To counter a resurgent China, the U.S. is racing to revitalise remote airstrips in the Pacific Ocean. Tinian Island, where the US bombers that dropped the nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki took off in WWII, is now at the forefront of new global tensions between the world’s two superpowers. The Island’s WWII era airstrips are being repaired for modern planes. It’s part of a wider strategy to combat Beijing’s ability to threaten the U.S.’s bases, including those on nearby Guam.
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