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The Pentagon has been trying to pivot to the Pacific for years now. Under President Donald Trump 2.0, who is focused on China, it just might happen. It’s a complicated body of water with dozens of players and a bloody history. One where Beijing is increasingly asserting itself.
Here to walk us through some of it is Angry Planet producer and Honolulu Star-Advertiser reporter Kevin Knodell. He’s just back from the Philippines where he spent two weeks reporting on a joint exercise between the U.S. and its allies in the Pacific.
- Balikatan
- Training exercises as signalling
- How 40 years of Balikatan tells the story of U.S.-Philippines relations
- “There are definitely some places where it is about the fish.”
- The Chinese Maritime Militia
- Duterte vs Marcos in 2025
- Why America doesn’t understand China
- Russia’s imperial history in the Pacific (Kevin misspoke here, it’s Fort Elizabeth not Fort Alexandria)
- Why people like Pete Hegseth
- The Nine-Dash line
- The century of humiliation
- Checking up on Red Hill
Hawaii troops forge alliances in Philippines
Army, allies ponder Pacific role
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