The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday March 27th, 2023
Imperial Visits: US Emissaries in the Pacific by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
For some time, Washington has been losing its spunk in the Pacific. When it comes to the Pacific Islands, a number have not fallen – at least entirely – for the rhetoric that Beijing is there to take, consume, and dominate all. Nor have such countries been entirely blind to their own sharpened interests. This largely aqueous region, which promises to submerge them in the rising waters of climate change, has become furiously busy.
A number of officials are keen to push the line that Washington’s policy towards the Pacific is clearly back where it should be. It’s all part of the warming strategy adopted by the Biden administration, typified by the US-Pacific Island Country summit held last September.In remarks made during the summit, President Joe Biden stated that “the security of America, quite frankly, and the world, depends on your security and the security of the Pacific Islands. And I really mean that.”
Not once was China mentioned, but its ghostly presence stalked Biden’s words. A new Pacific Partnership Strategy was announced, “the first national US strategy for [the] Pacific Islands”.Then came the promised cash: some $810 million in expanded US programs including more than $130 million in new investments to support, among other things, climate resilience, buffer the states against the impact of climate change and improve food security.
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Clouds and stones #poem by Amir Khatib
” The clouds are flying stones, cratered, gray,
tinged with anxious redness when the sun rises,
And a very sad redness, the hour of her absence…
But the clouds keep looking down on the rocks on the ground,
She wishes to be quiet, humble and earthly like her,
Stones remain on the ground, for eternity,
Looking at the clouds and wishing they would fall,
To be like a celestial blue transcendent.”
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #037 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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