90 minutes. [background noises] this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. For thousands of years Pacific Islanders have been masters of the seat navigating oceans by canoe guided only by the stars. With Climate Change and globalization hitting their shores they have become innovators on how to save their heritage. There are over a million and a half americans and pacific pacificisland ancestry. Over 1000 citizens from freely associated state serving in the United States armed forces. This put people to people ties at the heart of our relationship to a part of the world that has been a vital and Strategic Interests of the United States. During world war ii u. S. Navy built an airstrip what is now the nation. But today it is the peoples republic of china that is planned to rebuild the former american airstrip. Beijing is signaling policing deals to provide cybersecurity and Community Policing assistance in the region. Since the islands change their recogn
Officials in the state department the pentagon u. S. Agency for international developmen■n tes■4■;fi the pacis region. They also considered some of the challenges the island nation face including Climate Change, e and chinas presence in the region. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing is just over 90 minutes. [background noises]■ this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. For thousands of years pacificfq islanders have been masters of the seat navigating oceans by canoe guided only by the stars. With Climate Change and globalization h yitting their sh innovators on how to save their heritage. There are over a million and a half americans and pacific from freely associated state serving in the United States armed forces. This put people to people ties at the heart of our reliohi a ps been a vital and Strategic Interests of the United States. During world war ii u. S. Navy built an airstrip what is now nation. But today it is the peoples
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland this week led the United States delegation to Antigua and Barbuda for the Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States.