China's three decades of unprecedented growth and military modernisation, coupled with US global overreach and budget burdens, signal a considerable shift in greatpower hegemony in the Indo-Asia Pacific (IAP).

Oh, yeah, I thought, she was probably getting pretty damn proximitous, or whatever the word was, with that Mike.

If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.