Blue Squares on the Chessboard: The History and Geopolitics of the Pacific Islands
The Asia Chessboard
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The Pacific Islands as Shapers of Nation Building
Taus: Should we be thinking about the pacific islands history as really one of much greater agency and leadership and nation building than we have? Y i think so. One thing that i mean to use the example of samoa, which, ah, you're ahead, the longest sustained camp ain against colonialism during the war in the world,. Not just by pacific standards. And this movement was called the mal movement, m a u. It means sstance in samon. And what that movement was was a non violent so the samons. So those ideas of non violent resistance and these moral campaigns aan were the's massive a symmetries of power between an unarmed colon
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