Genevieve Neilson
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Genevieve Neilson is a former Presidential Management Fellow for the US Department of Commerce and served as a Desk Officer for the Freely Associated States at the US Department of State. She resides in Sydney and tweets at @GenNeilson and blogs at www.pacificusforum.com. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author alone.
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Sign of respect: the Freely Associated States come to Washington
Wooed by China and Taiwan, the presidents of Palau, Micronesia and Marshall Islands now sit down with Donald Trump.