Last week, China's foreign minister Wang Yi met with ten Pacific nations to propose a sweeping trade and security agreement. China's intensifying diplomacy in the Pacific demonstrates the region's growing geostrategic importance. China experts Patrick Cronin and Bonnie Glaser join Deep Dish to discuss China's strategy in the Pacific, and how the US should respond.

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Reading:

The Pacific Islands Matter for America/America Matters for the Pacific Islands, East-West Center