#Annexation of various Pacific areas

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Not formally schooled in WW2 history and most of what I have read is related to European theatre not Pacific but stuff related to their reasons, off the top of my head beyond checking some dates?

This is going to be long because I surprised myself with how much I knew that I didn't realize I knew, and it goes back to almost a century before the attack itself. Ack.

(Also yes 'I just followed orders' is never a defence, and that's why people are not supposed to follow illegal orders. Though it's rather a Catch-22 since depending on whose orders it is you might well end up being punished in either case.)

Forced opening of Japan's previous closed borders by a fleet of US battleships (see the Perry Expedition in the mid 1800s) is the earliest history related to why Japan was not favourably inclined to the US to start with (ever heard the phrase 'gunboat diplomacy'? Yeah. Because the US has pretty much always seen itself as Hot Shit and felt that its perceived interests overrode everyone else's sovereignty - look up 'manifest destiny' and the Monroe Doctrine while you're at it for further evidence of US attitudes to everyone not US).

The US and Europeans overthrow the Hawaiian monarchy and then the US annexes the Hawaiian kingdom in the late 1800s giving them a mid-Pacific foothold for expansion further westwards. Note that Japan is also a monarchist island nation, who have already been forced to interact with the US. If you don't think they (and everyone else in the Pacific theatre area) saw this as red flags, you're not putting yourself in their shoes.

At about the same time Spain cedes Guam and the Phillipines to the US as part of the ongoing Spanish-American war (beef between the US and Cuba traces back to then). The Philippine-American war results, with the US eventually winning control of the area. More Pacific footholds even further west.

1900-1911 - US annexes parts of Samao, forming what is now known as American Samoa. (Oh look, even more aggressive US actions in the south-west Pacific area.)

Early 20th century saw boat-building infrastructure built on Hawaii centred on Pearl Harbour. It's mid-Pacific location makes it a very key foothold (and bottleneck) to US trade and military function further westwards.

1919 - Japan proposes that the post-WW1 Treaty of Versailles include a bit about the racial equality of all members of the League of Nations (they're the only non-western Great Nation). The US and the UK slap it down (what, let PoC be equal to their lily white purity? How ludicrous!) The US enacts a bunch of racist anti-Japanese laws.

1930s - Japan goes to war for a mix of reasons, largely economic (wanting to claim areas with resources of metal and oil they need and therefor feel a right to take - just like the western Great Nations have been doing all along). They withdraw from the League of Nations and ally with Germany and Italy. The US levies trade embargoes and restrictions that largely cease the trade of scrap metal and oil to Japan and prevent their ships from using the Panama canal, cutting them off even further from resources they feel they need to support themselves and their war effort.

1940 - US Pacific fleet does exercises off the Hawaiian coast and then remains at Hawaii.

Feb 1941 - Pearl Harbour designated the permanent base for the fleet. The US starts or continues greatly expanding the facilities at Pearl Harbour in support of it.

The US and the Japanese are in negotiations for much of the year. They both have mutually exclusive points they're not willing to give way on. Negotiations are failing.

Japan wants the Philippines, which would both give them resources and remove a major US foothold in what they see as their own area of interest. If they take the Philippines then the US would attack from Hawaii.

Dec 1941 - Japan makes what it considers to be a pre-emptive strike against an obvious US threat. While this is always described as a 'surprise attack' it's worth noting that the US President knew of the possibility of an attack at least three days before it occurred (there's a declassified memo from Dec 4 of that year that predicted it); but much like the warnings of 9-11, they had a 'failure of imagination' to believe that it could actually occur).

So yeah there's basically a long history behind why Japan attacked Pearl Harbour, and it very much was not because they wanted the US to enter the war. In light of both countries expansionism into the SW Pacific and the US's attitudes towards their nation, they saw the war as inevitable. I don't believe they were necessarily wrong. Though that doesn't put them in the right, either.

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March 18, 2023

One of the common threads that I perceive in the three major cities in the PNW is how they refuse to be a city. I think compared to many cities like New York or Chicago, there is a distinct suburban feel in those three cities, especially in Seattle. I mean, there is a reason Seattle is the birthplace of the modern American mall, the quintessential suburban landmark.

While PNW prides itself on being this liberal place, there is a hidden conservatism in Seattle that many people are surprised by. Seattle and especially Portland benefit from the seedy and incredibly racist past but put a glossy diversity mural on top, celebrating diversity but ignoring the various deepening disparity that makes the place uneven and jagged.

Seattle famously passed on building their metro network, which the federal funds were eventually given to Atlanta. Atlanta is a good counterpart to Seattle. Atlanta seems to be proud of its city nature, it is The City of The South. There are major metropolitan areas in Florida and Texas, but those two states have distinctively different flavors than the South, and places like Nashville and Birmingham feel a bit too small to be called a true city. 

Atlanta has always been a city though, and Atlanta has been an example of bringing The South away from its despicable past. Just look at the Donald Glover series of the same name. Its surreal depiction of racial and other civil struggles of the town depicts the city as a city grappling with its past and moving on. This is why the South has been the leader on integration despite their segregated past, because the people of the South felt a need to remedy their past.

Meanwhile the Pacific Northwest is oddly overrepresented in media, partially because of the major film incentives in Vancouver, but because like how Los Angeles advertised filmmakers because of their diverse physical landscape, PNW has a diversity of manmade landscape, you can go from a rural ‘railroad’ town to picket-fence suburbs to major bustling skyscrapers in the space of a hour’s drive. It’s diverse enough to feel liberal, but crucially it feels to appeal to ‘American’ sensibilities. While there are times where racial (especially Native American) struggle is depicted in stories set in the PNW, it is very much dressing more than anything.

This is the reason that Seattle rejected the metro and since only made halfhearted efforts to truly ‘urbanize’ their massively growing cities. Recently, I went on what became a representative jaunt through the city of Seattle, starting from West Seattle, riding the newest RapidRide bus, which goes from Burien to Downtown through Deldrige. The bus route wasn’t really completed yet, especially places beyond Seattle, and half-finished efforts of turning the stroads that the new RapidRide travels on was lugubrious in the face of their seeming ambitions.

I took the bus all the way up to lower parts of Belltown and headed east to visit the newest addition to what was the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, now simply called Seattle Convention Center with the original part calling itself The Arch and the new part, The Summit, the unintentionally menacing monikers so familiar in the tech world.

I did not realize how big The Summit was. I thought it was an annex, but the size of The Summit might rival the original center. The building, perhaps added by the fact that parts were unfinished, adhered to the postmodernism that quietly dominates the city, the most famous example being the Seattle Art Museum. While the original attempts in the 70’s and 80’s felt whimsical in their juxtaposition, the exposed pipes and the oddly open structures of The Summit exuded more of carelessness than whimsy. As I went around the building, because I could only peek into the halls, I felt a sense of abandonment and annoyance at this absurdity.

At the entrance, there is a traditional PNW welcoming statue, similar to what I saw in the Burke Museum, but while there the statue seems to do its job of welcoming yet imposing the traveler, this incarnation almost felt pitiful compared to the huge building it is supposed to welcome. There was almost a feeling of mockery at the statue, a nod of disregard compared to the bright-faced but hastily made future the building desperately wants to show you.

So, I went through the original building, The Arch, aptly named as the arch theme is quite prevalent in the building complex, unlike The Summit, The Arch is usually open to the public, because it’s one of the best way to go pass the I-5 that blitzes through downtown, and on a whim, I took a gander at The Spheres, Amazon’s attempt at a public building.

Fortunately, I happened to come across the place during one of two days of the month where it was open to the public, only through reservations however, and therefore it had more people than it would have otherwise. The Spheres with its unabashedly rude bulging design which made many commenter crudely call the place the Balls of Seattle and the fact there is a large gentleman’s club right nearby does not help the association also give comparison to the other maligned landmark in Seattle, the EMP, with similar irrelevant curves and some disregard for the practicalities of the building, although The Sphere takes the cake from my observation.

One thing I was surprised about The Spheres is how small it was. The plants barely fit the bulging glass terrarium, the walkway awkwardly wraps around the exhibits, perhaps echoing the minimalism and efficiency Amazon is known for, and honestly I expected something better.

The Sphere is best experienced as a distressingly large sculpture than a building, an alarmingly common approach to public spaces these days. But unlike large sculptures, which use their size to convey its meaning, the size is counteracted by, well, what I said above. It has hints of various things - a public space, a greenhouse, a terrarium, an art piece, a statement - but the parts work against each other to produce a sense of being unwarranted, which a general feel I get for most Amazon-related projects, so I guess it’s in line with that.

I headed to take my bus home, which is a good example of the dichotomy of modern building practices in the last forty years. Rainier Building was built in 1977, designed by Minoru Yamasaki, who famously designed the original Twin Towers, and it is one of the unique buildings in Seattle, due to an inverted pedestal that flares out to the main building. It’s an affront to the idea of gravity, much like the most famous structure in Seattle, and its whimsy is welcomed especially compared to the new building next door Rainier Square Building.

Rainier Square Building is one of the latest offerings in Seattle, the second tallest in the city after Columbia Tower, its structure is remarkable in an unsightly way. In a way reminiscent of many highrises in London, it’s sloped to one side, curving upwards to meet the top, although it’s not a smooth curve, but jagged, perhaps make sure you don’t burn any bird or something. In London there are ‘practical’ reason for the slopes, to preserve the waylines (although I suspect it has become more of an excuse, which I welcome), but there is no such reason to build such slope here, there is no whimsy like the building next to it, but just sheer garishness.

Both are in the University District, by the way, because that’s where University of Washington once was, and they still own the land around here, which means they are the landlords of one of the most prime real estates in the city, which doesn’t corrupt their mission to educate… probably. Odd ownerships and history of various parts of the city is one of myriad headaches in redeveloping this part of the world, something that I kept in mind as I headed to the International District and King Street Station, some day before my journey above.

In the myriad of odd and bizarre metro decision in the city, the city council is trying to rectify the mistake of building their downtown tunnel off of the current center by building a second tunnel, with an interchange at Westlake, which is already crowded, and supposedly at International District, but it has seemingly decided to renege on this idea in favor of two stations.

International District has all the making of a transit hub, there is a tram, half-hearted mea culpa to the fact that they couldn’t make a First Hill Light Rail station, the aforementioned light rail, and King Street Station, which serves barely functional commuter lines, regional and long-distance Amtrak lines. You would think that the light rail, which connects downtown to the airport by an absurdly long walkway, has direct access to the train station, but no, you actually need to cross the wide 4th street in order to get across to the train station. So, no hub here.

Perhaps a tunnel that goes under 4th street that would utilize the barely-used Union Station and would provide direct access to both King Street and Link Light Rail would be a good idea, but apparently it has been an uphill battle, mostly since the place is in Chinatown, whose skepticism naturally comes from the fact people have been blasting their livelihood to have cars wheeze by them, although this time it would be akin to an abuser gaslighting the abused by relating the discomfort of getting a better life to the pain the perpetrator than given to the victim.

Indeed, the council has a knack of disappointing good ideas, like the Alaskan Way, once the elevated monstrosity, now a non-elevated one. People fretted if the Viaduct was to be replaced on-street or drilled out and they settled on ‘Why not both?’, which merely brought the traffic one story down from where it used to be, and not made the waterfront any better.

This is the Seattle that came to be. I was glad that I visited San Francisco in 2005, before the tech boom utterly trashed the city. I had fond memories that likely can never be repeated, but somehow I found myself in a similar story in a different city. Seattle was a different place in ‘09, when I first arrived here. It was a more friendly place, it felt more like a place, rather than a hunk of asphalt and concrete which we subside. The suburban feeling that residents desperately want to retain despite the growing nature of the city makes many neighborhoods dilapidated and barren, even though it must be full of people. Back in ‘09, I felt glad that I lived in Seattle, now I just want to get out of here, just be anywhere else. Perhaps it’s my personal disposition, but Seattle has overstayed its immoral advantages and has no intention to mend.

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The area's first hotel was developed at Colorado Street and Cabrillo Blvd., but what would become known at Public School [8] No 1 on Catalina Ave opened as an elementary school in 1875. By 1919 it had been renamed Manor Park Elementary School.

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Voices of Photography 攝影之聲 Issue 28 : 沖繩專題 The Okinawa Issue

「亞洲當代攝影文化現場系列」是我們聚焦亞洲各地影像文化與創作實踐的系列計畫，嘗試透過亞際跨域連結與在地論述視野，拓展我們對於攝影在亞洲的實踐歷程、視覺經驗、文化及其論域的認識座標，並藉此作為影像歷史與認識論的持續省思。

「沖繩專題」是此系列的第二輯，特別邀請影像研究者暨策展人町田惠美與許芳慈共同擔任客座主編。本期採雙向閱讀編輯，集結文論與訪談，穿越沖繩糾結的被殖民史與帝國陰霾，在霸權的支配和抵抗的鬥爭之間，批判地觀看沖繩的影像，以及作為影像的沖繩。

幾世紀前，位於太平洋上的琉球列島尚未成為「沖繩」，而是存在著一個封建君主制的國度——琉球王國，後經日本薩摩藩的島津氏入侵與大日本帝國擴張，廢琉設藩遭到併吞殖民，於1879年以「沖繩縣」編入日本國家體系之內。在二戰的尾聲、1945年激烈的沖繩島戰役後，美國的佔領統治期長達二十七年，沖繩從此劃進冷戰年代的軍事戰略島鏈。即使至1972年美國將沖繩「返還」日本，在「日美同盟」的交換條��下，僅為日本本土面積千分之六的沖繩，卻佈建了整體駐日美軍逾七成的軍事設施與基地。對某部分的沖繩來說，「戰後」彷彿被無限延長，使這個亞熱帶之島，彌漫著由地緣政治與新帝國主義擊燃而仍未散去的煙硝。

本專題介紹國吉和夫、石川真生、比嘉豐光與石川龍一等沖繩的影像實踐者，追索他們的生命經驗與攝影的多重構成，以及其間複雜的政治性問題意識；同時透過評論者仲里效、岡本由希子、仲宗根香織與井上間從文的專文，將影像之於沖繩、之於歷史，由慣常對於「如何再現」的注意力，置放於「如何建構」的維度。從而提示了影像不僅僅是從殖民的情境中派生，同時也反饋到殖民的情境裡，需要加以細緻地解析。

在專題的製作期間，由全球疫情激化的國際角力波濤洶湧。與沖繩同列第一島鏈的台灣等地讀者，閱讀本專題，或許會因類似的歷史背景與政治局勢處境而更能與沖繩共感。而在沖繩所帶來的種種啟示中，我們也將意識到對於當下的世界正在發生的反抗——無論是以國家主義修辭掩飾的極權主義和種族主義，或是以經濟復甦為號召的資本主義巨靈回魂，除非我們投入更多行動與關注，否則任何國家的「強國夢」，都會是人類史上的惡夢一場。

▍關於本期 About this issue

The “A Study of Contemporary Photography in Asia” series is a serial project that focuses on imagery culture and creative practice in various regions of Asia. Through this connection and a view that pans across Asia, we are trying to expand our understanding of the process of practice, visual experience, culture and the identifying coordinates of photography in Asia, and using such knowledge as a continuous reflection of imagery history and epistemology.

Second in the series is the Okinawa issue that features Machida Megumi and Hsu Fang-Tze, both imagery researchers and curators, as our guest editors. This issue adopts a dual reading and editing process; a combination of essays and interviews brings readers through the complicated colonial history and the burden of empiricism on the island, taking a critical view of Okinawa’s imagery, and Okinawa as an imagined object while it struggled against hegemony.

Several centuries ago, there existed no “Okinawa”, but the Ryukyu Kingdom, a feudal kingdom in the Ryukyu Islands in the Pacific Ocean. After the invasion by the forces of the feudal domain of Satsuma, and subsequently by the Empire of Japan, the Ryukyu Islands were annexed and colonized, and in 1879, established as the Okinawa Prefecture. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, the U.S. forces occupied and ruled Okinawa for 27 years, sealing its fate in the strategic chain of islands in the Cold War era. Even when the U.S. forces “returned” Okinawa to Japan in 1972, the island, which only constitutes 0.6% of Japan’s total land area, houses more than 70% of the U.S.'s military facilities and bases stationed in the whole country under the US-Japan Security Alliance. To some parts of Okinawa, it almost feels like that the “post-war” era never ended, surrounding this subtropical island with a plume of smoke that rose from the collision between geopolitics and new imperialism.

In this series, we take a look at the layered composition of the life experiences and photography by Okinawan imagery practitioners Kuniyoshi Kazuo, Ishikawa Mao, Higa Toyomitsu and Ishikawa Ryuichi, as well as the complicated political consciousness that is birthed from this interaction. We also move our focus from the question of “how to represent” to “how to construct” the background of Okinawa and its history through the essays by Nakazato Isao, Okamoto Yukiko, Nakasone Kaori and Inoue Mayumo. Through such a redirection of focus, we see the need for a careful analysis as it shows us that imagery is not only generated from colonization, but also feeds back into the issue.

While putting this issue together, the world is being ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, intensifying power rivalries. We imagine that our readers in Taiwan and other areas, which belong in the first island chain alongside Okinawa, would feel even more relevance to the island (Okinawa), given our similar histories and political situations. As we feel inspired by Okinawa in many ways, we also become aware of the struggles that are happening around the world, whether it is one against totalitarianism and racism under the mask of nationalistic rhetoric, or the return of capitalism in the name of economic recovery. Until we put into action our words and resist, any dream of a “nation of great power” is but a nightmare for the history of humankind.

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BAINBRIDGE ISLAND & BREMERTON

Bremerton is a city in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. The population was 37,729 at the 2010 census and an estimated 41,405 in 2019, making it the largest city on the Kitsap Peninsula. Bremerton is home to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Bremerton Annex of Naval Base Kitsap.

MAP OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND & BREMERTON

Depart from pier 52 and start the morning like a local at Pegasus Coffee House (131 Parfitt Way SW), followed by a lemon-blueberry scone at Blackbird Bakery (210 Winslow Way E) or croissant from mom-and-pop cart Coquette (278 Winslow Way E). Head to Hitchcock Deli (129 Winslow Way E) for a hearty porchetta or bahn mi sandwich or share a Neapolitan pizza with seasonal toppings at sibling spot Bruciato (236 Winslow Way E). Sip a house pint at Bainbridge Brewing Alehouse (500 Windslow Way E, Ste 110), or explore the small but mighty wine scene on the island along Winslow Way, from Eleven Winery (*various locations) to Fletcher Bay Winery (*various locations). You can also head farther afield to women-owned Bainbridge Vineyards (*8989 NE Day Rd).

At Bremerton Ice Center (1950 Homer Jones Dr), you can rent ice skates, get lessons, or even brush up on your hockey skills during Stick & Puck times. Wondering what a Madagascar hissing roach sounds like? The free Bug Museum (1118 Charleston Beach Rd W) houses live bugs and reptiles as well as extensive insect collections. For a different kind of drama, attend a performance by Bremerton Community Theatre (599 Lebo Blvd), a production company entertaining the area since the early 1940s. After dark, catch concerts and films at the historic Art DecoAdmiral Theatre (515 Pacific Ave).

Arts lovers can explore the island’s creative community at the biannual Bainbridge Island Studio Tour (August and December), or more modern exhibits at the free Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (*550 Winslow Way E). Admire the many coastal gardens at the Bloedel Reserve (*7571 NE Dolphin Dr), then, if you have time to spare, walk the beach at Fay Bainbridge Park (15446 Sunrise Dr NE) before heading back to the ferry terminal.

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LNG Engine Market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of ~6%

LNG Engine Market: Introduction

Transparency Market Research delivers key insights on the global LNG engine market. In terms of revenue, the global LNG engine market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of ~6% during the forecast period, owing to numerous factors regarding which TMR offers thorough insights and forecasts in its report on the global LNG engine market.

The global LNG engine market is broadly affected by several factors such as rise in stringent government regulations to reduce carbon emissions. Furthermore, several benefits associated with LNG engine are anticipated to propel the global LNG engine market in the near future.

LNG Engine Market: Dynamics

Ships run on bunker fuel, which causes high level of pollution. Greenhouse gases are also a major concern across the globe. Every year, air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide, and particulate matter are released in large amounts into the environment. Governments of various countries across the world are implementing rules and regulations to reduce pollution. This is anticipated to propel the global LNG engine market.

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In 2017, the U.S. Government and the Government of Canada passed bills to formulate fuel-sulfur limits and NOx emissions in emission control areas in North America. These areas include coastal waters of up to 200 nautical miles from coasts of Alaska and Hawaii.

Vessels entering these areas must meet the requirement that fuel-sulfur concentrations should not exceed 0.10 weight%. Engines above 130 kW installed on vessels built, since 2000 must be certified to meet appropriate emission standards corresponding to the building date of vessels. Engines installed on new and modified vessels are subject to the Annex VI Tier III NOx standards.

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From January 1, 2020, member countries of the European Union have been mandated to ensure that ships in all European Union waters, except SOx, use fuels with sulfur content of no more than 0.5%. Furthermore, all ships passing through these NOx emission control areas must use defined mandatory engine standards or equivalent NOx emission reduction technologies to comply with the stringent NOx emission levels.

LNG engines can play a major role in reducing pollution, as these vessels run on liquefied natural gas. LNG engines help lower greenhouse gas emissions and provide a cost competitive fuel choice versus conventional fuels. Thus, implementation of stringent government regulations to lower emissions is estimated to drive the global LNG engine market during the forecast period.

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LNG Engine Market: Prominent Regions

The LNG engine market in Asia Pacific is projected to expand significantly during the forecast period. Asia Pacific is witnessing significant investment in LNG facilities. China, Japan, South Korea, and India are also investing substantially in LNG power generation. This is likely to propel the LNG engine market during the forecast period.

Europe held major share of the global LNG engine market in 2019. The marine industry is well-established in the region. Europe is focusing on lowering the use of fossil fuels to meet the emission targets set by governments of countries in the region. Companies and government bodies in Europe are investing significantly in renewable energy and green fuels to be emission free by 2050. This can be ascribed to propel the demand for LNG engines in the near future, thereby augmenting the LNG engine market in the region.

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LNG Engine Market: Key Players

Major players operating in the global LNG engine market are Cummins Inc., Fairbanks Morse, Caterpillar, Wärtsilä Corporation, Rolls-Royce plc, MAN Energy Solutions, Anglo Belgian Corporation nv, MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD., HHI Engine & Machinery, DAIHATSU DIESEL MFG. CO., LTD., and Scania.

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I See You

Name: Vanuatu

Capital: Port Vila

Motto: "Long God yumi stanap" - “In God we stand”

Location: Oceania

Population: 282,117 (2018)

Religion: Christianity (main) , other native religions

Climate: Tropical/sub-tropical

Language(s) Spoken: Bislama, French, English.

Joined Commonwealth: 1980

Currency: Vatu (Vt)

Independence Day: July 30, 1980

Flag meaning: The green represents the richness of the islands, the red symbolises the blood of wild boars and men, and the black the ni-Vanuatu people. The yellow Y-shape represents the light of the gospel going through the pattern of the islands in the Pacific Ocean.

The emblem in the black is a boar's tusk — the symbol of prosperity worn as a pendant on the islands — along with two leaves of the local namele Cycad.The leaves are supposed to be a token of peace, and their 39 leaflets represent the 39 members of the Parliament of Vanuatu.

Brief History

The prehistory of Vanuatu is obscure; archaeological evidence supports the theory that people speaking Austronesian languages first came to the islands about 3,300 years ago. Pottery fragments have been found dating to 1300–1100 BC.

The Vanuatu group of islands first had contact with Europeans in 1606, when the Portuguese explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailing for the Spanish Crown, arrived on the largest island and called the group of islands La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo or "The Southern Land of the Holy Spirit", believing he had arrived in Terra Australis or Australia. The name Espiritu Santo remains to this day.

Europeans did not return until 1768, when Louis Antoine de Bougainville rediscovered the islands on 22 May, naming them the Great Cyclades. In 1774, Captain Cook named the islands the New Hebrides, a name that would last until independence in 1980.

In 1825, the trader Peter Dillon's discovery of sandalwood on the island of Erromango began a rush of immigrants that ended in 1830 after a clash between immigrant Polynesian workers and indigenous Melanesians. During the 1860s, planters in Australia, Fiji, New Caledonia, and the Samoa Islands, in need of labourers, encouraged a long-term indentured labour trade called "blackbirding". Initially, British subjects from Australia made up the majority, but the establishment of the Caledonian Company of the New Hebrides in 1882 soon tipped the balance in favour of French subjects. By around the start of the 20th century, the French outnumbered the British two to one

The jumbling of French and British interests in the islands brought petitions for one or another of the two powers to annexe the territory. Renamed the Vanua'aku Pati in 1974, the party pushed for independence, which was gained amidst the brief Coconut War.

Geography

Vanuatu is a Y-shaped archipelago, some 900 km long. It forms a double chain of about 40 mountainous islands and 40 islets and rocks of volcanic and coral origin; about 65 of these are inhabited. Some islands (including Tanna, Lopévi and Ambrym) have active volcanoes. Many of the rocky islands are steeply mountainous, the highest peaks (on Espíritu Santo) rising to over 1,800 metres. Fresh water is plentiful.

Vanuatu has been divided into six provinces since 1994. The names in English of all provinces are derived from the initial letters of their constituent islands:

Malampa (Malakula, Ambrym, Paama)

Penama  (Pentecost, Ambae, Maewo – in French: Pénama)

Sanma (Santo, Malo)

Shefa (Shepherds group, Efate – in French: Shéfa)

Tafea (Tanna, Aniwa, Futuna, Erromango, Aneityum – in French: Taféa)

Torba (Torres Islands, Banks Islands)

Natural Landmarks

Marum Crater in Ambrym, Malampa Province ( photo cropped from Nat Geo Video)

Ambrym is a volcanic island in Malampa Province. Volcanic activity on the island includes lave lakes in two craters near the summit.

Mount Yasur - Tafea, Tanna island. One of the most active volcanoes in the world, erupting at least for several centuries.

Mele Cascades - Shefa, Efate island.

The Nanda Blue Hole features a magical crystal blue water hole surround by natural green forest. Built around the blue hole is a large bungalow, bar, boardwalk and picnic area for day trippers

The blue holes are an important source of freshwater for local villages along the east coast of Santo.

Culture

The indigenous population, called ni-Vanuatu, is overwhelmingly Melanesian, though some of the outlying islands have Polynesian populations. There are also small minorities of Europeans, Micronesians, Chinese, and Vietnamese. Roughly three-fourths of the population lives in rural areas, but since independence the urban centres of Luganville and Port-Vila have drawn a significant number of people attracted by better opportunities. More than 100 local Melanesian languages and dialects are spoken; Bislama, an English-based Melanesian pidgin, is the national language and, along with English and French, is one of three official languages

Some phrases in Bislama + their meaning in English

Halo - Hello

Gudmoning - Good Morning

Tata - Goodbye

Olsem wanem? - How are you? Reply - I gud, by yu?

Wanem nem blong yu? - What’s your name? Reply - Nem blong mi … - My Name is …

Gud mitim yu / Mi glad blong mitim yu - Pleased to meet you

Sori - Sorry

Plis - Please

Tangkyu / Tangkyu tumas - Thank you

Music

Dancing is an important part of Ni-Vanuatan culture. Many villages have family dancing grounds called nasara.

The slit gong is a musical instrument made from a hollowed-out tree trunk. It is used to represent the voices of the spirits.

Food

Laplap (sometimes spelled lap lap) is the national dish of Vanuatu. Laplap is prepared by grating breadfruit, bananas, taro or yam roots into a vegetable paste. The paste is then wrapped in banana leaves and cooked in an underground stone oven, with fresh coconut cream. Meats like pork, beef, chicken or flying fox can be added

Facts

The ancient practice of land-diving (bungee jumping) originated on Pentecost Island.

Vanuatu is home to 11 species of bat, including white flying-fox. It is also the easternmost habitation of dugongs, also known as sea-cows.

In parts of Espiritu Santo and Efate, women have more power. In these societies, descent is traced through the female side of the family.

There are few prominent ni-Vanuatu authors. Women's rights activist Grace Mera Molisa, who died in 2002, achieved international notability as a descriptive poet.

Young men undergo various coming-of-age ceremonies and rituals to initiate them into manhood, usually including circumcision.

Most villages have a nakamal or village clubhouse which serves as a meeting point for men and as a place to drink kava. Villages also have male- and female-only sections. These sections are situated all over the villages; in nakamals, special spaces are provided for females when they are in their menstruation period.

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Announcements (Week of March 19)

General Retreat 

🌴🌴☀️Sign up for Cal Q&A retreat!!! ☀️🌴🌴

https://tinyurl.com/y9q7b2o8 What is retreat? Retreat is a mini-vacation where we go to a house near the beach to relax for a weekend! There's a lot of ~unstructured bonding time~, and retreat is a great place to get closer to other Cal Q&A members! When is retreat?April 13-15th!Deadline: Friday, April 6 at 11:59 PM

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QACON (Queer and Asian Conference) 

The 11th annual Queer and Asian Conference, “Limitless" will be happening this semester from April 27-29th! The weekend-long conference is completely free to attend, and will be packed with educational workshops, inspiring keynotes, and special events. For the registration form, as well as our mission statement and more info, please visit our website here or email us at qaconference@gmail.com!" The FB link is here. https://www.facebook.com/queerasianconference/ Please go like and share!

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QACON'18 Workshop Applications Call for Workshop Presenters!

We welcome anyone who is interested - community members, students, non-students, alumni, and faculty-- to submit a workshop proposal. If you are interested in hosting a workshop, please complete this workshop application form by Wednesday, March 21, 2018 at 11:59 PM. For further questions and information, please contact qaconference.workshops@gmail.com.

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QACON'18 Opening Night Performers Applications Call for our wonderful and talented performers!

We are inviting anyone who is interested - community members, students, non-students, alumni, and faculty-- to apply to perform during our Opening Night! Your performance can range from spoken word, musical numbers, performance art, or even ventriloquism! If you are interested in showcasing your abilities to our amazing community, please have the performer's application form completed by Friday, March 23rd, 2018 at 11:59 PM. For further questions and information, please contact qaconference.spacs@gmail.com.

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SJSU Q&A Leadership Retreat

 The 2018 Q&A SJSU Leadership Retreat is a free three-day retreat for API (Asian and Pacific Islander) LGBTQ folks and allies. Professional API-LGBTQ speakers and student facilitators will lead workshops on leadership, self-care, professional development, personal development, and API-LGBTQ intersectionality, as well as social justice. The aim of the Retreat is to cultivate a culture of learning and feed the empowerment and self-expression of community members and students. Please email Q&A with any questions! Q&A email: qna.sjsu@gmail.com

The 2018 Q&A SJSU Leadership Retreat will be held from Monday, March 26th, to Wednesday, March 28th. ***This retreat is FREE and open to all SJSU students AND community members/non-students 18 or older***Applications to attend are due on Tuesday, March 20th, 2018. In order to be accepted to the retreat, applicants must be able to attend all three days. Apply here! 

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Volunteers for SF Community Health Center

The San Francisco Community Health Center (formerly known as API Wellness) is looking for new volunteers to do HIV Counseling and testing. Volunteers would be working with Asian & Pacific Islander Men who seek other men, as well as transgender people. They would send volunteers to SF’s Department of Public Health to get certified to become an HIV Tester and Counselor. It’s a way to connect with our community here in San Francisco and gain clinical experience if you are working towards a degree in medicine. If there is anyone who is interested, please contact zeb@apiwellness.org

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LGBTQ+ Immigration Talk 

Intern for the Queer Alliance Resource Center (QARC) and historian of Queer Student Union (QSU) plans to host an LGBTQ+ Immigration Talk on Tuesday, April 10th from 7:30-9pm. If anyone would like to speak about the experiences of queer immigrants, such as issues of solidarity, homophobia/transphobia, xenophobia, and education, any interested members can contact via email at miavilla@berkeley.edu or QSU's email (qsuberkeley@gmail.com).

QSU and QARC are happy to compensate any speakers. We would also be happy to receive any referrals or suggestions for topics. I hope to amplify the voices of immigrants in the queer community and would love to have Cal Q&A's assistance in this event and in other endeavors going forward!

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TGNC Rights and Empowerment Day 

On Sat. 3/24, APIENC's Trans Justice Working Group is organizing a TGNC Rights and Empowerment Day centered on our transgender and gender non-conforming Asian and Pacific Islander community. We are holding a day-long gathering in order to empower TGNC API people in the Bay Area towards larger social change in which we all feel safe in our bodies, homes, and communities. During this event, we’re planning for multiple workshops, community building activities, and drop-in hours for TGNC API folks to eat, relax, learn, and connect with others.

Date: Saturday, March 24 

Time: 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Location: 17 Walter U. Lum Pl., San Francisco

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Queer/Trans or Questioning SSWANA Mental Health Survey 

Are you South Asian, South West Asian, and/or North African? And are you queer/trans or questioning? If so, please fill out this anonymous mental health survey by the end of April 2018! It should only take about 10 minutes. Your responses will help towards getting a queer/trans SSWANA mental health worker staffed on campus that students can easily access! Please share with your friends, and email neenamohan@berkeley.edu for any questions. Thank you! (Sponsored by the Queer Alliance Resource Center at UC Berkeley).

Link to survey: TINYURL.COM/QTSSWANA

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Queer Trans People of Color Conference 

The Queer Trans People of Color Conference is an annual conference that started at UC Berkeley back in 2006. Since then, the conference has transformed and has been hosted by different campuses throughout California. This April 6-8, we are excited to bring it back to UC Berkeley! This year's QTPOCC will include open-mics, keynotes from local and national trans organizers, and a selection of workshops facilitated by organizers throughout California. Make sure to follow our page to stay updated! We can't wait to see y'all!

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QARC & Oscar Wilde Art/Fashion Show “Looking Queer: Unbound Bodies” 

Queer Alliance Resource Center and Oscar Wilde House introduces student-led queer art and fashion show: “Looking Queer: Unbound Bodies.” Calling for QT artists to respond with resilience and in resistance against superficiality and cis- and hetero- normative society’s expectations of what it looks like to be a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. There is not one way to “look” queer, trans, and/or gender non-conforming and there’s not one way to resist through the arts. We believe the arts can be used as a tool for personal transformation and we want to provide the space for LGBTQIA+ artists to showcase their work through various mediums. We want you to have agency in your art and in your unbound body, as we hope for this to be a creatively liberating event that will provide an artistic platform for you and all of the other artists in the community to engage in community resiliency and express body positivity. If you're interested in submitting a piece and/or participating, click the link here! 

Deadline: Friday, March 23th, 2018 at 11:59pm. 

The event date is Friday, April 13 from 7 to 10 PM! 

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QARC Board Applications 

QARC Board applications for next year are out! QARC directly supports the ~15 QT orgs on campus, but generally advocates on behalf of the entire QT student body. We host queer spaces on the 4th floor of MLK, and we manage a capital campaign with bridges Multicultural Resource Center for a new permanent space in Hearst Field Annex. Come be part of this exciting, historical org as it celebrates its 50th year! Apps are due April 1st, interviews are April 5th 7-9pm. Board members each receive a stipend of $2000 (split into monthly payments). http://tinyurl.com/qarcboard2018-2019 Please email director@ucbqarc.org if you have any questions!

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LNG Engine Market | Global Industry Report, 2030

LNG Engine Market: Introduction

Transparency Market Research delivers key insights on the global LNG engine market. In terms of revenue, the global LNG engine market is estimated to expand at a CAGR of ~6% during the forecast period, owing to numerous factors regarding which TMR offers thorough insights and forecasts in its report on the global LNG engine market.

The global LNG engine market is broadly affected by several factors such as rise in stringent government regulations to reduce carbon emissions. Furthermore, several benefits associated with LNG engine are anticipated to propel the global LNG engine market in the near future.

LNG Engine Market: Dynamics

Ships run on bunker fuel, which causes high level of pollution. Greenhouse gases are also a major concern across the globe. Every year, air pollutants such as carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide, sulfur oxide, and particulate matter are released in large amounts into the environment. Governments of various countries across the world are implementing rules and regulations to reduce pollution. This is anticipated to propel the global LNG engine market.

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In 2017, the U.S. Government and the Government of Canada passed bills to formulate fuel-sulfur limits and NOx emissions in emission control areas in North America. These areas include coastal waters of up to 200 nautical miles from coasts of Alaska and Hawaii.

Vessels entering these areas must meet the requirement that fuel-sulfur concentrations should not exceed 0.10 weight%. Engines above 130 kW installed on vessels built, since 2000 must be certified to meet appropriate emission standards corresponding to the building date of vessels. Engines installed on new and modified vessels are subject to the Annex VI Tier III NOx standards.

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From January 1, 2020, member countries of the European Union have been mandated to ensure that ships in all European Union waters, except SOx, use fuels with sulfur content of no more than 0.5%. Furthermore, all ships passing through these NOx emission control areas must use defined mandatory engine standards or equivalent NOx emission reduction technologies to comply with the stringent NOx emission levels.

LNG engines can play a major role in reducing pollution, as these vessels run on liquefied natural gas. LNG engines help lower greenhouse gas emissions and provide a cost competitive fuel choice versus conventional fuels. Thus, implementation of stringent government regulations to lower emissions is estimated to drive the global LNG engine market during the forecast period.

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LNG Engine Market: Prominent Regions

The LNG engine market in Asia Pacific is projected to expand significantly during the forecast period. Asia Pacific is witnessing significant investment in LNG facilities. China, Japan, South Korea, and India are also investing substantially in LNG power generation. This is likely to propel the LNG engine market during the forecast period.

Europe held major share of the global LNG engine market in 2019. The marine industry is well-established in the region. Europe is focusing on lowering the use of fossil fuels to meet the emission targets set by governments of countries in the region. Companies and government bodies in Europe are investing significantly in renewable energy and green fuels to be emission free by 2050. This can be ascribed to propel the demand for LNG engines in the near future, thereby augmenting the LNG engine market in the region.

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LNG Engine Market: Key Players

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Russia Vs United Claims Military Stats Compared

An American skater eliminates Russia from an worldwide hockey tournament, playing the leading man with multiple excellent goals in an overtime shootout. Russia and The United Claims possess similarly combined military, actually though when in comparison, Russia consumes less than 10% on its military forces. We compare Russia and United States to see how they would match up against each other and see who would win. Let us know in the comments who you think would win the in a fight between Russia and The United States and which military comparison should we perform following!

Typical hands > Exports per capita : Typical arms transfers (1990 prices) - Exports (US$ millions) Refers to the voluntary transfer by the supplier (and therefore excludes captured weapons and weapons acquired through defectors) of weapons with a military purpose destined for the armed forces, paramilitary forces or intelligence companies of another country. These include major standard weapons or systems in six groups: ships, aircraft, missiles, artillery, armoured vehicles and guidance and radar systems (excluded are trucks, solutions, ammunition, small arms, support items, components and component technology and towed or naval artillery under 100-millimetre calibre). Numbers indicated per capita for the same yr.

During the Chilly War, and later on, the Soviet Union experienced the world's largest arsenal of chemical substance weapons, including artillery shells, bombs, and missiles that included choking agents (phosgene), nerve agents (sarin, soman, and VX), and blister agents (mustard, lewisite, and mustard-lewisite blend). There possess been accusations that the Soviet Union created a fresh course of nerve agent (Novichok), estimated to be 5-10 times more toxic than VX. Russia inherited the declared Soviet stockpile of 40,000 metric tons of CW munitions and agents stored in bulk. In November 1997, Russia ratified the CWC, but financial and other difficulties have impeded the destruction of its chemical weapons stockpile, so it is far behind the timetable specified in the treaty.

America's 1945 victory over both Germany and Japan implies that militarily and economically, it can be right now a superpower. It offers even more than half the world's oil, two thirds of its silver and the typical American family members makes 15 instances that of their Western comparative. And Usa has the atomic bomb. This weapon of mass damage helped earn success over Japan and appears to assure U . s military supremacy for decades to come. But one of America's wartime allies, Russia, provides utilized spies to gain access to the key of nuclear battle long before the first mushroom cloud over Hiroshima.

Shortly after the start of the Syrian Civil War in the spring of 2011, the U.S. imposed sanctions on Syria's government and advised president Bashar al-Assad to step down; in the meantime, Russia, a long-standing ally of Syria, continuing and improved its support for the Syrian authorities against rebels supported up by the U.S i9000. and its local comparision.

However, even the strongest ties between the two countries are problematic in nature. First, China-Russia trade remains highly imbalanced for it is usually limited to mainly three items: oil, gas and arms. The EU is usually still Russia's leading trading partner while the U.S i9000. is certainly China's (if Hong Kong is certainly ruled out). Although China is certainly Russia's second largest trading partner, Russia just rates eighth forChina, with simply 2 percent of China's total trade quantity. In various other words and phrases, although both China and Russia may dislike the Western world, China cannot sacrifice the U.S i9000. marketplace, and Russia can't provide up on European comparison.

growth of the US national personal debt, right now just under $20 trillion, and it becomes obvious that the marketing campaign rhetoric of the Trump Obama administration to make U . s Great Again” requires emergency financial measures and effective and well-thought-through Chapter 9 type bankruptcy-reorganization of the nation's debt in order to allow the United States to again become a real manufacturing economy not merely a financial speculator in debt.

The standard response to this type of query resorts to what US pressure planners call bean counting”. Typically, journalists use the yearly IISS Military Balance or a resource like Global Firepower and tallies of the quantity of males, main battle tanks, armored staff carriers, infantry combat vehicles, combat plane, artillery items, bombers, missiles, surface ships, submarines, etc. offered by each aspect in a graph.

At the time of the 2001 Nuclear Posture Review, the U.H. government came to the conclusion that it would need a long-range nuclear arsenal of 1,700 to 2,200 operationally deployed warheads. This range was later codified in the Moscow Treaty, which required the U.H. to fulfill this range of figures by the end of this 12 months. The public briefing on the 2001 study did not include specific proposals for changing the overall size of the short-range nuclear pressure. However, it did acknowledge that the U.H. needed to end up being ready to address a range of local threats in methods that would consist of U.Beds. nuclear forces.

The mass of American carriers, submarines and surface area boats would focus in the Pacific and the American indian Oceans, fighting straight against China's A2/Advertisement program and sitting down astride China's maritime transit lanes 8. Lengthy range aviation, including stealth bombers and very similar possessions, would work in both theaters simply because required.

Russia's economy is definitely roughly the size of Italy or Canada, and is definitely dependent on oil revenues to stay afloat, said Thoburn. Western countries, including the United Claims, placed sanctions on Russia when it annexed Crimea, and intervened in Ukraine and Syria. At about the same time, Russia - one of the world's top two oil suppliers - saw oil prices plummet from a high of $100 per barrel to about $40 per barrel. Despite a minor improvement in oil prices these days, Russia's economy required a beating and it is definitely still operating to rise out of a recession.

The United States discarded its oft-misunderstood two war” doctrine, intended as a template for providing the means to fight two regional wars simultaneously, late last 10 years. Designed to prevent North Korea from introducing a battle while the United Areas was involved in fighting against Iran or Iraq (or vice versa,) the idea helped give form to the Department of Defense's procurement, logistical and basing strategies in the post-Cold War, when the United States no longer needed to face down the Soviet threat. The United States backed away from the doctrine because of changes in the international system, including the increasing power of China and the expansion of extremely effective terrorist networks.

Could Beijing and Moscow put together a set of downturn 5 that would drive two different U.Beds. military services replies? Probably, but most likely not really. Each nation provides its very own goals, and functions on its very own timeline. Even more most likely, one of the two would opportunistically consider benefit of an existing situation to further more its local promises. For example, Moscow might well determine to force the Baltic State governments if the United State governments became included in a main skirmish in the Sth China Ocean 6.

At the time the NPT was concluded, the nuclear stockpiles of both the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia designated in the tens of hundreds. Starting in the 1970s, U.S i9000. and Soviet/Russian commanders discussed a series of bilateral hands control contracts and endeavours that limited, and later on helped to decrease, the size of their nuclear arsenals. Today, the United Areas and Russia each deploy even more than 1,500 tactical warheads on many hundred bombers and missiles, and are modernizing their nuclear delivery systems.

Manpower match for military assistance > Men age group 18-49 : This admittance provides the quantity of men and females dropping in the military age group range for the nation and who are not otherwise disqualified for health factors; accounts for the wellness scenario in the nation and provides a even more practical estimation of the real quantity match to provide.

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region in central Europe can be traced to Roman commander Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul (France), which he had conquered. The victory of the Germanic tribes in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest (AD 9) prevented annexation by the Roman Empire, although the Roman provinces of Germania Superior and Germania Inferior were established along the Rhine. Following the Fall of the Western Roman Empire, the Franks conquered the other West Germanic tribes. When the Frankish Empire was divided among Charles the Great’s heirs in 843, the eastern part became East Francia. In 962, Otto I became the first Holy Roman Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, the medieval German state. In the Late Middle Ages, the regional dukes, princes, and bishops gained power at the expense of the emperors. Martin Luther led the Protestant Reformation against the Catholic Church after 1517, as the northern states became Protestant, while the southern states remained Catholic. The two parts of the Holy Roman Empire clashed in the Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648), which was ruinous to the twenty million civilians living in both parts. The Thirty Years’ War brought tremendous destruction to Germany; more than 1/4 of the population and 1/2 of the male population in the German states were killed by the catastrophic war. 1648 marked the effective end of the Holy Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern nation-state system, with Germany divided into numerous independent states, such as Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Austria and other states, which also controlled land outside of the area considered as “Germany”. After the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars from 1803–1815, feudalism fell away and liberalism and nationalism clashed with reaction. The German revolutions of 1848–49 failed. The Industrial Revolution modernized the German economy, led to the rapid growth of cities and to the emergence of the socialist movement in Germany. Prussia, with its capital Berlin, grew in power. German universities became world-class centers for science and humanities, while music and art flourished. The unification of Germany (excluding Austria and the German-speaking areas of Switzerland) was achieved under the leadership of the Chancellor Otto von Bismarck with the formation of the German Empire in 1871 which solved the Kleindeutsche Lösung, the small Germany solution (Germany without Austria), or Großdeutsche Lösung, the greater Germany solution (Germany with Austria), the former prevailing. The new Reichstag, an elected parliament, had only a limited role in the imperial government. Germany joined the other powers in colonial expansion in Africa and the Pacific. By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain’s, while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I (1914–1918) against France, Great Britain, Russia and (by 1917) the United States. Defeated and partly occupied, Germany was forced to pay war reparations by the Treaty of Versailles and was stripped of its colonies as well as of home territory to be ceded to Czechoslovakia, Belgium, France and Poland. The German Revolution of 1918–19 put an end to the federal constitutional monarchy, which resulted in the establishment of the Weimar Republic, an unstable parliamentary democracy. In the early 1930s, the worldwide Great Depression hit Germany hard, as unemployment soared and people lost confidence in the government. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. The Nazi Party then began to eliminate all political opposition and consolidate its power. Hitler quickly established a totalitarian regime. Beginning in the late 1930s, Nazi Germany made increasingly aggressive territorial demands, threatening war if they were not met. First came the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, the annexing of Austria in the Anschluss and parts of Czechoslovakia with the Munich Agreement in 1938 (although in 1939 Hitler annexed further territory of Czechoslovakia). On 1 September 1939, Germany initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland. After forming a pact with the Soviet Union in 1939, Hitler and Stalin divided Eastern Europe. After a “Phoney War” in spring 1940, the Germans swept Denmark and Norway, the Low Countries and France, giving Germany control of nearly all of Western Europe. Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Racism, especially antisemitism, was a central feature of the Nazi regime. In Germany, but predominantly in the German-occupied areas, the systematic genocide program known as The Holocaust killed 11 million including Jews, German dissidents, gipsies, disabled people, Poles, Romanies, Soviets (Russian and non-Russian), and others. In 1942, the German invasion of the Soviet Union faltered, and after the United States had entered the war, Britain became the base for massive Anglo-American bombings of German cities. Germany fought the war on multiple fronts through 1942–1944, however following the Allied invasion of Normandy (June 1944), the German Army was pushed back on all fronts until the final collapse in May 1945. Under occupation by the Allies, German territories were split up, Austria was again made a separate country, denazification took place, and the Cold War resulted in the division of the country into democratic West Germany and communist East Germany. Millions of ethnic Germans were deported or fled from Communist areas into West Germany, which experienced rapid economic expansion, and became the dominant economy in Western Europe. West Germany was rearmed in the 1950s under the auspices of NATO, but without access to nuclear weapons. The Franco-German friendship became the basis for the political integration of Western Europe in the European Union. In 1989, the Berlin Wall was destroyed, the Soviet Union collapsed and East Germany was reunited with West Germany in 1990. In 1998–1999, Germany was one of the founding countries of the eurozone. Germany remains one of the economic powerhouses of Europe, contributing about one-quarter of the eurozone’s annual gross domestic product. In the early 2010s, Germany played a critical role in trying to resolve the escalating euro crisis, especially with regard to Greece and other Southern European nations. In the middle of the decade, the country faced the European migrant crisis as the main receiver of asylum seekers from Syria and other troubled regions.discovery of the Homo heidelbergensis mandible in 1907 affirms archaic human presence in Germany by at least 600,000 years ago.[1] The oldest complete set of hunting weapons ever found anywhere in the world was excavated from a coal mine in Schöningen, Lower Saxony. Between 1994 and 1998, eight 380,000-year-old wooden javelins between 1.82 and 2.25 m (5.97 and 7.38 ft) in length were eventually unearthed.[2] In 1856 the fossilized bones of an extinct human species were salvaged from a limestone grotto in the Neander valley near Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. The archaic nature of the fossils, now known to be around 40,000 years old, was recognized and the characteristics published in the first ever paleoanthropologic species description in 1858 by Hermann Schaaffhausen.[3] The species was named Homo neanderthalensis – Neanderthal man in 1864. The remains of Paleolithic early modern human occupation uncovered and documented in several caves in the Swabian Jura include various mammoth ivory sculptures that rank among the oldest uncontested works of art and several flutes, made of bird bone and mammoth ivory that are confirmed to be the oldest musical instruments ever found. The 40,000-year-old Löwenmensch figurine represents the oldest uncontested figurative work of art and the 35,000-year-old Venus of Hohle Fels has been asserted as the oldest uncontested object of human figurative art ever discovered.[4][5] [6][7] Germanic tribes, 750 BC – 768 AD Middle Ages Early modern Germany death of Frankish king Pepin the Short in 768, his oldest son “Charlemagne” (“Charles the Great”) consolidated his power over and expanded the Kingdom. Charlemagne ended 200 years of Royal Lombard rule with the Siege of Pavia, and in 774 he installed himself as King of the Lombards. Loyal Frankish nobles replaced the old Lombard aristocracy following a rebellion in 776.[46] The next 30 years of his reign were spent ruthlessly strengthening his power in Francia and on the conquest of the Slavs and Pannonian Avars in the east and all tribes, such as the Saxons and the Bavarians.[47][48] On Christmas Day, 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans) in Rome by Pope Leo III.[48] Fighting among Charlemagne’s three grandsons over the continuation of the custom of partible inheritance or the introduction of primogeniture caused the Carolingian empire to be partitioned into three parts by the Treaty of Verdun of 843.[49] Louis the German received the Eastern portion of the kingdom, East Francia, all lands east of the Rhine river and to the north of Italy. This encompassed the territories of the German stem duchies – Franks, Saxons, Swabians, and Bavarians – that were united in a federation under the first non-Frankish king Henry the Fowler, who ruled from 919 to 936.[50] The royal court permanently moved in between a series of strongholds, called Kaiserpfalzen, that developed into economic and cultural centers. Aachen Palace played a central role, as the local Palatine Chapel served as the official site for all royal coronation ceremonies during the entire Medieval period until 1531.[48][51] The Holy Roman Empire, maps The division of the Carolingian Empire by the Treaty of Verdun in 843 Territorial evolution of the Holy Roman Empire from 962 to 1806 The Holy Roman Empire at its greatest territorial extent under Hohenstaufen emperor Frederick II, 13th century http://bit.ly/2JRE8Gt

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India’s ultra-nationalist government under Prime Minister Nahendra Modi is  engaged in an aggressive face-off with China that could end in a large-scale  military conflict. Although the strip of land, called Donglang,  that is at the center of the dispute has long been acknowledged as Chinese territory  under an 1890 agreement between China and Great Britain, the Indian authorities  are trying  to block a road-building project initiated by the Chinese in the region.  In June, Indian troops crossed the border into Donglang and confronted the Chinese,  and the stand-off continues. New Delhi claims that the road, if constructed,  would give the Chinese the ability to cut off India from its northeastern provinces,  where various insurgencies  against the central government have been ongoing for years.

Legally, the Chinese are in the right: the 1890  agreement clearly gives the Chinese sovereignty in this area. Furthermore,  previous Indian governments have pledged to uphold this agreement. But the ultra-nationalist  Modi, who rose to power on the strength of a “Hindutva”  movement that invokes a vision of Indian supremacy, is playing to his domestic  constituency: Indian troops have been rushed to the border, and Modi – perhaps  emboldened by his recent talks with President Donald Trump  –  shows no signs  of backing down.

The 1890 treaty was primarily about the fate of Sikkim, an ancient Himalayan  kingdom lodged between China, India, and Indian-dominated Bhutan, directly adjacent  to Donglang: ruled by a hereditary monarch, Sikkim was ceded to the British  while the Donglang region was given to China, then ruled by the Qing dynasty.  Although close to India, Sikkim was an independent country until 1975, when  India annexed it by force. After Indian troops moved in, an “election” was held  in which over 97 percent of the 59 percent  of the population eligible to vote chose union with India. Altogether, a very  dicey situation: indeed, in 1978 then Indian Prime Minster Moraji Desair “apologized”  for the annexation, while maintaining that it is “irreversible.”

The Indians are trying to muddy the dispute by hiding behind Bhutan’s claim  to Donglang: but Bhutan is yet another case where Indian imperialism has nearly  nullified an ancient state’s sovereignty. Until 2007, when Bhutan’s absolute  monarchy was transformed into a parliamentary system, India exercised a de facto  protectorate over the country, controlling its foreign affairs. When the Bhutanese  sought to establish closer relations with China, the Indians retaliated during  the 2013 elections by cutting  off subsidized energy exports: the result was the defeat of then Prime Minister  Jigme Thinley. India accounts for 75 percent of Bhutan’s imports and is its  biggest trading partner.

India has used the same bullying tactics against Nepal, another independent  Himalayan country on the long Sino-Indian border. In 2016, after Nepal adopted  a new constitution that favored native Nepalese over Indian  immigrants, India initiated an informal blockade,  cutting off the mountainous country from vital supplies. China moved quickly  into the breach, rushing in oil, food, and other necessities. Chinese investment  in Nepal now surpasses that of India.

If we step back, and look at the larger picture, what is happening is another  episode in the ongoing encirclement of China by the US and its allies in the  region. During a recent meeting between Modi and Trump, the latter affirmed  a closer military relationship with New Delhi, and the Washington Post  reported  that the State Department “approved the $365 million sale of a C-17 military  transport aircraft to India. The administration is also set to offer a $2 billion  sale of U.S.-made unarmed drones to help in surveillance of the Indian Ocean.”

The movement that propelled Modi to power in New Delhi is no ordinary nationalist  movement: it is a militant and militaristic cult with a mass following. As  I wrote way back in 2002, warning of the danger represented by this trend:

“The rise of Hindu fundamentalism as a political force in India catapulted  the Bharatiya Janata Party to power and sought to expunge the  Gandhian pacifism of the old militantly secular Congress Party tradition, replacing  it with a new martial spirit. The idea of Hindutva, which energizes  the Hindu activists, sees India not only as a Hindu state, but as a militantly  revanchist force in the region, a nation determined to recapture its old empire.  As I explained in a previous column devoted  to this fascinating subject, the Hindutva movement has created  a whole mythology based on the idea of ethnic Indians as the  first and only pure Aryans: the swastika is an ancient Hindu symbol, and  has been revived by what I call the Hindu-fascist forces in India. The Rashtriya  Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the ideological center of Hindutva,  has a provision in its constitution that its leader must be  a blue-eyed  Sarasvat Brahmin.

“I hesitate to use the term ‘neo-Nazi’ to describe a contemporary political  movement, as it has become almost a ritualistic term of abuse. However, in this  case, the label fits precisely.”

India, I would remind you, is a member of the nuclear club. We have to ask  ourselves: would the Hindu fanatics now in charge in New Delhi hesitate to use  nukes in a war with China? I’m frankly afraid to answer my own question.

As for the Chinese, they beat the Indians once before when ongoing border disputes  escalated into violence – remember the Sino-Indian  war of 1962? – and I have little doubt that they have the capacity to do  so again. Indeed, they are evoking  this memory to remind the Indians that they’re in for another beating if  they don’t turn down the heat.

However, India didn’t have nukes until  1974, when it tested its first nuclear device. China tested its first nuclear  weapons in 1964.  This time around, in the event a large-scale Sino-Indian conflict breaks out,  who plays the nuclear card first? With China’s military advantage, it is New  Delhi that will have the incentive to put its nuclear ace on the table.

The world is revved up about North Korea’s nuclear testing, and the recent  launching of an ICBM prototype, but that danger pales before what’s happening  in the Himalayas.

The US must stop encouraging the Indians in their confrontation with China  – especially if we’re expecting Beijing to intervene on our behalf with North  Korea’s Kim Jong-un. That arms deal with New Delhi should be nullified until  and unless the Indians withdraw their forces from Donglang. And, finally, the  state of Sikkim, unlawfully  annexed by India, must be restored to full independence: India has no more  claim to Donglang than it does to Sikkim proper. Contrary to former Prime Minister  Desai, the annexation is indeed reversible – because injustice cannot be allowed  to stand on the strength of brazen coercion.

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Russia Dispatch: As Chinese Flock to Siberia’s Lake Baikal, Local Russians Growl

LISTVYANKA, Russia — When Andrei Sukhanov saw that the Chinese-owned hotel rising next door was about to obstruct the sweeping view of Lake Baikal from his small, rustic motel, he steeled himself with a shot of vodka, grabbed his chain saw and chopped down eight wooden pillars buttressing the construction.

Nothing fell down, and far from being condemned, Mr. Sukhanov was treated as a hero for standing up to the Chinese, whose expanding presence around Lake Baikal is the source of deep resentment. His actions have become a rallying cry amid a growing stream of petitions, protests and court cases aimed at blocking the Chinese around the lake and surrounding areas.

“If we let them, the Chinese will take over,” said Mr. Sukhanov, 57, who fled St. Petersburg decades ago for a bucolic life by the Siberian lake, the world’s largest, deepest body of fresh water. “They will just steal all the money and the local people will get nothing.”

President Vladimir V. Putin pivoted toward China five years ago, after the annexation of Crimea soured relations with the West. China became Russia’s new best friend, allied through trade, diplomacy and even military cooperation to counter American influence globally.

Yet, this supposed new era of Sino-Russian friendship is exhibiting pronounced strains in Listvyanka, an old resort town on the lake, as an influx of Chinese tourists and businesses stirs recurrent Russian fears of a Chinese land grab and raises concerns about polluting the lake.

At the same time the local authorities see in the flood of visitors the best hope they have for new jobs and economic development in an impoverished region.

More than 1.6 million tourists, mostly Russians, visited the region last year, according to the Irkutsk Tourism Agency; the 186,200 Chinese were the largest foreign group.

The number of Chinese jumped 37 percent over the previous year, and the surge is expected to continue, as Beijing is just a two-hour flight away, versus six hours to Moscow, 2,700 miles west.

“People understand that China is a much more powerful country and its economy is producing numbers that Russia cannot hope to achieve,” said Yuri Pronin, the editor of Baikalskiye Vesti, an independent weekly published in Irkutsk, the regional capital. “We feel this breath.”

Many Russians say Lake Baikal, which holds nearly 20 percent of the earth’s fresh surface water, is under siege.

Framed by pine forests and distant mountain peaks, the picturesque lake draws visitors both summer and winter, when even trucks can navigate across its thick, intensely blue ice.

But Listvyanka’s rudimentary infrastructure cannot cope with the sewage and trash generated by the current number of visitors, and residents shudder at the thought of tens of thousands of more Chinese.

The local authorities have dragged into court the owners of at least 10 hotels constructed with Chinese financing, accusing them of building illegally on plots designated for single-family homes or other infractions.

A district court ordered two hotels demolished earlier this year, and eight others are likely to face the same fate.

The Chinese stand accused of not only running roughshod over local residents, but also of trying to siphon off the water itself.

This winter, the construction of a new bottling plant to export water to China from a village near Listvyanka prompted more than 1.1 million Russians nationwide to sign an online petition denouncing it.

A district court in Irkutsk cited environmental concerns in halting the construction of the plant in March.

What may rankle the most, local people say, is that the Chinese are not paying business taxes.

“They do not pay us a kopeck,” Mr. Sukhanov growled. “If they paid the 20 percent required to the local budget, we would get the infrastructure and the schools that we need.”

Caught in the middle between the Chinese business interests and local residents is Aleksandr A. Shamsudinov, the mayor of Listvyanka, population 2,122.

Mr. Shamsudinov spent much of 2018 under house arrest, accused of exceeding his authority by issuing housing permits for single-family plots in the village. Many of those plots soon mushroomed into illegal guesthouses for Chinese tourists.

The three-story, 14-bedroom buildings with balconies rising on various plots were clearly not ordinary homes, Mr. Shamsudinov said. “They all said we need big houses, we have a lot of relatives who are planning to come visit,” he said.

With the construction, the character of the village began changing as quaint blue wooden cottages with white gingerbread trim were obliterated. Huge billboards, some in Chinese, advertised venues like the Las Vegas Strip Club.

The town has no central water or sewage system. Litter piles up, side roads remain unpaved and one main kindergarten is an old wooden barracks lacking indoor plumbing.

Marina Rikhvanova, an environmentalist, said she no longer drank lake water near any hamlet. Pollutants seeping into the lake cause algae blooms.

“It’s a microbe cocktail,” she said.

The mayor, a retired police officer, said the federal government should have a development plan that balances the needs of visitors and residents.

“Everybody shouts that Baikal is the pearl of Russia and a Unesco World Heritage site, but getting rid of the garbage and other environmental issues are left on the backs of the small-town mayors,” Mr. Shamsudinov said.

Farther north, Olkhon Island also attracts tourists. Yelena Kopylova has been taking in guests for some 25 years, expanding from one bedroom in her house to 10 buildings with a total of 32 rooms.

Her hotel, fully booked for the summer, accepts only Chinese groups that hire a Russian guide and local vehicles.

“This is the main source of income for young families,” Ms. Kopylova said, adding, “We have to defend the interests of our local people.”

Locals often grumble that the Chinese refer to Lake Baikal as the Northern Sea, its ancient Han name. Some are convinced that Beijing is secretly plotting to reclaim the lake and the huge, sparsely populated areas beyond, ceded to the Russian Empire in an 1858 treaty that China has long considered unfair.

For years, the only Chinese in the area were poor vendors selling cheap goods in the Shanghai Market in Irkutsk. Now, the sight of Chinese tourists tossing wads of rubles around points to how China has surpassed Russia.

The influx revived Karl Marx Street, Irkutsk’s once-derelict main shopping thoroughfare, where one jeweler is selling a gold and amber necklace for more than $6,500. A sign in Chinese promises a gift to anyone who spends more than $1,200.

The Chinese tourists themselves, mostly oblivious to the grumblings, delight in Lake Baikal.

Recently, a honeymooning couple from southern China, snacking on lake fish bought at a small outdoor market, happily declared that they had never felt so cold.

Asked why they came, the couple used a smartphone to play a hit Chinese pop song “On the Shore of Lake Baikal,” about taking your love to the lake. It has inspired countless visits.

A Chinese-born businessman, Alexei Dzhao, 37, and a Russian citizen, sings a different tune.

Last year he built two large houses in the woods above Listvyanka. His Baikal Seal Guest House was originally meant to be a private home, he said.

It is a pleasant complex with whimsical birdhouses nailed to the surrounding trees and cozy, pine-lined rooms.

Mr. Dzhao said he would do anything to legalize the place, but his building permit was revoked and he expects a demolition order. Many Chinese owners are hoping to sell before the bulldozers arrive.

“Things are not calm in Listvyanka,” said Mr. Dzhao, who plans to move to Moscow. “There is all this nationalistic tension.”