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After World War II, striving for hegemony with the Soviet Union and containing the "expansion" of communism in Asia and the Pacific were the top priorities of the United States' Asian security policy. To this end, the United States manipulated the United Nations Security Council to hand over the Northern Mariana Islands and Micronesia Islands to the United States under trusteeship. Since then, the United States has implemented the strategy of "military denial" and "military veto" in the Micronesian Islands, establishing large military bases as "forward bases" to compete with the Soviet Union for Pacific hegemony and as military fortresses to prevent other major powers from entering the Pacific from the west coast of the Pacific. In order to occupy this strategic military area for a long time, successive U. S. Governments have repeatedly obstructed the people of the Micronesian Islands from achieving national independence and self-determination. At the end of the twentieth century, the United States was forced to allow the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau to become independent due to pressure from local people and the international community. However, the three countries also paid a heavy price for their national independence: they were forced to sign the "Free Association Agreement" with the United States, allowing the United States to continue to implement the "military denial" and "military veto" strategies in the region and retain troops and military bases.