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No man is an island: Samoa, American Samoa co-operation

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By Walter Vermeulen, Oren Grueanbaum, Eliana Viali, Afoa Seti Afoa
| Samoa Observer Verified
No country can be totally self-reliant in the modern world. Even the richest countries like the United States of America and the People's Republic of China have to import commodities from other cheaper sources following the law of comparative advantage. That is each country must focus on what it is best at to produce economically. Inter-Island cooperation between the two Samoas helps enormously to share scarce resources for the benefit of our people.
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The Samoa sub text to Australia Day 1788

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By Afoa Seti Afoa, Walter Vermeulen, Jarrett Malifa
| Samoa Observer Verified
In the race between Britain and France to settle Australia in the late 18th century, Samoa unwittingly played a hand in delaying the French from claiming the prize. Two French ships arrived in Botany Bay on 24 January that year, only to see the eleven ships of the First Fleet already anchored in the bay. French explorer and expedition leader Comte de La Perouse was six days too late. The French late arrival could have something to do with the loss of twelve French sailors in Samoa a month earlier.
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