Why Should We Care About what the Pacific Islands Think?
“The center had long been affiliated with CIA activities in the Asia-Pacific region. Barack Obama's mother Ann Dunham worked on behalf of a number of CIA front operations, including the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii” - East-West Center
“The Center supports the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the U.S. Pacific Command by developing and sustaining relationships among security practitioners and national security establishments throughout the region. DKI APCSS’ mission is to build capacities and communities of interest by educating, connecting, and empowering security practitioners to advance Indo-Pacific security. It is one of the Department of Defense’s five regional security studies centers.” - Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Financial Investigative Reporting and Mentorship Initiative
East-West Center (CIA), Report for the World (The GroundTruth Project, Google News Initiative, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Microsoft, JournalismFund.eu), the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), USAID
Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Sāmoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.
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During World War II, the Pacific Islands involved in major battles included Guam, Wake Island, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands (particularly Guadalcanal), the Marshall Islands (like Kwajalein and Eniwetok), the Mariana Islands (Saipan and Tinian), Iwo Jima, and Okinawa; these were key locations where the Allied forces, primarily the United States, fought against the Japanese military through an "island hopping" strategy to gradually push closer to Japan itself. - Google
[ASPI] Conflicting interests and geopolitical competition in Pacific deep sea mining interests and geopolitical competition in Pacific deep sea mining - https://www.bairdmaritime.com/offshore/undersea-mining/opinion-conflicting-interests-and-geopolitical-competition-in-pacific-deep-sea-mining
ASPI funding (Australia, Europe, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Netherlands, New Zealand, Amazon, nMicrosoft, Twitter, Facebook, Google, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman , Raytheon, Thales Australia, American Chamber of Commerce, Center for Strategic and International Studies, German Marshall Fund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
Australian think tank ASPI found linked to prison labor, human trafficking
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