Asia Pacific Bulletin Asia Pacific Bulletin
The Open Gap in the “Free and Open” Indo-Pacific The Open Gap in the “Free and Open” Indo-Pacific
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Lance D. Jackson

Part of the Special Series on US Indo-Pacific Strategy: Perspectives from Allies, Partners, and Across the Indo-Pacific


Number 664
Dr. Kennneth Gofigan Kuper, Associate Professor at the University of Guam’s Micronesian Area Research Center and Director of the Pacific Center for Island Security, explains that "[t]he native inhabitants of Guam… have not been given the freedom to exercise their right to self-determination."
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"For many of us in Guam, a free and open Indo-Pacific cannot be fully accomplished without resolving the paradox of the United States maintaining a modern-day colony even though the local government has supported moving forward with a decolonization process."


Part of the Special Series on US Indo-Pacific Strategy: Perspectives from Allies, Partners, and Across the Indo-Pacific


Number 664
Dr. Kennneth Gofigan Kuper, Associate Professor at the University of Guam’s Micronesian Area Research Center and Director of the Pacific Center for Island Security, explains that "[t]he native inhabitants of Guam… have not been given the freedom to exercise their right to self-determination."
for additional titles in the
Asia Pacific Bulletin

"For many of us in Guam, a free and open Indo-Pacific cannot be fully accomplished without resolving the paradox of the United States maintaining a modern-day colony even though the local government has supported moving forward with a decolonization process."