Coast
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Consider the Senkaku incident in 2010, when, after Japan arrested the crew of a Chinese trawler that had rammed a Japanese
coast
guard vessel, China escalated its economic reprisals.
In August 1941, after Nazi Germany had invaded the Soviet Union, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and US President Franklin D. Roosevelt met on a warship off the
coast
of Newfoundland and signed the Atlantic Charter.
North Korea continues to enlarge its nuclear stockpile and develop long-range missile technologies (it can already launch a ballistic missile capable of hitting America’s west coast).
Yet the same
coast
was devastated by a 38-meter tsunami in 1896, and again by a 29-meter tsunami in 1933.
Fishermen take cellphones out to sea to call the market towns on the
coast
on the way back to shore to see where they can get the best prices for their catch.
It is not surprising that the greatest and strongest ideological opponent of the American way of life was not in distant Europe or Asia, but in Cuba, just 90 miles off the Florida
coast.
The Pirates of the FisheriesWASHINGTON, DC – Piracy off the
coast
of East Africa has grabbed headlines in recent years, but there is another type of piracy that has received far too little attention.
It is normal for India’s east
coast
around Chennai to suffer heavy monsoon rains at this time of year.
In February, flooding and strong winds from Tropical Storm Dineo devastated the
coast
of Mozambique and had a severe impact on the local population.
On the other hand, the Chinese have been invited to develop Gwadar port on the Balochistan coast, and to use it as a base for their fast-expanding navy.
This has severely degraded the quality of education at second- and third-tier universities concentrated in China’s inner provinces, thus widening the development gap between China’s urban
coast
and rural hinterland.
Big shipments are hidden on fishing boats and freighters, then broken up into smallerconsignments that are sent by fast boats up the
coast
to Morocco or Spain.
Operated by a Franco-German charity, the Aquarius rescued 630 migrants and refugees off the
coast
of Libya.
Progress has been made on many fronts, including burden-sharing in settling refugees, reforming and strengthening Europe’s border protections and
coast
guard, concluding agreements with other countries to return migrants, and providing development and governance assistance to address the push factors driving migration.
Various Asian countries joined efforts to combat piracy off the
coast
of Somalia.
Indeed, as the sea reared up to ravage the country’s
coast
on March 11, 2011, more than 90% of the population in the affected areas had already fled to safety.
Thirty years ago, Australian vessels, with the government’s blessing, killed sperm whales off the West Australian
coast.
A Silk Glove for China’s Iron FistNEW DELHI – For years, China has sought to encircle South Asia with a “string of pearls": a network of ports connecting its eastern
coast
to the Middle East that would boost its strategic clout and maritime access.
In the United States, a distinction is frequently drawn between citizens of “red states,” which usually vote for the Republican Party, and those of “blue states” – concentrated in the Northeast, the upper Midwest, and the Pacific
coast
– which usually vote for the Democratic Party.
Although PAS prevailed in Kelantan and Terengganu states, it was nearly wiped out on the mainland’s west
coast.
In the Schengen Area, some countries’ inability to protect external borders adequately – owing to a lack of administrative capacity (especially true in Greece, but also, to some extent, Italy), together with geographic challenges like long and fractured
coast
lines – have undermined confidence in the face of the refugee crisis.
What the Schengen Area needs is a true European
coast
guard, with its own budget, ships, and personnel.
It thus makes sense for the new
coast
guard, backed by EU funds, to start there.
Moreover, a European
coast
guard would provide a flexible tool with which to allocate resources as effectively as possible at any given moment.
While seeking to enlarge incrementally its military footprint in the more than 80% of the South China Sea that it claims, China’s aim in the East China Sea is to break out of the so-called “first island chain,” a string of archipelagos along the East Asian
coast
that includes the Senkaku Islands and Taiwan.
It leaked to the London Sunday Times that it had placed nuclear-armed submarines off Iran’s
coast.
Or the continent can reach back to Giuseppe Verdi, born two hundred years ago, whose penultimate, and probably greatest, operatic achievement starts on the
coast
of Cyprus with a storm of fantastic violence and the opening words of its hero, Otello: Esultate, rejoice!
Cyprus is a crucial staging post for American security operations in the eastern Mediterranean, and the gas fields off the Cypriot
coast
might be developed as an energy source that would – at least after 2017 – reduce European dependence on Russian supplies.
The sun was shining, the sea was blue, and I was aware of the Pacific Ocean stretching ahead thousands of miles, uninterrupted by land until it reached the
coast
of Chile.
The overall cost of piracy off the
coast
of Somalia in 2011 was estimated at $7 billion.
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