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Esper visit to tiny Palau highlights US-China competition

by AP National Security Writer
| August 26, 2020 10:03 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — No nation is too small or too distant from Washington, it seems, to be excluded from the Trump administration’s campaign to counter China’s efforts to supplant America as the dominant Pacific power.

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