"The general position of the Taiwanese government has been that the defense of #Ukraine is more a harbinger of what's to come in the #Pacific than it is a distraction." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/neonliberalism/neon-liberalism-14-a-turn-toward-taiwan/

BREAKING

The Australian Govt has given Greenpeace the coordinates of a NZ bottom trawler’s coral destruction in International Waters in the South Pacific that the NZ Govt refused to reveal.

Greenpeace will head out next week to document the damage and survey the life on seamounts there in the Lorde Howe Rise area.

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/greenpeace-obtains-coordinates-of-coral-destruction-nz-government-refused-to-reveal/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=nickofnz #NZPol #auspol #pacific #coral #Fishing #ocean

Anne-Marie Brady:
A Shot Across the Bow: China Signals New Era of Sea Power in the Southwest Pacific
#Australia #NewZealand #Pacific
https://thediplomat.com/2025/02/a-shot-across-the-bow-china-signals-new-era-of-sea-power-in-the-southwest-pacific/

It was not the place of my birth that I loved,
nor the trail of her smoke nor the sun on the Forth,
nor the dark of her light nor her half-light,

but this land I have found
and the splash and the roar of her sea…

—Aileen Ballantyne, “Tusitala”
in TAKING FLIGHT (Luath, 2019)

The free exhibition “Tusitala: Pacific perspectives on Robert Louis Stevenson” is in the National Library of Scotland until 10 May 2025:

https://www.nls.uk/whats-on/tusitala/

Driftwood in the coastal section of Redwood National and State Parks today. The piece in the foreground is more than six feet in diameter. Learn more about the park at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #driftwood #waves