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  • Eastasia is the puzzling one, mainly because it's hard to figure out which way Japan would jump: rapprochement with China and a junior partnership in a new "East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere", or honorary Anglo-Saxon status and a role as Oceania's Asian "Airstrip Two".

    Orwell was wrong, but on the right track 2003

  • The frontiers of Eurasia flow back and forth between the basin of the Congo and the northern shore of the Mediterranean; the islands of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific are constantly being captured and recaptured by Oceania or by Eastasia; in Mongolia the dividing line between Eurasia and Eastasia is never stable; round the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely unihabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • [12] It is considered especially elegant if the digraph is part of the word, so if the digraph for "Eastasia" were EA, EASTWOOD would be a perfectly acceptable cryptonym. clandestine cell system.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • [12] It is considered especially elegant if the digraph is part of the word, so if the digraph for "Eastasia" were EA, EASTWOOD would be a perfectly acceptable cryptonym. clandestine cell system.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • [12] It is considered especially elegant if the digraph is part of the word, so if the digraph for "Eastasia" were EA, EASTWOOD would be a perfectly acceptable cryptonym. clandestine cell system.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • It is as though they never existed - "We've always been at war with Eastasia" - The BBC is well on the way to becoming the Ministry of Truth (Mini-true, in Newspeak), the branch of the government responsible for the production and dissemination of all information.

    The BBC are the Ministry of Truth Not a sheep 2009

  • Now we have a civilian population eager to believe the president is "our" Commander-in-Chief, increasingly pervasive government surveillance, and a "long war" against a shifting global enemy so ill-defined it might as well be Eurasia and Eastasia.

    Barry Eisler: The Ministry of Truth 2010

  • So no, we don't have quite the kind of organized Two Minutes 'Hate depicted in the novel, but it's impossible to recall the populace turning on our NATO ally France before our misadventure in Iraq, or more recently on our NATO ally Turkey over the Gaza flotilla incident, and not remember the scene in the book where a crowd instantly and obediently redirects its hostility from Eurasia to Eastasia.

    Barry Eisler: The Ministry of Truth 2010

  • Fathers are separated from their children by prison bars miles away upstate, in this land of the incarcerated, or senseless permanent wars half a world away in Eurasia or Eastasia or another designated enemy.

    David A. Love: A Tribute to Fathers and Children Forever Separated 2010

  • The book is 1,232 pages and it costs $13.57 and Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

    David Quigg: Why Doesn't Ken Auletta Want My Money? (the Case for Selling Books by the Chapter) 2010

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