategy.

这个地区从印度次大陆一直延伸到美洲西海岸，横跨太平洋和印度洋两个大洋，由于交通运输和战略因素而日益紧密地联系在一起。

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Buruli ulcer has been reported from 30 countries in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Western Pacific, mainly in tropical and subtropical regions.

非洲、美洲、亚洲和西太平洋主要在热带和亚热带地区的30个国家已报告有布鲁里溃疡。

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Wallace had reached these ideas from his studies on islands in the western Pacific Ocean.

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Indonesia's 18,000 islands are part of the Pacific Rim of Fire, which stretches from the North and South American western coasts across the Pacific.

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Just south of the Taitao Peninsula, the large Golfo de Penas (Gulf of Sorrows) is open to storms from the western Pacific and swells can reach 5m high.

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Complicating matters further is the fact that the richest petroleum deposits lie in the Okinawa Trough, an 8, 200-foot (2.5 kilometer) gash in the seafloor that separates the Chinese continental shelf from the Western Pacific.

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But what worries U.S. intelligence analysts is that China is now moving to acquire the kind of sophisticated military systems only America has had a potentially decisive advantage given the fact that U.S. forces in the Western Pacific are far from home and enjoy access to only a handful of bases in the region.

FORBES: Inside Pentagon, Growing Alarm Over China's Military Prowess