With a new multi-billion dollar aid package agreed, the U.S. is trying to keep up with China in a strategically important region.
President Joe Biden stands with leaders of Pacific Island nations outside the White House for the U.S.-Pacific Islands Forum Summit, September 25, 2023. Credit: The White House
The small island countries that dot the vast Pacific Ocean are sparsely populated and hard to pinpoint on a map. Yet in recent years they have become an arena for great power competition between the United States and China.
An excerpt from the press statement on the recent funding package, March 9, 2024. Credit: State Department
What the Pacific island countries lack in landmass, they compensate for in their sway over large parts of the ocean thanks to their maritime boundaries, maki
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