#pacific
2 posts tagged pacific.
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Two hundred dead in a week of drug-boat strikes
The US military's Pacific drug interdiction campaign has killed over 200 people in a single week, raising questions about proportionality, legal authority, and the militarisation of counter-narcotics policy.
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Honiara turns the page, and Beijing notices
The fall of Solomon Islands prime minister Jeremiah Manele is a small Pacific story with a large geopolitical implication: Chinese client states are not as locked in as their patron pretends.