the Far East
noun
: the countries of eastern and southeastern Asia (such as China, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam)
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Soviet Policy in the Far East, 1944-1951 Mr. Beloff, who has given us an admirable history of Soviet foreign policy in the inter-war period, is less successful in the present study.
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Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
There aren’t many technology firms focused on developing network solutions that span moonshots and penalty shots, but there’s sometimes a different attitude towards innovation in the Far East where NTT originates, so this duality is possibly perceived with more credibility on home soil first.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
These were games to be negotiated rather than seized, the temperatures in the Far East important for conditioning but hardly conducive to ferocity.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
Their purchases at one point had federal officials suspecting foreign agents might be angling for access to intelligence about the nearby Travis Air Force Base, a key facility for military flights to the Far East.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Foreign Affairs, 1 Oct. 2024
There aren’t many technology firms focused on developing network solutions that span moonshots and penalty shots, but there’s sometimes a different attitude towards innovation in the Far East where NTT originates, so this duality is possibly perceived with more credibility on home soil first.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
These were games to be negotiated rather than seized, the temperatures in the Far East important for conditioning but hardly conducive to ferocity.
—George Caulkin, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
Their purchases at one point had federal officials suspecting foreign agents might be angling for access to intelligence about the nearby Travis Air Force Base, a key facility for military flights to the Far East.
—Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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“The Far East.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Far%20East. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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