The Pacific Islands have been in the spotlight, especially in the aftermath of the newly-signed China-Solomon Islands security agreement that would pave the way for the regime to station its military forces there.
The territory sits in the second island chain that contains U.S. Naval Base Guam.
Given its strategic position, if the United States can not counter China in the region, it is bound to lose its pre-eminent power and would be put on the defensive, according to two security experts. 
If the Pacific Islands are lost to the Chinese regime, “we would finally face an enemy, face a situation where we would be on the defensive, and from much closer to American territory,.. actually from Hawaii, from a lot closer to the U.S. West Coast,” said Grant Newsham, a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy…