pacific. it encompasses the countries located around the indian and pacific oceans. they account for 3 fifths of the world's population, are central to global value chains and produce almost 60 percent of global g d p. that and chinese assertiveness in the region has sped up the adoptions of interpret civic strategies, but not just the e u, but also the netherlands, germany, and france. now ahead of the forum that begins in paris to model d w. so now follicle interviewed frances ambassador to the in the pacific, christoph panel. she began by asking him if frances into pacific strategy is more oriented toward security. and if that affects larger engagement in the region, it is not exactly true that the french strategy is very focused on defense. it's one important element when essential element that there was deception. i think it is widespread perception because our ministry of forces was the 1st to publish their into pacific strategy that the whole into pacific strategy addresses. many other

pacific. a forum and badass will bring together e u and in the pacific ministers tomorrow. but what is the in the pacific, and what are europe's plans in the region, frances ambassador, to the in the pacific explains and the bedroom until a big sign off with the lavish closing ceremony. after more than 2 weeks of competition, controversy and keeping covey at b. ah, i'm british energy, welcome to dw news, asia, glad you could join us. europe has always been involved with asia, and now it wants to be even more trade is the main area. it wants to do this in and improving technology. connectivity and security also form parts if it's offering to the region. these are set to be discussed at a forum to be held tomorrow in paris. it will bring together foreign ministers of e u. member states. and some 30 countries in the area known as the interpreter. vic, it encompasses the countries located around the indian and pacific oceans. back out for 3 fifths of the world's population, are central to global v

its strategy in, in the pacific. some countries are more engaged than others, but what is important in my view and what the adoption of the indoor pacific strategy for cooperation demonstrated was that the e u, as a whole, recognizes that the new pacific is important and that we collectively have strong interests in that region, if you take, for instance, the protection of commercial feelings, if you take trade, if you take again climate change by diversity, the prediction of oceans and health, these are major issues, major interests for us. and what happens in the north pacific clearly has a strong influence on our future, our prosperity and security. so i think now there is a wide recognition among you members, and this is reflected in the strategy of the you, that the indo pacific is very important. and this is something new. when we started the discussion in brussels and that was at the end of 2020, nobody would have predicted that we would adopt the you into a pacific strategy in september of $21.00. we thought

when we speak of the pacific war, i like to start with that first word, pacific, the pacific basin, the descriptor "pacific." how did the geography and topography, terrain, the weather of this theater, affect both sides in this conflict? we'll start with, how about land, sea, and air. john, can i hit you with that one first and we'll work our way over to ian. >> absolutely. land-wise, the weather and the geography, the topography are everything. to some extent i see the pacific war as an interspecies war from an american perspective at least, because you are dealing with, you know, malaria-borne mosquitos that can basically cripple your armies. in addition, you have no infrastructure of any kind at many pacific theater battlefields. this means, especially from an army perspective, that you're looking at some pretty major engineering problems. you're looking at port construction. of course liaison with the other services is absolutely vital. you're going nowhere without the navy. and of course everything's affected by what happens with the weather. but i think in the case of where most p

i don't mean peaceful, but i mean the the pacific the descriptor pacific how did the geography and topography terrain of the weather of this theater affect both sides in this conflict? i think we'll start with how about land cn air? so can i hit you with that one first and we'll work our way over to ian and yeah, absolutely. i mean land-wise, you know the weather in the geography the topography are everything to some extent. i see the pacific war as an inner species war from an american perspective at least because you are dealing with you know, malaria-born mosquitoes that can basically cripple your armies in addition. you have no infrastructure of any kind many pacific theater battlefields. so this means especially from an army perspective that you're looking at some pretty major engineering problems. you're looking at port construction, of course liaison with the other services is absolutely vital you're going nowhere without the navy and of course everything's affected by what happens with the weather, but i think in the case where most specific theater battles are fought, it's mainly jus

the brought together e u, and other in the pacific nations. the aim of this minister for them to seek broader cooperation with the e. u. so what does this cooperation look like at a time? and he was faced with its biggest security crisis in decades from all that i'm joined by japan's ambassador to the you. yes. so she, my sucky ambassador, my 2nd welcome. your prime minister is talking of sanctions against russia, and over the weekend, your foreign minister, yours, your master. hi, she said the music to go to the conference or the ukraine issue has meaning in the, in the pacific as well. how does the ukraine situation impact the into pacific? thank you very much again. first, and then on signing the ground, your crisis, our prime minister was very clear this morning by on them and in russia act because that's a, via a team's international role. and also the integrity we're perfectly coordination with and also u. s. and other right minded countries because it's a very challenging to international order based on the overall. and you asked me a q

how does the ukraine situation impact the pacific? thank you very much again for us and concerning the ground your price is. our prime minister was very clear this morning by on them and in russia act. because that virus team international law and also the integrity, we are perfectly coordination with you. and also us and other minded countries because it's a very challenging to international order based on the overall. and you asking the question about asians, to asian in back to asia. i think the plan, of course, geographically it's not the regions of 8 in the asia, but this is the unit touching up on question in principle, right? overall. so who we are now, said jackson to change the state school by use of force or by and by ratings and dennis, you know, certainly that would affect over the world, including, including the, the reasons i mean, you mentioned the rules on the e r m server and dropping it so that is correct. so that's why that's taking the same positions as the will always united states as a right to mind it than us to

the brought together e u, and other in the pacific nations. the aim of this ministerial forum to seek broader cooperation with the you so what does this cooperation look like at a time? and you is faced with its biggest security crisis in decades from all that i'm joined by japan's ambassador to the you. yes. so she, my sucky ambassador, my 2nd welcome, your prime minister, a stalking of sanctions against russia. and over the weekend, your foreign minister, you issue mass a high i, she said the music to go to the conference or the ukraine issue has meaning in the, in the pacific as well. how does the ukraine situation impact the into pacific? thank you very much. again, 1st and then on signing the ground, your crisis, our prime minister was very clear this morning by on them and in russia act because that's a virus teams international role and also the integrity we are perfectly coordination with. and also us and other combined countries because it's a very challenging to international order based on the overall and you asking the question abo

pacific. a forum and badass will bring together e u. m in the pacific ministers tomorrow. but what is the indifference of faith and what are europe's plans in the region? frances ambassador to the in the pacific explains and the bedroom into a big sign off with the lavish closing ceremony. after more than 2 weeks of competition, controlled the seat and keeping cove it had to be ah, i'm british energy, welcome to d, w and use a shared ledger good join us. europe has always been involved with asia and now it wants to be even more trade is the main area. it wants to do this in and improving technology. connectivity and security also form parts of its offering to the region . these are set to be discussed at a forum to be held tomorrow in paris. it will bring together foreign ministers of e u. member states, and some 30 countries in the area known as the into pacific. it encompasses the countries located around the indian and pacific oceans. they account for 3 fifths of the world's population are

you know, the pacific was not stable from one point of view in the first year. the japanese were taking territory very rapidly, so there, i think you could say there's a greater emergency to be dealt with. whereas in europe, our principal ally, great britain, has the english channel as it's safe mode for the time being. germany is tied down in russia. so i think that dictated a lot of those choices that really as, in the first year of the war, quite a bit of our effort was going to trying to stabilize the situation in the pacific and in particular to secure hawaii and to secure our c communications to new zealand and australia, which [inaudible] be the base for the eventual counter offensive. >> [inaudible] these contemporary issues. about two years ago, i was invited over to do a conference for the japanese about court strategy in the pacific, and i felt like i was stepping back into 1944, looking at it. because the japanese, now, they've turned their focus now to china, but you talked this morning about japanese over extension. they've got the same dilemma. th

i've always wanted to talk about franco's pacific fleet. let me answer what i think i'm going to interpret is the subtext of the question. is this all just a big joke, this considering of counterfactuals? it is controversial, as i mentioned earlier, among many scholars who say don't do that. the keynote address will be given by neal ferguson tonight. he edited a very good book, i think it's called "what ifs of history." it's a collection of different essays from hitorians considering counterfactuals from different periods of history, eras, places, subjects. the best part of the book, i thought, was ferguson's introduction, which is a long discussion and gets into the philosophy of history. kind of dazzling, really and he develops an argument i think is convincing. listen, you have to deal with counterfactuals as a historian because they are linked to the issue of causality. if you believe there is causality in history, if one event can cause another, then you must also accept that it could have happened differently. if you don't accept it c

s. vessel was chased away by a russian naval ship near the pacific carolyn's. but the u. s. has denied it, carried out operations in russian of waters. ukraine's president said warnings over a possible invasion on provoking panic. and in the capital cube on saturday war veterans were among thousands who march nice civilian show of strength. dosher butler reports. oh, sort of a clear message from keith to moscow at a rally with thousands of people are choo crane's government to stand up to russia some here, ford for ukraine. veterans of the country's war with russian back separatists in the east. and they say they'll fight again. we are ready, we are ready to fight. if it happens, we don't want to, but it will happen. we are here to say this kind of meeting is about the brand new people do go to gather all i want to get to so that we're not separated real over content. and we also can protect it if it needed in any time. so that's why we're here. some demonstrators gathered beneath the statue of tad, us shift jenko, and 19th century poets. an artist, a symbol of ukrainian nat

, such as they antony blinkin is in the region to meet with pacific island leaders. sarah clark has more the announcement to open. an embassy in the solomon islands comes as a us secretary of state antony blink. and touched down in fiji to hold talks with 18 pacific leaders on key issues like climate and security. it's a move that's been seen as an attempt by the united states to re establish diplomatic ties almost 3 decades after it downgraded its presence in the island nation. the u. s. closed its embassy and honey, our in 1993. over the last 2 decades, china has been building up its influence in the south pacific emerging as a diplomatic and economic partner to an increasing number of countries. china is also committed to send police advisors to the solomon islands after the riots which devastated capital last november. the u. a state department says the embassy would start as a small set up in honey our with 2 employees and about 5 local staff. but it's not just the embassy. there are also plans to reopen an office for the u. s. peace court in the capitol. saturd

to hold talks with 18 pacific ladies on key issues like climate and security. it's a move that's being seen as an attempt by the united states to re establish diplomatic ties almost 3 decades after it downgraded its presence in the island nation. the u. s. close its embassy and honey, our in 1993. over the last 2 decades, china has been building up its influence in the south pacific, emerging as a diplomatic and economic partner to an increasing number of countries. china is also committed to send police advisors to the solomon islands after the riots which devastated the capital last november. the u. a state department says the embassy would start as a small set up in honey hour with 2 employees and about 5 local staff. but it's not just the embassy. there are also plans to reopen an office for the u. s. peace court in the capitol. saturdays announcement is part of president biden strategy in the in our pacific, which aims to build partnerships in the region with its allies to counter china's growing ambitions and influence. is really military drills in the oc

going up to the pacific northwest. we're missing out on that one. over the next few days, that just kind of weakens and drifts down our way. it doesn't really deliver anything in the way of rain here. by wednesday, it's pretty much fizzled out. watch the accumulated rainfall the next few days. very tell-tale sign here where the rain keeps going into the pacific northwest. when we look at the accumulated rainfall from now through march 9th, we don't see a lot here. if we come in and play that through for a closer look here at home, we'll let that go through thursday. this thursday. and there is a subtle uptick on here where we get 0.001 showing up. there is an increase in clouds on wednesday and thursday. i don't have rain in the forecast at this point. doesn't look that likely. in the long-range forecast, the models are saying hey, there is a chance you might get 0.001 of an inch. whether we get that or not, it doesn't matter. as we play that forward, we go through march 9th. it tells the same story. we might get light

and one of the things that i think struck me in trying to do ministry the pacific war from something other than american perspective is to how anxious and neurotic almost hysterical the japanese decision-makers thinking about all of the bad things in my happen for them if they didn't have to eliminate possible threats. >> i was going to add to that as well that the classic answer the question always does goes down to the community is that the japanese can't leave an unreduced - setting aside. and there is an article in the book talking about the roll of the japanese maybe leading up into more and a friend of mine just recently pointed this out to me and said that if you look, there's a series of wargames over conducted by the navy just prior to the outbreak of the war and is wargames, they tried to have different scenarios where this just detect the doctor let's just attack the british and see if we can get away with that and yes, and every one of those scenarios, was inevitably ended up happening is that they had enough in a war with all three powers so having come to that conclusio

invisalign americans and pacific islander and pacific islanders. today a "asian pacific america," director/writer amy long is here to talk about her first film "a shot through the wall" and he'll talk to her about her personal journey as a filmmaker. then we connect with the chinese historical cultural project and the big lunar new year celebration march 5th. and we wrap up with a favorite, a performance from the firebird youth chinese orchestra. hello, i'm robert handa, your host for our show on nbc bay area and cozi tv. this is "asian pacific america."

but the ultimate story about the asian pacific war in my view, is that by framing it as the pacific war? after you look at that as the maritime war across the pacific if they're about 25 million dead in asia-pacific wars, i believe basically about 80% of them about 20 million of them died on the asian continent. the horrific loss of life in the asian continent is one of the most important things about the second world war. that we have either not discussed at all not recognized. and failed to understand to our apparel because it's really affects everything that has happened since then in terms of the relations out there in the pacific particularly between china japan korea all of these nations that experience japanese have not forgotten it. thank you. very winter done. yeah. it's great to be back here and great to see all of you. lots of friends. i've seen in conferences. and i just like to say a word about someone who's not here. i lost my brother this past year. to covid and was regular i don't think i attended a conference without him. he was also i also worked for the world war two

to hold talks with 18 pacific ladies on key issues like climate and security. it's a move that's being seen as an attempt by the united states to re establish diplomatic ties almost 3 decades after it downgraded its presence in the island nation. the u. s. close its embassy and honey, our in 1993. over the last 2 decades, china has been building up its influence in the south pacific, emerging as a diplomatic and economic partner to an increasing number of countries. china is also committed to send police advises to the solomon islands after the riots which devastated the capital last november. the u. a state department says the embassy would start as a small set up in honey hour with 2 employees and about 5 local staff. but it's not just the embassy. there are also plans to reopen an office for the u. s. peace court in the capitol. saturdays announcement is part of president biden strategy in the inner pacific, which aims to build partnerships in the region with its allies to counter china's growing ambitions and influence. and we are taking you back to us secr

an indo pacific ministers tomorrow. but what is the in the pacific and what are your plans in the region? frances ambassador to the in the pacific explains and the beijing been done a big sign off with a lavish closing ceremony. after more than 2 weeks of competition controlled the seat and keeping cove it had to be.

i asked him how the ukraine crisis impacted japan's position in the, in the pacific region. and his answer was the need to uphold the rules based international order. you can watch that interview on our youtube channel. ah, parliament in a pall is due to restart debate on a controversial us aid grant on thursday. lawmakers were hoping to ratify the measure last week, but the discussion was post owned because of massive protests outside the parliament. and also opposition from some members of the ruling coalition. the grant of $500000000.00 us dollars is supposed to be used for the construction of new power lines and other infrastructure projects. it's turning into an explosive issue in nepal. this is the latest in a series of protests against the new infrastructure program, funded by the us security forces, use water cannon and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who pelted them with rocks. nepal requested the a from the u. s. government agency, known as the millennium challenge corporation or m. c. c in 2017. but critics say it will harm nepal. amalgam says we are in opp

i asked him how the ukraine crisis impacted japan's position in the india pacific region. and his answer was the need to uphold the rules based international order. you can watch that interview on our youtube channel. aah! parliament in a paul is due to restart debate on a controversial us aid grant on thursday. lawmakers were hoping to ratify the measure last week, but the discussion was postponed because of massive protests outside the parliament . and also opposition from some members of the ruling coalition. the grant of $500000000.00 us dollars is supposed to be used for the construction of new power lines and other infrastructure projects. it's turning into an explosive issue in nepal. this is the latest in a series of protests against the new infrastructure program, funded by the u. s. security forces, use water cannon and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who pelted them with rocks. nepal requested the a from the u. s. government agency, known as the millennium challenge corporation, or m. c. c, and 2017. but critics say it will harm nepal. oh, interesting. we

i asked him how the ukraine crisis impacted japan's position in the india pacific region. and his answer was the need to uphold the rules based international law that you can watch that interview on our youtube channel. ah, parliament in a pall is due to restart debate on a controversial u. s. aid grant. on thursday, lawmakers were hoping to ratify the measure last week, but the discussion was post owned because of massive protests outside the parliament. and also opposition from some members of the ruling coalition. the grant of $500000000.00 us dollars is supposed to be used for the construction of new power lines and other infrastructure projects. it's turning into an explosive issue in nepal. this is the latest in a series of protests against the new infrastructure program, funded by the us security forces, use water cannon and tear gas to disperse the demonstrators who pelted them with rocks. nepal requested the a from the u. s. government agency, known as the millennium challenge corporation or m. c. c, and 2017. but critics say it will harm nepal. amalgam says we ar

a secretary of state flies to fiji on saturday with this joint statement, his aiming to reassure pacific leaders that washington and its allies are committed to providing security. and distributing covered 19 vaccines as was bursting investment in infrastructure across the region. and all of this fall, china is ramping up. it's aid and influence. aging has labeled the court lance, as an inflammatory initiative designed to undermine 3rd parties like china. these foreign ministers have pledged increased humanitarian relief, terrorism and cyber and marine security for endo pacific nations. the court members are expected to make further commitments when they made in japan in the middle of the year. sarah clark out 0 brisbin australia when our drug smuggling is on the rise across southeast asia, ty authorities a confiscating millions of pills every week allows is reported in a 100 percent rise in seizures. in iso nations has occurred in may and mom is driving there such out there as tony chang explains in the hills on the border with me and mom, an army patrol and thailand emerges from the mi

of state, anthony blink, and as in fiji for a virtual summit was pacific island leaders. sarah clark has more the announcement to open. an embassy in the solomon islands comes as a u. s. secretary of state antony blink. and touched down in fiji to hold talks with 18 pacific leaders on key issues like climate and security. it's a move that's been seen as an attempt by the united states to re establish diplomatic ties almost 3 decades after it downgraded its presence in the island nation. the u. s. closed its embassy and honey, our in 1993. over the last 2 decades, china has been building up its influence in the south pacific emerging as a diplomatic and economic partner to an increasing number of countries. china is also committed to send police advisors to the solomon islands after the riots which devastated the capital last november. the u. s. state department says the embassy would start as a small set up in honey hour with 2 employees and about 5 local staff. but it's not just the embassy. there are also plans to reopen an office for the u. s. peace court in the capito

with united message on the indo pacific region. what brings us together, what is an affirmative vision for what the future can bring about, but also a commitment to defend the, the rules based systems that we have spent tremendous time and effort building. that's the overriding focus of the quote grids of foreign ministers from the united states, india, japan, and australia. the security alliance says it supports an open and inclusive vision and offers an alternative to a china lead order in the region. and it came to push back on china's expansion origin easing a period of rising strategic uncertainty. the rules and norms that have provided a foundation for us to ability. and hence our prosperity are under pressure. in particular from authoritarian regimes, full of increasing concern to the quad is beijing and moscow's announcement last week of a strengthening relationship with presidents shading ping and vladimir putin declaring uno limits, partnership with mutual protection of each country's core interests. as tensions between r

it's the pacific islands. first community outbreak. russian media a reporting a lympics gazer, camilla valley ever tested positive for a bad heart medication before leaving forbade ging. the drug is used to trade angina and his band by the world and doping agency as a performance enhancing stimulants. and investigation is underway in libya into an attack. on the interim prime minister abdul hammered debates car was shot at in the capital tripoli. but he escaped on you. did. and vote is in india's most popular state order pradesh are heading to the polls for local elections. the ballot is an important test for the prime ministers. popularity with older pradesh accounting for 80 seats in parliament, no render modi's b j. p party won the last 8 election in 2017. those are the headlands. i'm and language streams next to how do you define successful 1st here in charge of the counseling, we bring the storage from different ones that are rapidly changing the world we're living. what do you think's been driving to vul

sarah clark has more now for nations for democracy, all with united message on the indo pacific region. what brings us together, what is an affirmative vision for what the future can bring about, but also a commitment to defend the, the role based systems that we have spent tremendous time and effort building. that's the overriding focus of the quote, groups of foreign ministers from the united states, india, japan, and australia. the security alliance says it supports an open and inclusive vision and offers an alternative to a china lead order in the region. and it came to push back on china's expansion origin easing a period of rising strategic uncertainty. the rules and norms that have provided a foundation for us debility. and hence our prosperity are under pressure. in particular, from authoritarian regimes, full of increasing concern to the quad is beijing and moscow's announcement last week of a strengthening relationship with presidents shading ping vladimir putin declaring uno limits partnership with mutual protection of each country's core interests. as tensions between russi

to hold talks with 18 pacific ladies on key issues like climate and security. it's a move that's being seen as an attempt by the united states to re establish diplomatic ties almost 3 decades after it downgraded its presence in the island nation. the u. s. close. it's embassy and honey, our in 1993. over the last 2 decades, china has been building up its influence in the south pacific, emerging as a diplomatic and economic partner to an increasing number of countries. china is also committed to st. police advises to the solomon islands after the riots which devastated the capital last november. the u. a state department says the embassy would start as a small set up in honey our with 2 employees and about 5 local staff. but it's not just the embassy. there are also plans to reopen an office for the u. s. peace court in the capitol. saturday's announcement is part of president biden strategy in the inner pacific, which aims to build partnerships in the region with its allies to counter china's growing ambitions and influence. a rate of military police in brazil

nice traditions of spotlight on security in the asia pacific region, the u. s. japan and south korea me to discuss the threat one north korea moreland steamers. ah how low they will start in the middle east and there's some unsettled weather to come across areas here. thanks for weather system that's pulling its way east across iran, bringing rain sleet and snow to areas here, smoother showers, creeping into western areas of pakistan. but behind it we've got the shamar when that's blowing down the gulf. and that's going to strengthen on sunday. bringing a bit of a wind chill to areas dropping a temperature down in doha to 20 degrees is going to cause some hazy sunshine with lifted dust. we could see some sandstorms. by the time we get into monday, it does is the temperature around this area likely to pick up. now the wind is still an issue across northern areas of africa. we are going to see it swirl away, particularly across parts of to nuclear as well as algeria and libya. it's a rather dry picture here with some of the temperatures below average for this t

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that's the inter pacific region. but the overriding focus and the overarching focus of this joint statement is a free and inclusive pat. we've heard this group often reference an anti blink and reference the fact that this is an alternative pat to what china can offer and central to this is democracy and freedom of speech. so they've also talked about strengthening saba and counter terrorism efforts in the region. and increasing maritime security support and leaving testers have confirmed russian figures guys at camilla valley ever tested positive for a band substance before the games began. if, if daniels case will now be taken to the court of arbitration for sport, it will rule whether she can continue competing at the games. it may also consider whether the russians should be stripped to the gold medal de, one in the tame skating event. on tuesday officials delayed a ceremony to present to those medals. such cases are not helpful to the games. i think hopefully most people see that of the, the 3000 people are comp

looking around the room a number of you are not asian pacific americans. today you are because we appreciate you being here to celebrate with us. in the last year or year and a half in the asian communities we have been encouraging each other to speak up, stand up because of anti-asian hate at the san francisco human rights commission. we also have talked a lot about standing together. we shouldn't stand together and support each other, connect this event today. not only as we kickoff the whole year of cultural celebrations in the city, but we want all of you to have an opportunity to connect a number of you just told me earlier this afternoon this was the first time you were in city hall in two years. isn't that great? i want to thank you mayor for allowing us to do this. this afternoon is about celebrating families, celebrating communities by first communities coming together. we are thinking this is part of every year in may we have the celebration of asian pacific heritage month. we were thinking what is our theme this year. anti-asian hate, standing t

i have pledged to deepen cooperation against what they call collision in the pacific region. the bulk includes estrella, japan and india, and it's remarks as seen as an effort to counter china's growing economic and military expansion. the group has discussed the pandemic, cybersecurity, illegal fishing and climate change. sarah clark has been covering developments and joins me live now from brisbane. hello there, sarah. the foreign ministers have just released a joint statement. what have they agreed on? is that a meeting of the court group has just come to close? the press conferences currently underway. we had maurice pine, who's australia, pharmacist. she opened that press conference, and in that joint statement, the group reaffirmed the support for the observation of democracy in that the central part of this court packed. she said that the region is in a period of uncertainty, and our prosperity is under pressure. a particularly from authoritarian regimes and of course this is in reference to china. this packed up part of it's a gender is to push back on the expanding n

harris has been trying to expand its tires in the indo pacific. that's after a decision by australia last year to counsellor french submarine deal in favor of a strategic alliance with the u. s. washington. a separately approved the sale of airplanes, a warplanes to wind, an easier for that deal hasn't been finalized. zachary abuser is a southeast asia, political expert, and professor at the national war college. he explains why southeast asian countries are trying to diversify the weapons purchases in the past. united states has been deemed fairly unreliable because of our restrictions on sales of weapons and even spare parts for weapons because of their human rights abuses. but i think indonesia would like to a consummate, a major arms deal with united states to keep us engaged in regional security. american weapons are simply too expensive for many countries, and the process of acquiring them takes a very long time to work its way through the american bureaucracy. and congress saw a lot of countries in southeast asia. i are looking to newer sup

managing china's growing power in the asia in the pacific region. so there again, you wonder? so i think that while we cannot talk about a alliance per se, between russia, china does that, doesn't exist. there is no formal alliance, but they did 20 years ago, put aside their border differences and have just renewed that treaty of friendship . so clearly there's a, at least tactical, they say strategic, and also economic going, economic and technological shared interests. and again, you know, if you have a common enemy that tends to put people together and they had that you're talking to return, bringing people together. i mean, the, you, nato, and the u. s. face a major, major challenge. now, are they going to pull through? well, interestingly enough, you can say that putin has also inadvertently brought allies closer together, you know, present my con famously called nato brain dead a few years ago. and i think that this is now impetus for this alliance to show what it truly stands for. and sure, there will be difficulties to get everybody on the s

these tests have certainly raised the stakes here in asia pacific and i think it's been important to from and to be lincoln's point of view. and also from his counterparts from south korea in japan, really to put on a united front in that joint statements. and also in that joint news conference that they have delivered in hawaii with all of the participants condemning what they called provocative actions by north korea. also hinting at the possibility that can juggling the north korean leader has possibly said that he might end the more a tory among nuclear testing. and also the launch of longer range intercontinental ballistic missiles, which would certainly really step up with that would certainly be an increase provocation and blink. and also accepted the fact that, that the north koreans could use the current crisis in ukraine and exploit that to launch more missiles, but did not seem phased by that saying he and the allies here in asia pacific already to meet that challenge. as far as the americans are concerned, he said that we walk and chew gum at the same time. interestingly,

we are going to have security commitments in the independent roe pacific -- indo-pacific long term and those security commitments are going to require fuel and sustainment. and so we got to think about that seriously. we got to make sure whatever plan we have in place, whatever we do here that we can continue to defend the nation from the indo-pacific theater. so long answer. apologize. i appreciate you staying with me there, lita. here in the room. reporter: thanks. two yes, sir. first -- two questions. first, are you able to name any of these potential host nations that have reached out and requested u.s. troops? mr. kirby: not right now, matt. no. as i said yesterday, we're in close consultation with them if and when there's decisions to deploy additional u.s. forces on allied territory in lockstep with that or those countries we'll certainly be as transparent with you as we can be. reporter: can you speak to the reports that the u.s. is aware of russian troops possibly moving medical supplies, especially blood supplies up closer to the ukrainian border, and what kind of concerns do

managing china's growing power in the asia in the pacific region. so there again, you wonder? so i think that while we cannot talk about a alliance per se, between russia, china, because that doesn't exist, there is no formal alliance. but they did 20 years ago, put aside their border differences and have just renewed that treaty of friendship . so clearly there's a, at least tactical, they say strategic, and also economic going, economic and technological shared interests. and again, you know, if you have a common enemy that tends to put people together and they have that you're talking to return, bringing people together. i mean, the, you, nato, and the u. s. face a major, major challenge. now, are they going to pull through? well, interestingly enough, you can say that putin has also inadvertently brought allies closer together, you know, present my con famously called nato brain dead a few years ago. and i think that this is now impetus for this alliance to show what it truly stands for. and sure, there will be difficulties to get everybody on t

m in the pacific ministers tomorrow. but what is the indifference of faith and what are your plans in the region? frances ambassador to the in the pacific explains and the beijing mentor a big sign off with a lavish closing ceremony. after more than 2 weeks of competition control the c.