Island Nations Key to U.S. Maintaining Position as Pacific Power
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 28, 2023
USS Benfold (DDG-65) is at anchor off Koror, Republic of Palau in 2012. US Navy Photo
The Freely Associated States lying between Hawaii and the Philippines are crucial to the United States remaining a Pacific power, the special envoy to these three island nations said Friday.
To China, the Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia “are the Second Island chain” in defining its historic territorial claims across the Pacific, Joseph Yun said. “Anyone with ambitions wants to control waterways . . .
