This string of islands would, as the name suggests, serve as a second line of defense to contain Chinese forces in the event of a major conflict, lying beyond the First Island Chain that stretches from South Korea down to the Philippines.
onsdag 19. november 2025
Pacific Islands on Front Line of Future US-China War
A think tank has released a new platform focusing on how Micronesia, a little-mentioned but strategically placed archipelago in the western Pacific, is becoming a central arena in the U.S.-China great-power competition. The region—which includes sovereign states such as Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia, as well as U.S. territories Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands—is part of what the Pentagon calls the “Second Island Chain.”
This string of islands would, as the name suggests, serve as a second line of defense to contain Chinese forces in the event of a major conflict, lying beyond the First Island Chain that stretches from South Korea down to the Philippines.
This string of islands would, as the name suggests, serve as a second line of defense to contain Chinese forces in the event of a major conflict, lying beyond the First Island Chain that stretches from South Korea down to the Philippines.
