As the world commemorates Global Tourism Resilience Day on February 17th, the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) took a significant step forward in its commitment to sustainable tourism and climate resilience. In alignment with this global initiative, FSM is .
The Republican chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee said on Friday he supported funding for U.S.-allied Pacific Island nations as a way to counter the influence of China, and would push to include them in any supplemental security aid bill. "That's such a critical part of our countering the malign influence of China, with the island nations that they're buying off, as you know, one by one," Representative Michael McCaul said at meeting with journalists sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor. The Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands and Palau agreed to new 20-year funding programs with the United States last year under which Washington provides economic assistance, while gaining exclusive military access to strategic swaths of the Pacific that China covets.
The European Union will host its third Indo-Pacific forum in Brussels this week, but the world's top superpowers are not invited. Neither China nor the United States have been asked to a gathering of what is expected to be more than 70 foreign ministers on Friday, despite their outsize role in the region's economic and security landscape, according to several sources familiar with the event. Beijing's absence is no surprise, but the omission of the US has raised some eyebrows. Do you have questi
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