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Joyce McClure

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  • Freelance Writer and Photographer, Freelance
Charlottesville
As seen in: The Guardian, Stars and Stripes, Stars and Stripes Okinawa, Saipan Tribune, Marianas Variety, Asia Pacific Report, Go World Travel Magazine, PACNEWS, The Pacific Island Times
Covers:  Culture, politics (China/US conflict in the Pacific region), lifestyle, travel.

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I joined the Peace Corps as a Response Volunteer in August 2016 and traded the island of Manhattan for the island of Yap after a long career as a senior executive in marketing communications. The stories of companies and brands and the people behind them were my stock-in-trade for nearly 40 years, but today I tell the stories of the people, culture and politics of the Pacific Region and how they live in the modern world while maintaining their traditional way of life. After five years in Yap, I…

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Rare earths, rough seas: FSM at the crossroads of U.S-China resource rivalry

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By Joyce McClure Verified
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By Joyce McClure China’s new restrictions on the export of rare earth minerals are reverberating across the Pacific, raising concerns that the Federated States of Micronesia could become a new arena for resource competition between Beijing and Washington. The Chinese government announced last month that it would impose new licensing rules on exports of critical minerals used in computer chips, batteries and defence systems.
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Spotlight on Micronesia: Discovering the wonders of Yap

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By Joyce McClure Verified
| Stars and Stripes Verified
Photos by Joyce McClure: Bamboo Dance performed by young Yapese men and women () Yap? Where’s that? In Micronesia. Oh, you’re moving to Indonesia. No, Micro….Micronesia…in the far western Pacific Ocean just above the equator. Blank stare. This was the typical exchange with friends and strangers alike when I announced in 2016 that I had applied to be a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in one of the most remote and smallest islands in the Pacific Ocean.
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A Pedacito of the sweet-smelling flower crowns and garlands of Yap in Pacific Ocean

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By Joyce McClure Verified
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Photos by Joyce McClure () When I first arrived at Yap International Airport after midnight on one of only two weekly flights from Guam, the air was hot and humid. My glasses fogged over as I stepped out of the airplane’s air conditioned interior. Descending down a flight of steep metal rolling stairs onto the tarmac, I followed the line of travelers queuing up at the entrance to the small terminal that’s shaped like a traditional, steep-roofed Yap building.
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