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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome Grant Neusham. Colonel United States Marine Corps retired, author of When China Attacks,

watching the Chinese aggression in the Oceania part of the planet Earth.

That would be the vast circumference of the Pacific Ocean,

all the sovereign powers and colonies encapsulated by that metaphor.

However, we're dealing right now with one particular part of the Oceania.

This is the Northern Marianas.

On April 24th, 2025, some months before, the governor at the time, Governor Arnold Palacios, wrote a letter to Cash Pateli, director of the FBI,

requesting, quote, intensive investigations of public corruption, end quote, saying that in the Northern Mariana Island that he was responsible for,

there was, quote, considerable evidence to provide the FBI

investigation. On July 1st, the FBI sent a letter in return saying was closing a year's long

investigation into the previous governor, Torres, and a Chinese casino.

Grant, a very good evening to you.

You're published in the Asia Times a reason to investigate what wasn't investigated.

To our knowledge at this point, the letter of the former governor,

Governor Palacios, as I understand, died some weeks ago of a heart attack,

leaving the office open. But I want to know what the details are, or we can surmise in his letter.

What corruption. Where on Saipan, where on Tinian. Good evening to you, Grant.

Good evening, John. Yes, Governor Palacios

was a rare creature. I've never heard of anyone like him. He actually begged the Americans to please

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