Kiribati is considered strategic as it is relatively close to Hawaii and controls a 3.5 million square kilometre exclusive economic zone.
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In a bid to counter China’s growing power in the region,the US envisions hiring up to 40 staffers over the next five years for each of its four new embassies.
In recent years a number of island nations have moved to push the “neocolonial” legal experts out.
There are no appeal judges in Kiribati after the government of the Pacific Island nation suspended three judges from office.
Moves by the Kiribati government to deport an Australian citizen and senior judge of the Pacific Island who is married to the country’s opposition leader have been struck down.
Kiribati’s Court of Appeal was urged to exhibit “maximum deference” to moves by the government to deport a senior Kiribati judge who is married to the country’s opposition leader.
An Australian citizen and senior judge in Kiribati who is married to the opposition leader of the Pacific Island nation was detained by the government on Thursday.