You’re reading The Husk's Friday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

…Taiwan-Guam-US-China things

• Marines from Taiwan are training on Guam, aka Uncle Sam territory. Probably not China’s favorite thing.

• Guam officials were hush-hush on the whole thing early in the week. A couple of days later, Guam senators were briefed by U.S. military officials about China’s potential threat to Guam, at the request of the island’s congress representative. One Guam senator told KUAM. “What happens in Taiwan will trigger the importancy of our island in this theater. But I’m confident that in the presentation that they are more than aware and they are ready to protect our island.”

  The mayors were also part of the briefing and “are now better equipped to respond to constituent concerns about regional security, and can ‘quell’ any unsubstantiated fears they may have,” the Guam Daily Post reported.

• Following a visit by a U.S. delegation this week, The Associated Press reported Chinese forces held some exercises near Taiwan “in response to” some Americans visiting Taiwan. The AP reported, “Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said China considers the delegation’s visit a ‘serious violation’ of U.S. commitments not to have formal relations with Taiwan, which China claims as its territory.”¹

  Meanwhile the U.S. Navy’s “most lethal aircraft carrier” pulled into Guam on Veteran’s Day.

…cases the Guam Police Department forgot about

The Guam Daily Post reported GPD has 103 unsolved cases but there are two cases involving Micronesian men that are not included in this list.

The homicide of Sharkey Ruben from 2016 and the 2015 case of Mike Limur who has been missing since 2015. I asked police about Mr. Limur in 2020 and they confirmed it was still an open case. GPD has not released any information about the status of either case, so from the public’s perspective, the cases have not been solved— and worse— they aren’t on this list of unsolved cases GPD is tracking. ²

…thing from Micronesia

• US slammed for assigning ‘desk officers’ to renegotiate Compacts of Free Association, per the Pacific Island Times.³

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