USS Benfold (DDG-65) is at anchor off Koror, Republic of Palau in 2012. US Navy Photo
This post has been updated to correct that Yun was speaking at the Hudson Institute on Friday.
The Freely Associated States lying between Hawaii and the Philippines are crucial to the United States remaining a Pacific power, the special envoy to these three island nations said Friday.
To China, the Republics of the Marshall Islands and Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia “are the Second Island chain”...
https://news.usni.org/2023/04/28/island-nations-key-to-u-s-maintaining-position-as-pacific-power