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Colonel Grant Newsham assesses South Korea's leftist President Yoon Suk Yeol, describing him as pro-China and anti-US, despite his vow to increase defense spending. Newsham views this spending partly as a tactical ploy to avoid reliance on US troops. Sep

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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 Colonel Grant Newsham assesses South Korea's leftist President Yoon Suk Yeol, describing him as pro-China and anti-US, despite his vow to increase defense spending. Newsham views this spending partly as a tactical ploy to avoid reliance on US troops. Separately, he highlights Chinese influence and rampant corruption in the US territory of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), which is brazenly seeking $100 million from the USdespite $1.6 billion having vanished.

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0:00.0

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I'm Tom Batsworth, my good colleague, Grant Nusheum, Colonel Grant Nusheum and

0:27.3

United States Marine Co-retired, the author of When China Attacks. And I'm looking for an update on the

0:32.3

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana's, especially Saipan and Tinian Islands. When last grant reported, both islands were suspect of having either misappropriated or wasted

0:46.6

or hidden away an enormous amount of money from the United States government to its own people,

0:53.7

Saipan and Tinian, the Commonwealth of North and Mariana's.

0:57.0

That's U.S. territory.

0:58.4

This isn't a sovereign state.

1:00.1

This isn't a colony.

1:01.0

It's U.S. territory.

1:02.7

And there's missing money.

1:05.0

The tragedy of the year is that a governor who wanted to find out where the money went

1:09.1

and wanted to find out about Chinese influence

1:11.2

peddling in an Iran casino that is now empty on Saipan, he died suddenly and has been replaced by a man

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