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Podcast: The Mike Hosking Breakfast
Episode: Mike's Minute: America might be able to help in the Pacific
Description: Forget Greenland – in our own backyard we have growing action in the Pacific between America and China. This is not breaking news, but the US is trying to renew its strategic compact ties with places like Palau and the Marshall Islands, and testimony in front of the House Committee on Natural Resources suggests China is waging a sustained influence campaign aimed at weakening democratic institutions and strategic alignment in the Pacific. Now this is all good news for us, given it felt like America wasn’t that overtly interested in the Pacific these past few years...