The USS Abraham Lincoln Battle Group along with ships from Australia, Chile, Japan, Canada, and Korea speed towards Honolulu in RIMPAC 2000.

The Pacific Rim refers to the countries and cities located around the edge of the Pacific Ocean. There are many economic centers around the Pacific Rim, such as Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Manila, Los Angeles, Taipei, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Auckland, Santiago, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Portland, and Vancouver. Honolulu is the headquarters of various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations of the Pacific Rim including the East-West Center, Institute of Asian Research In addition, the RIMPAC exercise is coordinated by United States Pacific Command which is headquartered in Honolulu. RIMPAC 2000 Abraham Lincoln Battlegroup, official USN photo by Gabriel Wilson File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... RIMPAC 2000 Abraham Lincoln Battlegroup, official USN photo by Gabriel Wilson File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), nicknamed Abe, is the fifth Nimitz-class supercarrier in the United States Navy. ... The Abraham Lincoln battle group during the 2000 RIMPAC exercises A carrier battle group (CVBG) consists of an aircraft carrier (CV) and its escorts. ... Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ... Aircraft carriers and USS Abraham Lincoln speed towards Honolulu during RIMPAC 2000. ... Short name Statistics Location map Map of location of Seoul. ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... Nickname: Motto: Linisin Ikarangal Maynila Map of Metro Manila showing the location of Manila Coordinates: 14°35 N 121° E Country Region Districts 1st to 6th districts of Manila Barangays 897 Incorporated (city) June 10, 1574 Government  - Mayor Alfredo Lim (2007-2010; GO)  - Vice Mayor Isko Moreno (AM/PDP-Laban... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Nickname: Coordinates: , Country Region City seat Xinyi District (信義區) Government  - Mayor Hau Lung-bin (KMT)1 E9 Area  - City 271. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ... This article is about the Australian city; the name may also refer to City of Melbourne or Melbourne city centre. ... For other uses, see Brisbane (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Auckland (disambiguation). ... Location of Santiago commune in Greater Santiago Coordinates: , Region Province Foundation February 12, 1541 Government  - Mayor Raúl Alcaíno Lihn Area 1  - City 22. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... Flag Seal Nickname: Americas Finest City Location Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates , Government County San Diego Mayor City Attorney         City Council District One District Two District Three District Four District Five District Six District Seven District Eight Jerry Sanders (R) Michael Aguirre Scott Peters Kevin... Nickname: Location of Portland in Multnomah County and the state of Oregon Coordinates: , Country State County Multnomah County Incorporated February 8, 1851 Government  - Mayor Tom Potter[1]  - Commissioners Sam Adams Randy Leonard Dan Saltzman Erik Sten  - Auditor Gary Blackmer Area  - City 376. ... For other uses, see Vancouver (disambiguation). ... Honolulu as seen from the International Space Station Honolulu is the largest city and the capital of the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. ... “NGO” redirects here. ... The East-West Center in Mānoa was a project of late Hawaii Governor John A. Burns to promote Asia Pacific cultural and economic cooperation. ... The Institute of Asian Research (website) at University of British Columbia is a research institute founded in 1978 and has been the foremost research centre in Canada for the study of Asia. ... Aircraft carriers and USS Abraham Lincoln speed towards Honolulu during RIMPAC 2000. ... Emblem of the United States Pacific Command New emblem: [1] The United States Pacific Command (USPACOM), led by the Commander, Pacific Command (CDRUSPACOM), is the supreme military authority for the various branches of the Armed Forces of the United States serving within its area of responsibility (AOR). ...

The region has great diversity — with the economic dynamism of Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore; the technological expertise of Japan, Korea and the western United States; the natural resources of Australia, Colombia, Canada, Mexico, the Philippines, the Russian Far East and the United States; the human resources of China and Indonesia; the agricultural productivity of Australia, Chile, New Zealand, the Philippines, and the United States among others. By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ... This article is about the Korean peninsula and civilization. ... Far Eastern Federal District (highlighted in red) Russian Far East (Russian: Д́альний Вост́ок Росс́ии; English transliteration: Dalny Vostok Rossii) is an informal term that refers to the Russian part of the Far East, i. ...

Non-Economic Significance

Some theorists opine that with the established centers of industrialism in Europe and eastern North America apparently stagnating relative to the developing world, especially in Asia, the center of world economic activity may refocus on the Pacific Rim, with a consequent decline in the Western countries surrounding the Atlantic. This notion arose in the late 1980s and 1990s, when various hitherto underdeveloped Asian economies such as Thailand, Malaysia and South Korea began to rapidly modernize and grow at phenomenal rates. Before this time the only major industrialized economy in the region had been Japan, somewhat isolated from the major developed areas of the world, and at least partly dependent on export trade with Europe and North America to maintain its westernized living standards.

The sudden appearance of the Asian Tigers, as the newly developing countries became known, drew the attention of the West to the region, and opened the possibility that the old economic world order might be under threat from these dynamic young economies. The Pacific Rim concept represented a hope that these growing Asian economies might be drawn into a relationship with other forward-looking economic centers bordering the Pacific, like Australia, California, and the Pacific Northwest, and thereby rescue at least some First World countries from economic oblivion. In the early optimism of the Internet boom, the obvious technology synergies between Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia, and the well-established technology heartlands of Seattle and San Francisco strongly supported this idea. The East Asian Tigers, sometimes also referred to as Asias Four Little Dragons, referred to the economies of Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and industrialization between the early 1960s and 1990s. ... The Pacific Northwest from space The Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. ... The terms First World, Second World, and Third World were used to divide the nations of Earth into three broad categories. ...

The Pacific Ocean remains a important logistical barrier, not least by separating the western and eastern parts of the Rim by 8 timezones and the International Date Line. It contains negligible markets itself; a typical air crossing between population centers is 15 hours non-stop, a sea crossing by the fastest container ships is of the order of 11-12 days. It takes less time to fly even from Europe to California than it takes from China, and even less from Europe to the rest of North America. Moreover, the cultural discontinuity between East Asia and other countries notionally included in this grouping (such as the Americas, Australia and New Zealand) has proved less easy to bridge than some might have expected^{[citation needed]}. The expansion of the European Union and the modernization of its new members in Eastern Europe is to some extent reinvigorating the North Atlantic region. South American economies bordering the Atlantic are also now enjoying steady growth after years of instability, particularly in Venezuela, Brazil and Argentina. So perhaps it is now less easy to forecast a definitive shift towards the Pacific Rim than previously thought. TimeZone is an Internet forum for discussion of watches and horology. ... “Date line” redirects here. ... East Asia Geographic East Asia. ... Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange),members of the Warsaw pact (light orange), and other former Communist regimes not aligned with Moscow (lightest orange). ...

Between the mid-1990s and the early years of the 21st century, the "Asian Tiger" boom suffered a number of setbacks, beginning with the Asian financial crisis of 1997, through the "dot-com" crash, to the SARS epidemic of 2003. In the aftermath of these problems, the only clearly discernible economic trend has been the meteoric rise of the PRC as a manufacturing giant. Together with the parallel rise and sophistication of the Indian economy, the China boom has largely eclipsed the Pacific Rim idea. Several factors would seem to argue for an alternative prognosis: The Asian financial crisis was a financial crisis that started in July 1997 in Thailand and affected currencies, stock markets, and other asset prices in several Asian countries, many considered East Asian Tigers. ... Sars may refer to any of the following: Severe acute respiratory syndrome, commonly abbreviated as SARS Michael Sars, a Norwegian biologist, father of Georg Sars Georg Sars, a Norwegian biologist, son of Michael Sars Special Administrative Regions, commonly abbreviated as SARs Sars, Perm Krai, an urban settlement in Perm Krai... Peoples Republic of China (PRC) and Republic of China (Taiwan) For other meanings, see China (disambiguation). ...

• communications between the Asian manufacturing centers and the markets of Europe, Africa and the Middle East are perhaps more straightforward than those across the Pacific (for instance, one country - Russia - spans the Eurasian continent, having borders with both China and the EU)
• long-standing relationships between European countries and various Asian and African countries are stronger (if not always more amicable), than those within the synthetic partnership of the Pacific Rim
• the cultural contrast between traditional East Asian societies and Europe is less stark than that with North America, having been filtered through millennia of contact and interchange, and is graduated across the expanse of Eurasia
• the former Soviet-bloc countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, while still not entirely politically stable, are now modernizing and will soon become a significant economic force
• there is a strong cultural link between Europe and the Americas, making trade and co-operation across the Atlantic considerably easier than across the Pacific
• 72% of the world's population lives in Eurasia, 85% in Eurasia-Africa, including the world's largest single "First World" market (the EU, with a population around 450 million)

In this light it seems equally possible that if the world's economic center-of-gravity is going to move anywhere, it is to South and East Asia, rather than to a nebulous grouping of widely separated countries around the Pacific. On the other hand, the increasing globalisation of world trade might lead one to conclude that in the long run there will be no single economic focus at all. For other uses, see Eurasia (disambiguation). ... A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... Globalization is a term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that are the result of dramatically increased trade and cultural exchange. ...

Locations

The Pacific Rim National Park is located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Pacific Rim National Park is a Canadian national park made up of three separate regions: Long Beach, the Broken Group Islands, and the West Coast Trail. ... Vancouver Island is separated from mainland British Columbia by the Strait of Georgia and the Queen Charlotte Strait, and from Washington by the Juan De Fuca Strait. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour Without Sunset (diminishment)) Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo - Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 36 - Senate seats 6 Confederation July 20, 1871 (6th province) Area  Ranked 5th - Total 944,735...

Bibliography

• Clausen, A. W. The Pacific Asian Countries: A Force For Growth in the Global Economy. Los Angeles: World Affairs Council, 1984. ED 244 852.
• Cleveland, Harlan. The Future of the Pacific Basin: A Keynote Address. New Zealand: Conference on New Zealand's Prospects in the Pacific Region, 1983.
• Gibney, Frank B., Ed. Whole Pacific Catalog. Los Angeles, CA: 1981.
• "The Pacific Basin Alliances, Trade and Bases." GREAT DECISIONS 1987. New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1987. ED 283 743.
• Rogers, Theodore S., and Robert L. Snakenber. "Language Studies in the Schools: A Pacific Prospect." EDUCATIONAL PERSPECTIVES 21 (1982): 12-15.
• Wedemeyer, Dan J., and Anthony J. Pennings, Eds. Telecommunications--Asia, Americas, Pacific: PTC 86. "Evolution of the Digital Pacific." Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Telecommunications Council: Honolulu, Hawaii, 1986. ED 272 147.
• West, Philip, and Thomas Jackson. The Pacific Rim and the Bottom Line. Bloomington, Indiana, 1987.

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External links

• Teaching about the Pacific Rim
• Institute of Asian Research : http://www.iar.ubc.ca