The Pacific’s cocaine highway: will Australia’s $600m deal really help?

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a $600 million program to strengthen aerial and maritime surveillance across the Pacific, targeting the narco-submarines and small vessels used to move drugs through the region. He made the announcement at the Pacific Islands Forum in Palau. Leaders missing and China ‘furious’: the Pacific Islands forum off to a decidedly shaky start The Pacific is increasingly becoming a halfway point for transnational drug smuggling. Its…