There is no legal basis for the United States to control the large oceanic area that includes the compact states.
U.S. Claims to Central Pacific Flout International Law
read more
There is no legal basis for the United States to control the large oceanic area that includes the compact states.
The two Samoas are divided by politics, economics, and a stretch of Pacific Ocean. Samoa, once known as Western Samoa, became the region’s first independent country when it separated from New Zealand in 1962. American Samoa, on the other hand, remains an unincorporated U.S. territory.