2/4: #Oceania: How the Compacts of Free Association (Palau, Micronesia, the Marshalls) Support U.S. Interests and Counter the PRC's Influence. Cleo Paskal, FDD.
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2/4: #Oceania: How the Compacts of Free Association (Palau, Micronesia, the Marshalls) Support U.S. Interests and Counter the PRC's Influence. Cleo Paskal, FDD.
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| 0:00.0 | Think you know Disney Plus, think again. |
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| 0:09.0 | This is our own. |
| 0:10.0 | Think brand new series with Marvel Studios' secret invasion, starring Samuel O'Jackson and Ben Mendelssohn. |
| 0:16.0 | This is personal. |
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| 0:22.0 | We need more. |
| 0:23.0 | Yes, Chef. |
| 0:24.0 | All these and more streaming this summer on Disney Plus. |
| 0:27.0 | 18 plus subscription-acquired TCC's apply. |
| 0:57.0 | The PRC's influence is active and extremely effective. |
| 1:00.0 | Three parts, Cleo identifies in her testimony. |
| 1:03.0 | The first is that people's Republic of China has established research centers. |
| 1:08.0 | What does that mean, Cleo, and what do they do with them? |
| 1:12.0 | They have about half a dozen research centers in mainland China just focused on understanding Oshini in general. |
| 1:20.0 | But it's supplemented by the fact that the company has a lot of research centers. |
| 1:25.0 | But it's supplemented by a vast intelligence collection network that, you know, as we know, can deploy everything from TikTok to people on the ground, to whatever you want. |
| 1:38.0 | So when they're dealing with somebody in anywhere, but since we're talking about the freely associated states, by the way, those terms are interchangeable. |
| 1:46.0 | Compact state or freely associated state. |
| 1:49.0 | They mean the same thing. |
| 1:50.0 | They mean these three countries. |
| 1:52.0 | When they sit down to negotiate or bribe or blackmail, they know exactly who they're dealing with. |
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