By 2013, the report suggests that the Pacific Rim region will boast more millionaires than North America.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The Pacific rim is an enormous region with very few U.S. bases.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

Spengler attributes this poke in the eye to a cold calculation by the Pacific rim types that the United States is no longer the region's dominant economic power.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's Global Makeover

For three decades the Pacific Rim was a vibrant, expanding region.

FORBES: Fact and Comment