Hegseth put on notice: 'Partners, not protectorates' means pay up | Local News | postguam.com

June 7, 20261 min readoceania

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at the Shangri-La Dialogue, urged Asian allies to shoulder more defense spending, calling for “partners, not protectorates” and proposing a 3.5% of GDP defense-spending benchmark.
Guam officials frame this as a real, long-standing U.S. partnership issue: Guam has hosted a major military buildup and argues Washington must invest in civilian infrastructure (over $415 million planned in the near term; billions through mid-century) to

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