Palau Navigates US-China Rivalry As One Of Taiwan's Remaining Diplomatic Allies | CNA Correspondent

[@MJLStudios]

Palau has no military defenses of their own.... They signed an agreement that all military needs will come from US....

[@amiigose]

be america friend is fatal😊

[@バート-p1h]

@@amiigose better than Chinese dogeaters

[@amiigose]

@@バート-p1h 😂😂 better than become puppet america dog, look afganistan

[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

Navy is Philippines

[@MJLStudios]

@@バート-p1h Trailer trash comments lol

[@johnny-ih5es]

What is the national currency of Palau? Is it the USD or PHP?

[@redosorio5278]

USD

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

@@johnny-ih5es US Dollars 😊😊

[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

Some PHP

[@johnny-ih5es]

@@redosorio5278 Then, it's US territory.

[@redosorio5278]

Nope. They are independent country, they have their own sovereignty. They just a very small country with limited resources and man power that can not be support and sustain their own currency. Their location is not strategic for economic growth, They don’t have a massive manufacturing or financial cities like Singapore. Only tourism are their main sources of revenue & profit. So practically, using USD as your currency is good for the country, economically.

[@3owlpro]

Palau strip searched a Taiwan-born Chinese tourist.

[@Ellesar925]

Please correct yourself. An alliance is a commitment to mutual offensive and defensive military actions between two States. Not every International Relationship is an 'alliance'.

[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

The Country Island of Palau 🇵🇼🇵🇼🇵🇼 must have there own Navy

[@huhwhatjason]

Weaponizing tourism?

[@happymelon7129]

Why don't tell the true ? TW give 1.2billion to .. ----> 1‘’‘i’‘’‘th’‘’‘’ua‘’‘nia

[@happymelon7129]

-->which is not even --> diplomatic a11ies ==> angry many

[@happymelon7129]

instruction from the empire

[@catinbootsnow4267]

Lee Kuan-yew, a world known Singaporean leader with charming character and sharp vision, had the courage and determination to cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan and switch formal diplomatic relations to Beijing in 1990, right after China faced isolation and sanctions from the West after the Tiananmen Square event in 1989.

[@SK-lt1so]

"Courage" to recognize the illegitimate, murderous CCP mafia? Where and when did your brain become so damaged?

[@huhwhatjason]

LKY was also pragmatic enough to learn Chinese to win voters even though he, being Peranakan, didn't grow up speaking Chinese. Now that LKY is gone and Singapore no longer hides the fact that it's a colonial outpost like **** in the Middle East, I have high hopes for the SEA region. Singapore will increasingly be isolated and made irrelevant, and the entire region can prosper once the cancerous growth is finally excised.

[@nguyenlamanh2919]

@@huhwhatjason Singapore is our friend. We don’t believe in isolation, but cooperation. Outsiders will never succeed in dividing us. SEA united!!!

[@huhwhatjason]

@@nguyenlamanh2919 United against whom? Against the Vietnamese who are not just the most prolific island builders in SCS, but also occupying Amboyna Cay and Barque Canada Reef which are rightfully Malaysia's? Against the Philippines that is occupying Commodore Reef which belongs to Malaysia , the Philippines which have the gall to claim the entire continental shelf and encroaching on Sabah?

[@JunBermz]

@@huhwhatjasonSabah is under the Sultan of Sulu. You, guys, should seek due process in UNCLOS and let them decide.

[@DEFENDERNZ]

President Whipps is onto it. China demands that everyone follows a principle that it created to serve itself and itself only. China doesn't respect other countries' principles but bribes, coerces and blackmails poorer countries to follow Beijings orders. Palau people who want China in, and even those who want China & Taiwan to "mend their differences" need to understand that Taiwan knows a hell of a lot more about just how China works than they ever will. You only have to look at Hong Kong to see what would happen to Taiwan and her people if China did have it's way. China always speaks with a forked tongue - beware the dragon! Taiwanese are a peace loving happy lot, they don't deserve what China has in mind. The Palauan President has the long term interests of his people at heart, this is clear.

[@dinte215]

The one China principle was made by both US and Republic of China, to stop the world from recognising Peoples Republic of China. This changed in the 1970s when the world recognised mainland as the legitimate government of China and Taiwan as defeated rebels. Even the US switched recognition

[@mutucurry9071]

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[@tedwong7037]

Palau is a soverign state? I wanna laugh

[@nueat6]

Palau gained full sovereignty in 1994 when it entered into a Compact of Free Association with the United States

[@tedwong7037]

@@nueat6 can it make its own decision without permission from the US?

[@nueat6]

@@tedwong7037 what do you think sovereignty means?!

[@smauerungel6484]

Do you know what freedom means?

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

Palau is usually part of the Philippines when the Malolos Congress appointed a representative, Isidro Tiongco 😊😊 Prior to this, Palau was part of Spanish East Indies which is composed of the Philippines, Marianas Islands and Guam, a opposite of Indonesia’s Dutch East Indies 😊😊 Today, Palau and the Philippines are allies but in military agreements, it was seperated as Palau signs the Free Association Agreement or Compact of Free Association with the United States since 1994 😊😊

[@smauerungel6484]

That appointed representative was never elected into position by the natives. Filipinos like to bring this up without acknowledging that the congress your referring to is not acknowledged nor is it known by 99.99 percent of the native Palauan Population.

[@ibrrich6730]

Palau and Taiwan should just join ASEAN, make more economic friends

[@bu3bu4]

Taiwan has no chance of joining ASEAN

[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

Yes

[@jo5128]

wtf they talking palau?????????

[@drkarim-kq9md]

Friend of the us?Hahaha royally fucked up!!!

[@abeautifulday9908]

❤

[@rpaxso7012]

Palau is part of Philippines during Spanish Occupation...

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

Yeah and in the First Philippine Republic when Malolos Congress has a delagate for Palau, Isidro Tiongco 😊😊

[@huhwhatjason]

An entire nation named after the long dead king of a foreign occupier filled with people desperately claiming Spanish ancestry instead of being proud of their actual seafaring Austronesian ancestry.

[@redosorio5278]

Also Guam is part of Philippines during Spanish period.

[@darwinqpenaflorida3797]

@@redosorio5278 yes part of Spanish East Indies 😊😊

[@smauerungel6484]

@@darwinqpenaflorida3797 That appointed representative was never elected into position by the natives. Filipinos like to bring this up without acknowledging that the congress your referring to is not acknowledged nor is it known by 99.99 percent of the native Palauan Population.

[@hkkatca64]

Funny

[@ellabrad3886]

Palau used to be part of the Philippines in the early years

[@smauerungel6484]

Keep pretending.

[@markanthonymianacyberworld420]

Palau is in Philippines Sea 🇵🇭 It is former part of the Philippines since Spanish Time to Commonwealth of the Philippines (U.S )

[@smauerungel6484]

No

[@stevewu1920]

看成了 pulau, 学马来文不会英文😢

[@heylo6604]

Indonesia has many 17,000 islands and many languages . If these many parts were behaving like taiwanese back then..we could see forever civil wars for independence probably till today. Luckily, 1928 long before Indonesia was formed as a "new " country in 1945 those many parts of Indonesia decided to become as one nation, one language and ONE "island". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youth_Pledge. In 1965 in Indonesia during political unrest, many Chinese immigrants (newly due to civil wars between national & comunist china), were slaughtered in Indonesia.. as a result due to competition/rivalry of both political system they called democratic (U.S.A) & communists (mainland china). Taiwanese don't know how Indonesian chinese immigrants suffering in 1965 because of their stubborness adding fuel to the rivalry between China & U.S unlike Japanese that solemnly accept defeat to U.S after atomic bomb (probably Taiwanese want the same ending ?) So I suggests to taiwanese.. don't be so selfish , no war is better then winning the war. Let's see if you really are in worse conditions in the future under mainland's rule..then from there you can rise up. I did respect U.S. and western countries, not anymore now. Too simplistic. This world is full of unknown . Becareful of what you want. You are dragging the whole world to abbyss if war breakout. The consequences will be received by many countries. Wondering if you know Jesus' word how to respond when somebody asking/robbing for your clothes ?

[@mutucurry9071]

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[@bobChristianson]

Palau has been the Colony of the West for over 300 years - suffers same fate like Philippines Guam Hawaii till today