Show threadHistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴Mar 3

*#China deploys stealth destroyers... *

(2/n)

...key #Energy routes..."

"#China’s decision to send high end surface combatants toward #Iranian
...waters underscores the #PLA #Navy’s expanding operational reach well beyond the #WesternPacific."

"Trilateral naval drills near a strategic chokepoint

The upcoming exercise is expected to follow previous iterations of the #SecurityBelt #maritime drills held by #China, #Iran, and #Russia in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024...

2)
https://internationaldefenceanalysis.com/china-navy-commissions-two-advanced-type-052dm-destroyers/

China Navy Commissions Two Advanced Type 052DM Destroyers

China Navy Commissions Two Advanced Type 052DM Destroyers, enhancing naval strength with upgrade radar, weapons & modern warfare capabilities.

International Defence Analysis
Robert SanscartierFeb 6

#health #WesternPacific

Climate change is accelerating antibiotic resistance across the Western Pacific

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260206/Climate-change-is-accelerating-antibiotic-resistance-across-the-Western-Pacific.aspx

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #ClimateInstability #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Climate change is accelerating antibiotic resistance across the Western Pacific

Urgent action is needed as climate change fuels antibiotic resistance in the Western Pacific, threatening health and highlighting socioeconomic vulnerabilities.

News-Medical
Steve SloanJan 6

On Saturday, January 3, 2026, my Bowser HO model of Western Pacific (WP) 583 was leading a local past the "Salmonella" fishery at the California Central Model Railroad Club (CCMRC) in the historic Agnew depot in Santa Clara, CA.
The real WP 583 was a Baldwin VO-1000, WP Class S-60. Reportedly, it was built in 1945, serial 71542. It was sold in 1973, becoming Auto-Train 624.

#trains #railroads #railroading #modelrailroading #HOscale #ccmrc #niles #baldwin #westernpacific #blh #trainspotting #santaclara

Robert SanscartierSep 3, 2025

Dr Piukala said in the last 30 years, 75 per cent of new infectious diseases have come from animals

"In our region alone, zoonotic diseases claim over 2.5 million lives each year. And climate change and biodiversity losses are only intensifying these risks"

To respond properly, he said, people must embrace the truth of 'one world' & the need to act with 'one health'

https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/pacific-news/571867/pandemics-climate-shocks-unsafe-food-interconnected-who-regional-director

#WesternPacific #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #pollution #environment #climate

Pandemics, climate shocks, unsafe food interconnected - WHO regional director

Dr Saia Ma'u Piukala says the world is shifting rapidly, "and so are the threats we face".

RNZ
(hurting more people is worse)Jul 5, 2025

On the one hand, this title sounds like literally the least we can do, on the other hand nothing we have done involving relocating people and remote Islands had ever been not evil.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1krt5r7nrliw4wsSMaGTN3?si=pIpxD2moRFaw2ViZvofnrA

@WesternPacific @kmpiw @kmpiw

#Tuvalu #ClimateChange #auspol #Australia #Pacific #WesternPacific #PacificSolution #southseaislanders

Explainer 474: Tuvalu’s climate-change escape to Australia

The Foreign Desk · Episode

Spotify
Show threadNonilexApr 30, 2025

The #democratic island nation of just 17,000 people hosts American-controlled airstrips & soon-to-be-completed radar installations that the #USmilitary describes as “critical” to monitoring vast swathes of water & airspace. It is also a key piece of the Second Island Chain, a string of strategically located islets that #America is fortifying in an effort to deny #China access to the #WesternPacific.

#geopolitics #Palau #UnitedStates #AsiaPacific

WorlddefensereportMar 11, 2025

U.S. Approves Sale of GMLRS-AW Rockets to Australia

https://defensemirror.com/news/39026/U_S__Approves_Sale_of_GMLRS_AW_Rockets_to_Australia

#GMLRSAW #USAustraliaDefense #RocketSale #MilitaryTechnology #PrecisionStrike #HIMARS #DefenseDeal #LockheedMartin #MilitaryProcurement #USStateDepartment #WesternPacific #SurfaceToSurface #GMLRS

U.S. Approves Sale of GMLRS-AW Rockets to Australia

Deal includes guided multiple launch rocket system rounds for long-range precision strikes

defensedailyMar 11, 2025

U.S. Approves Sale of GMLRS-AW Rockets to Australia

https://defensemirror.com/news/39026/U_S__Approves_Sale_of_GMLRS_AW_Rockets_to_Australia

#GMLRSAW #USAustraliaDefense #RocketSale #MilitaryTechnology #PrecisionStrike #HIMARS #DefenseDeal #LockheedMartin #MilitaryProcurement #USStateDepartment #WesternPacific #SurfaceToSurface #GMLRS

U.S. Approves Sale of GMLRS-AW Rockets to Australia

Deal includes guided multiple launch rocket system rounds for long-range precision strikes

defensedailyMar 11, 2025

U.S. Approves Sale of GMLRS-AW Rockets to Australia

https://defensemirror.com/news/39026/U_S__Approves_Sale_of_GMLRS_AW_Rockets_to_Australia

#GMLRSAW #USAustraliaDefense #RocketSale #MilitaryTechnology #PrecisionStrike #HIMARS #DefenseDeal #LockheedMartin #MilitaryProcurement #USStateDepartment #WesternPacific #SurfaceToSurface #GMLRS #DefenseNews #SecurityCooperation

U.S. Approves Sale of GMLRS-AW Rockets to Australia

Deal includes guided multiple launch rocket system rounds for long-range precision strikes

Dorothea LangeOct 25, 2024

Untitled photo, possibly related to: Western Pacific line runs through unclaimed desert of northern Oregon. Ten miles from railroad station at Irrigon. Morrow County, Oregon

#WesternPacific #Oregon #Tenmiles #Irrigon #MorrowCounty

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017773471/