The Importance of America’s Pacific Family
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The Importance of America’s Pacific Family

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After years of negotiations, the third iteration of the Compacts of Free Association – Compact III – between the United States and the countries of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, are nearing completion. The COFA Amendments Act was signed into law in the United States on March 9, shortly after it was completed in Palau and FSM, and it is currently undergoing public consultation in RMI, with approval expected within weeks. After the Spanish-American war, the United States took Guam, and Germany bought the rest from Spain. In 1914, Japan took Germany’s possessions during World War I, and was eventually awarded them as the South Seas Mandate by the League of Nations.

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Politics Risk Derailing One of America’s Most Important Strategic Agreements
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Politics Risk Derailing One of America’s Most Important Strategic Agreements

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