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In the next few months, Washington faces a test of its commitments in the Pacific: ratification of updated Compacts of Free Association with Palau, the Marshall Islands, and the Federated States of Micronesia. This will be no easy task since the Biden administration is asking the Congress to quickly pass over $7 billion in support for these three countries shortly after imposing new spending caps.

The Biden administration hosted the first-ever U.S.-Pacific Island Country Summit in Washington, D.C. on September 28–29, bringing together more than a dozen Pacific Island leaders and other key observers to discuss areas of shared interest, including climate change, maritime security, and economic development. The summit came in tandem with the White House’s release of its

Having learned some difficult lessons from the clinical shortages that have accompanied the Covid-19 pandemic, Connecticut’s General Assembly passed two important pieces of legislation...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the massive Red Hill Fuel Depot shuttered and abandoned, a reversal from the Pentagon’s attempt to appeal a Hawaii order to close the World War II-era compound, the Pentagon announced on Monday. In a memo to DoD leadership and U.S. combatant commanders, Austin said the decision to close the […]