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US boosts anti-China Pacific push with embassy in Vanuatu
2News ^ | Mar 31, 2023 | Matthew Lee

Posted on 03/31/2023 2:29:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Biden administration said Friday that the U.S. will open an embassy in the South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in its latest move to blunt China’s increasing influence in the Indo-Pacific.

The new embassy in Port Vila will be the fifth diplomatic mission that the U.S. has either opened or announced that it will build in the region over the past three years as it seeks to confront what it sees as a threat or challenge from China.

“Consistent with the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, a permanent diplomatic presence in Vanuatu would allow the U.S. government to deepen relationships with Vanuatu officials and society,” the State Department said in a statement.

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1 posted on 03/31/2023 2:29:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Ha! We know this story is false.

According to Al Gore that island sank ten years ago.


2 posted on 03/31/2023 2:31:00 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: nickcarraway

Which gay ambassador are we sending?


3 posted on 03/31/2023 2:31:49 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: nickcarraway

“US boosts anti-China Pacific push with embassy in Vanuatu”

The ONLY reason that the US does the above is for REGIME CHANGE. I sure hope the government there knows that they’ve been TARGETED.


4 posted on 03/31/2023 2:34:11 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Oh screw your anti American nonsense.


5 posted on 03/31/2023 2:45:35 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

“Oh screw your anti American nonsense.”

...from someone whipped by a Ukrainian.

NO THANKS!


6 posted on 03/31/2023 2:48:46 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Williams; BobL

It does get tiresome, the same anti-America dig on every thread no matter the topic.


7 posted on 03/31/2023 2:49:12 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ansel12

“It does get tiresome, the same anti-America dig on every thread no matter the topic”

Feel free to attack the messenger, but THERE IS A REASON that African countries (Uganda and now Ghana) DO NOT like the crap we push there. My only point in posting is to warn Vanuatu that the same crap is in store for them, should they make the HORRIFIC MISTAKE of getting in bed with Biden.


8 posted on 03/31/2023 2:53:44 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

Stop your ridiculous anti American lies.


9 posted on 03/31/2023 2:58:04 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: BobL

you have no point you made something up, that the only reason we open an embassy is to overthrow the government.

Just because you’re angry and confused no one has to accept your delusions.


10 posted on 03/31/2023 2:59:51 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: BobL

You are stuck in a rut, reflexively posting against America on every thread and every topic, even in strengthing our defensive position against Communist China.

We opened an embassy and you lept in to attack America.


11 posted on 03/31/2023 3:00:12 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: BobL

you’re not a messenger you’re an idiot.


12 posted on 03/31/2023 3:00:22 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Williams

“Stop your ridiculous anti American lies.”

Get off of CNN, and GET A LIFE. Africa has told us to f-off, Indonesia has told Visa and Mastercard to F-off, and the Saudis are no longer interested in the PetroDollar.

So feel free to live in your p-whipped lies, but the BOTTOM LINE is that we (the US) are getting our a’s kicked around the world and if that doesn’t bother you, it does bother my kids and grandkids.

But yeah, you may get your WW3, but neither of us will be around to argue if it was the right thing to do.


13 posted on 03/31/2023 3:04:50 PM PDT by BobL
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To: ansel12

“You are stuck in a rut, reflexively posting against America on every thread and every topic”

See what I posted about TRUMP, it is FAR MORE pro-American than any crap from you guys.


14 posted on 03/31/2023 3:06:27 PM PDT by BobL
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To: BobL

So, just reactive angry emotion ignoring the post.

Hopefully, you at least read it.


15 posted on 03/31/2023 3:11:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: BenLurkin

Well, not quite but there is little strategic importance here. If we stationed troops on their islands they might tip over and capsize.

It could have happened to Guam as well:

Hank Johnson Worries Guam Could “Capsize” After Marine Buildup

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hank-johnson-worries-guam-could-capsize-after-marine-buildup/


16 posted on 03/31/2023 3:16:06 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: BobL

Bob, someday, and I hope next year, the criminal child molester and gansta Joe Biden will be out of power.

America needs that, and we need to go on without the democrats in power, as they’ve really ruined things.

When that day comes, we’ll need allies and partnerships and not be completely boxed in. Not every alliance or partnership right now is totally the realm of the Biden’s so we can warn them about the crap for sure, but that wouldn’t be turning their backs on us and welcoming, China, either.

China is no friend to a free people, but rather enslaves them. Biden too. That’s why our job is to get rid of him.


17 posted on 03/31/2023 3:17:27 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: nickcarraway

How about South and Central America?


18 posted on 03/31/2023 3:20:13 PM PDT by armydawg505
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To: armydawg505

Are you all aware that the South Pacific is rich in fish? Chicoms need too feed a billion people. What to do:

Make French Polynesia an independent country. Let them have control over the million square miles of fish and make the Chicoms pay for it. The French keep Tahiti-too late to take it back. We give them Hawaii in the form of an American protectorate. Restore the monarchy and remove statehood along with 2 GOP senators. Win-win.

Is Vanuatu a part of Polynesia? They’ll want to be. So will the Maori in NZ.
Gotta wash that man right outta my hair.


19 posted on 03/31/2023 3:27:45 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: ansel12

“So, just reactive angry emotion ignoring the post. Hopefully, you at least read it.”

You’re WELCOME to claim, or at least imply that Biden, and his bunch, and his bunch, has only the BEST OF INTENTIONS for the tiny country of Vanuatu, but given what us Americans have seen from Biden, the latest being the Trump indictment, not everyone here will buy into that line.


20 posted on 03/31/2023 3:28:53 PM PDT by BobL
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