East Asia
Geographic Region
Amid Tensions, Japan Already Won America's Respect...new attitude, at least for now. Last week, Jeffrey Bader, the director for East Asia at the National Security Council, told an audience in Washington that Hatoyama's review of the alliance is "welcome." Bader also scoffed at a quote by an... In this article: Yukio Hatoyama, Tokyo, Japan, Washington, Barack Obama, Robert Gates, Okinawa, United States, State Department, and Asia |
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boston.com - Latest news | November 03, 2009
US officials to meet Aung San Suu Kyi
...in 14 years. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake after she was driven to his hotel in Yangon, said U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Mei. The topic of their...
In this article: Burma, United States, Aung San Suu Kyi, Yangon, Washington, U.S. State Department, and All rights reserved
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Honolulu Advertiser | November 04, 2009
Top U.S. envoy meets with Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi
...Marciel, are the highest-level Americans to visit Myanmar since 1995. Earlier Wednesday, Campbell, the top State Department official for East Asia, greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake after she was driven to his lakeside hotel in Yangon where...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, State Department, Thein Sein, Yangon, Democracy, and North Korea
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Charlotte Observer | November 04, 2009
US officials visit isolated Myanmar, meet Suu Kyi
...footage of Campbell's meetings with both Suu Kyi and the prime minister. Campbell, the top State Department official for East Asia, said he told junta officials that the U.S. "is prepared to take steps to improve the relationship but...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, Yangon, Washington, U.N., and Thein Sein
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National Public Radio | October 12, 2009
Can The U.S. Succeed In Afghanistan, Pakistan?
...secretary of defense for Asia in 2007-08. He served as the national intelligence officer for East Asia in 2003-06, first at the CIA and then for the director of national intelligence. After serving in the East Asia bureau of the State...
In this article: John Nagl, John Donvan, Ralph Peters, Pakistan, United States, Center for a New American Security, Patrick Lang, and Afghanistan
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U.S. Department of State
Political and Religious Freedom in the Middle East ... in the 21st century than the partnership between India and the United States." - Full Text ...
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Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is traveling in Asia November 10 ... Department Spokesman Kelly (Nov. 4): "The United States deplores the decision by ...
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en.wikipedia.org
Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific ...
... of East Asian and Pacific Affairs within the United States Department of State. ... of the U.S. diplomatic establishment in the countries of the Asia-Pacific ...
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www.america.gov
America.gov
State Department news articles on issues of foreign policy, society and values ... As an Asia-Pacific nation, the United States will be involved in the discussions ...
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digicoll.library.wisc.edu
FRUS: Foreign relations of the United States, 1950. East Asia ...
Foreign relations of the United States, 1950. East Asia and the Pacific. Source: United States Department of State. Foreign relations of the United States, 1950. ...
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East Asia
East Asia or Eastern Asia (the latter form preferred by the United Nations) is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it covers about 12000000 km2, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia. In some contexts, Vietnam is considered part of East Asia because of the significant Chinese cultural influence it has experienced.
More than 1.5 billion people, about 38 percent of the population of Asia or 22 percent of all the people in the world, live in geographic East Asia, which is about twice the population of Europe. The region is one of the world's most populated places, with a population density of , being about three times the world average of 45 /km2. Using the UN subregion definitions, it ranks second in population only to Southern Asia.
Historically, many societies in East Asia have been part of the Chinese cultural sphere, and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from Classical Chinese and Chinese script.
Major religions include Buddhism (mostly Mahayana), Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion in China, Shinto in Japan, Shamanism in Korea, Mongolia and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia, and more recently Christianity in South Korea. The Chinese Calendar is often to root from which other East Asian calendars are derived from.
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