Contrary to popular opinion, the United States has long been a Pacific potentate. Ever since the 19th century, when American settlers journeyed from their ...

Yet post-AUKUS momentum on the Indo-Pacific with the United States’ oldest ally has been limited. ... which are the two largest in the world. More than one million French and around two million U.S.

Nearly 100,000 of their citizens live in the United States, ... In the past, the three Pacific island states made several moves to shift away from the permanence of U.S. military controls.

Some 27,000 citizens of the Marshall Islands reside in the United States, where they have legal status under a 1986 pact. If the two countries can't renew their agreement, the Marshallese could be ...

PACIFIC PALISADES (CBSLA) — Growing tensions between the United States and Iran abroad might be starting to impact Iranian American families domestically. Darian Vaziri, a 21-year-old man from ...

Why It Matters Although these three Pacific Island states, known collectively as the Freely Associated States (FAS), are sparsely populated, they matter to the United States for three core reasons ...

Part of President Joe Biden’s rationale for withdrawing from Afghanistan was that the United States needed to focus its resources on strategic challengers rather than on intervening in region… ...

Tuvalu, a tiny Pacific nation that scientists predict will be submerged by rising seas, said it is seeking written assurance from the United States that its citizens will not be barred from entry ...

One of the most catastrophic tests conducted in the Pacific was on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, where in 1954 the largest ever nuclear weapon was tested by the United States ...

While a war between China and the United States over Taiwan is ... defense of vital U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific.” ... to China’s citizens that there is an alternative path of ...

Already, he added, a significant minority of American Samoans were citizens of the United States through descent. But for others in the territory, Hawaii, a former U.S. territory that acquired ...