PRI:

The United States is slated to get a new military base — this time in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. 

Last month, during high-level talks in Honolulu, the US Indo-Pacific Command and the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) agreed to build a new base in the island nation, an archipelago of more than 600 islands strewn across the Western Pacific, some 3,700 miles from Hawaii. 

The move is seen as another component of the Biden administration’s continued effort to increase its footprint in Oceania…

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