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Just out of curiosity why would the French even have a Pacific strategy?

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• Bayart 5y ago
  We have territories in the Pacific, most notably New Caledonia (Australia's closest neighbour, I believe), and a huge EEZ [1]. [1]: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Map_of_the_Territorial_Waters_of_the_Pacific_Ocean.png https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Map_of_t...
  • nsonha 5y ago
    reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykDDyHDTZY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xykDDyHDTZY
  • caf 5y ago
    Australia's closest neighbour is Papua New Guinea - the closest Australian island is only 4km from the PNG coast.