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> Back in 2016, the Solomon Islands government signed a deal with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei to lay a cable to Australia.
> To push out the arrangement Solomon Islands had with Huawei Marine, Australia paid for most of the Coral Sea Cable, which connects Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and Honiara in the Solomon Islands to Sydney.
> The contract for Huawei Marine would have led to a cable between Honiara and Sydney being laid, which would have meant Chinese hardware had been connected to the backbone of Australia's domestic internet infrastructure.
> "That was seen as a red line that Australia would not cross and so we jumped in with a better deal, providing the cable as a grant that would be implemented with a procurement partner of Australia's choosing - that wouldn't be Chinese," director of the Lowy Institute's Pacific Island Program Jonathan Pryke said.
> This was at a time when Australia had just banned Huawei from its 5G and NBN networks.
> Huawei Marine also bid on the East Micronesia cable project that would have seen Nauru, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia connect, via several other cables, to Guam, but the US reportedly had concerns about the Chinese firm's involvement.
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A website about the US Armed Forces states in part βFor enlistment purposes, citizens of the United States include citizens of Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Marianas Islands, American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, as well as the 50 states.β, but the Wikipedia entry listing the US territories does not include the Federated States of Micronesia, nor the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
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