Analysts: Congressional Budget Battle Gives Beijing Opening in the Pacific - New Delhi Times - India's Only International Newspaper

When Congress passed temporary funding for the U.S. government at the end of September, it left out economic assistance for two small Pacific nations that U.S. defense officials say are critical to Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy and are targets of China’s aggressive influence campaign. Palau, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands control a large swath of the…

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