China has quietly extended its military reach far across the Pacific by building dozens of ports, airports, and communications projects at key points in a vast region that could shut out the US and its allies in the event of war, according to this new report “China’s Dual-Use Infrastructure in the Pacific” (sinopsis.cz/wp-content/upl).
The projects appeared civilian in nature but were in reality "strategic nodes" stretching about 3,000 miles, from Papua New Guinea immediately north of US ally Australia, to Samoa, which lies about 40 miles away from the US territory of American Samoa in Polynesia. The remote, scattered islands of the Pacific were once crucial to American warfighting strategy in World War II, and they could play a role in the next global conflict, too.
The growing logistics network in the South Pacific — built mostly by 
state-owned companies with ties to its defense sector — is being overlooked…
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