If they don't get this right, they will be known as the people who handed the Pacific to China.

In the pending $95 billion security aid bill, most of America has been focusing on USA

to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. But few noticed that key funds for another region were removed,

an action that could give Communist China control of much of the Pacific.

Every president of these nations has a blank check from China on his desk.

They haven't cashed them yet.

And all they have to do is say to the United States, yes we have a treaty, but we don't think it applies.

What is really at stake here? Today I sit down with Grant Neusham, an Asia Pacific expert, a

senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy and author of

when China attacks. It's not just in jeopardy this is in extremis we're about to

lose. This is American Thought Leaders and I'm Yanya Kallik.

Grant Newsom, such a pleasure to have you back on American Thought Leaders.

Well, glad to be here. Thanks very much.

Grant, you brought something to my attention recently, which I find incredibly concerning.

The U.S. has a relationship with these compact countries, Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau govern about 6 million nautical miles of territory

that essentially has been under US military control in defense of course, right,

since World War II.

And that may be in jeopardy. And I just find that absolutely astonishing.

Tell me about this.

Yeah.

Sure. Well, it's not just in jeopardy, this is in extremis, which means that we're about to lose. And these three countries that you've mentioned,

they're right in the middle of the Central Pacific, and they occupy a huge amount of terrain.

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