The most aid-dependent countries—the Freely Associated States, including Marshall Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia—happen to be among the most strategically located for US resistance to possible Chinese aggression against Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. Maintaining aid to them is doubly important.
Center for Maritime Strategy
Nicholas Weising
External Source: The Strategist
The most aid-dependent countries—the Freely Associated States, including Marshall Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia—happen to be among the most strategically located for US resistance to possible Chinese aggression against Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines. Maintaining aid to them is doubly important.
The full article is available at The Strategist
Nicholas Weising, Program Associate