Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is my colleague and friend Gordon Chang.

This is CBSi and the world.

I'm John Bachelor.

Welcoming my colleague and friend Gordon Chang

at Gordon G Chang is my co-host to discuss the threat of the People's Liberation Army Navy to our

ally Japan and our allies along the First Island Chain, including the Philippines.

We're very pleased to welcome James Finel, co-author of Embracing Communist China,

America's greatest strategic failure.

He is a government fellow at the Geneva Center for Security Policy.

He's in Switzerland.

He's a former naval officer specializing in intelligence and knows these waters of the Western Pacific and East Asia very well.

Jim, a very good day to you.

I go to the cover piece in the Newsweek magazine in these last hours.

Since I became Prime Minister, said Prime Minister Fumil Kishida of Japan, we have been substantially revising Japan's national security strategy.

Now in that strategy of course we will not change the steps we have been taking to date as a peace-loving nation.

In your time on active duty and now after active duty, how do you measure these words of the Prime Minister? Is this a militarizing

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