An abandoned US airfield in the Pacific, once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan, is being revived due to Beijing's growing influence in the region.
IN the middle of the Pacific ocean, an abandoned US airfield once key to dropping the nuclear bomb on Japan — and nearly lost to history amid encroaching forest — is being revived. But as the Americans hack away at the jungle overgrowth at Tinian Island airfield and other old, World War 2-era bases across the region, it won't be with Japan on their mind.
Rather, it's Beijing's growing influence in the Pacific that is spurring the recovery of a slew of abandoned runways on the 40-square-mile (100-square-kilometer) speck of land that makes up Tinian, part of the US territory of the Northern Mariana Island
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