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America and China, struggling to control the remote and sparsely populated islands of the South Pacific. Why?

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Mikel Reparaz, head of EITB's international area in the Solomon Islands

< p>The Pacific Ocean is an immense sea between Asia and America through which incessant crossings, underwater cables and all kinds of commercial traffic pass. That is why the powers that want to master these routes must control the islands in that immense ocean, because they are logistical bases and, in many cases, military.

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