China has dangled security agreements and cooperation on communications and cybersecurity before 10 Pacific nations. The Federated States of Micronesia has warned them not to go along with China. The World’s host Marco Werman interviews Yun Sun, a China policy expert at the Stimson Center about China’s influence campaign in the Pacific.
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