Alarmed by China's success in wooing Pacific island nations, the Biden administration is proposing to spend billions to keep three of those countries in the U.S. orbit.
President Joe Biden's budget for fiscal year 2024 is photographed Thursday, March 9, 2023. As political gridlock puts the government at risk of defaulting, Biden is making an opening offer with a budget plan that would cut deficits by $2.9 trillion over the next decade a proposal that Republicans already intend to reject. – Alarmed by China’s success in wooing Pacific island nations, the Biden administration is proposing to spend billions to keep three of those countries in the U.S. orbit.
The so-called “Compacts of Free Association” deals were due to expire later this year and next, and U.S. officials say China has been trying to exploit extension negotiations for its own advantage. “China is the United States’ only competitor with both the intent to reshape the international order and, increasingly, the economic, diplomatic, military, and technological power to do it,” the White House said.
Under the Compacts of Free Association that date to the 1960s, the U.S. provides the three countries with postal services and runs their weather forecasting, air traffic control and emergency management operations. In return, the U.S. gets basing rights for military, intelligence, telecommunications and space exploration facilities.
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