Sitting here on Guam I am in the United States, and yet I am much closer to Manila than Los Angeles. The nearest bit of the US proper, Hawaii, is nearly 4,000 miles (6,400km) to the east.
The Malaysia-U.S. (MYUS) Cable is a fiberoptic undersea cable network connecting Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines with the United States in Guam, Hawaii and the Pacific Northwest of the ...