This is CBS. I'm the world. I'm John Batchel. Oceania, the vast Pacific and Indian Ocean together

completely describe a battlefield of diplomacy between the People's Republic of China,

looking to influence and dominate the islands,

the archipelagos, and sometimes the very large islands, that would be Japan and the Philippines.

At the same time, the counter is not the United States, although it's present.

Australia, New Zealand, once upon a time.

I learned this from Cleo Pascal of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

who's been my guide learning the islands I had always puzzled about

during the stories of the Second War,

but it never actually looked into their governance, their fate, their colonial days,

and what's next in this battle with the People's Republic of China?

We now go to a completely new place for me, Nauru, which is completely independent.

13,000 people, that's all there are of Naurons. And they've signed an agreement with Australia.

At the same time, I believe they're in conversation with China. This describes in one little

plays the contradictions of the Oceania conflict. Cleo, a very good evening to you. This agreement signed with Australia.

It looks positive at the present, but you tell me that this scale of agreement has also been

signed with the Solomons and I believe other sovereign states in the Pacific. What is Australia's

intention here? Good evening to you.

Good evening. The deal that was signed between Australia and the Nauran government is very

similar to the one that they signed, with some exceptions, with the Tuvaluan government.

And they pretend, they say that they're similar to the U.S. compacts of

association with Palau, Marshall Islands, and Federated States of Micronesia.

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