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OTL Spain's Pacific Holdings were divided after the Spanish American war; The Philippines and Guam initially to the USA, the Marianas, Carolinas, and Palau to Germany. Later the american and German empires were further divided.

Could all these islands have plausibly become one sovereign state by 2016?

Perhaps anticolonialism in the USA results in Philippines and Guam sold to the Germans as well, then after a comparable WW1 to OTL, The German New Guinea mainland is ceded to Britain and the rest of the islands become a independent UN protectorate administered from Manila?

Could any other area become part of a greater Phillipines? Even OTL some Filipinos claim part of northern Borneo. Formosa/Taiwan seems plausible if a mainland Chinese state is unfriendly to the USA, and the Philippines is friendly.
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