Many promote Pacific Islander unity everywhere, especially in countries like New Zealand and the United States. Nesian Kulture offers island gear and T-shirts that promote “Nesian” pride, with the historic divisions being deliberately underplayed.

Turned out that everything he said at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore was more or less what everyone knows about China’s aspirations in the Pacific. An invasion of Taiwan could happen. It could be imminent. Could be.

By Jeffrey Teruel (Flights in Asia) -- For residents of Guam, "going off-island" is another expense associated with living in one of the...