Asia-Pacific

Asia Pacific English Alternative forms en APAC en Asia Pacific Adjective - Of or pertaining to the part of the world in or near the western Pacific Ocean, typically including much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. en 1964 w:John F. Kennedy Where We Stand w:A Nation of Immigrants https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran0000kenn/ Revised and Enlarged w:Harper & Row 64-7830 899031989 81 https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran0000kenn/page/81/ A special discriminatory formula is now applied to the immigration of persons who are attributable by their ancestry to an area called the Asia-Pacific triangle. This area embraces all countries from Pakistan to Japan and the Pacific islands north of Australia and New Zealand. Usually, the quota under which a prospective immigrant must enter is determined by his place of birth. However, if as much as one-half of an immigrant’s ancestors came from nations in the Asia-Pacific triangle, he must rely upon the small quota assigned to the country of his ancestry, regardless of where he was born. This provision of the law should be repealed. 1 July 2022 Amy Qin; Austin Ramzy Labeled a ‘Challenge’ by NATO, China Signals Its Own Hard-Line Worldview https://web.archive.org/web/20220701145045/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/01/world/asia/china-nato.html Adding to that concern, the NATO summit included, also for the first time, the leaders of four Asia-Pacific countries: South Korea, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. 20 October 2025 Agence France-Press in Washington Trump says China ‘doesn’t want’ to invade Taiwan and reaffirms trust in Xi https://web.archive.org/web/20251020180519/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/20/trump-china-taiwan-invasion-xi-jinping Trump will hold his first meeting with Xi of his second term when the leaders of the world’s two largest economies visit South Korea later this month for an Asia-Pacific summit. Proper noun 1 The part of the world in or near the western Pacific Ocean, typically including much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. en 2015 w:Dick Cheney; w:Liz Cheney Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_m7b2/ w:Threshold Editions 978-1-5011-1541-7 935894711 26650505M 222 https://archive.org/details/unset0000unse_m7b2/page/222/ If current trends continue, according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, by 2020 the Chinese could have more than 350 submarines and missile-equipped surface ships in the Asia-Pacific. By contrast, the U.S. Navy projects that it will have 67 submarines and surface ships “stationed in or forward deployed to” the Asia-Pacific by 2020. Coordinate terms en Indo-Pacific en Pacific Rim Translations part of the world in or near the western Pacific Ocean Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 亞太地區 Yàtàidìqū, abbreviation cmn 亞太 Yà-Tài Finnish: fi Aasian ja Tyynenmeren alue French: fr Asie-Pacifique m f Indonesian: id Asia Pasifik Japanese: ja アジア太平洋地域 Ajia-taiheiyō chiiki Korean: ko 아시아 태평양 지역 Malay: ms Asia Pasifik Polish: pl Azja-Pacyfik m f Spanish: es Asia-Pacífico Tagalog: tl Asya-Pasipiko Thai: th เอเชียแปซิฟิก ee-chiia bpɛɛ-sí-fík Vietnamese: vi Châu Á Thái Bình Dương Further reading pn en Asia Oceania