The U.S. aims to use the First Island Chain—comprising Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines—to restrict China's naval access to ...

Some units, such as the Japanese Self-Defense Force, are positioned inside the first island chain around China. While others, such as the Australian Defence Force and Armed Forces of the ...

When President Donald Trump called for the US to retake control of the Panama Canal during his inauguration speech in January ...

China conducted operations around Taiwan and in the East China and South China Seas, demonstrating its ability to dominate areas within the first island chain—an arc of islands and countries in the ...

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“If China wants to be economically secured as the world’s largest exporter, it wants to break out of the first island chain,” he said, adding that Beijing has been investing heavily in its navy, ...

Seoul has one of Asia’s strongest militaries and sits inside the vital “first island chain” of countries that arc off China’s coast like a parenthesis. “It begins with looking from an ...

Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note ...

(Antarctica is the continent; the Antarctic is the whole southern polar region, including the continent and island chains.) Probably the most famed American name associated with Antarctic ...