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Indo-Pacific, Oceania, all these sovereign states and powers

march in the story of the competition between the People's Republic of China,

the United States, and its allies.

Cleop Pascal, who is traveling, she's in the nation's capital now, and very kind to comment on what

looks to be a breaking development on this contest between the PRC always

looking to use cash and sharp elbows to flip a country or a sovereign state or an island from the US side to the PRC side.

This particular example is Reuters.

U.S. cautions after Hawaii neighbor Kiribati gets Chinese police.

Chinese police are something that was a tell when they moved into the Solomon Islands, so I immediately knew to come to

Cleo. The opening paragraph the United States cautioned Pacific Island

Nations against assistance from Chinese security forces after Royd has reported that Chinese police

police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati,

a neighbor of Hawaii.

I'll stop there, Cleo, and come to you on this. This is a surprise to me, although now that I've been

educated by you, this push could be on in many islands. Kiribati wasn't one we've talked

about recently.

Where is it? What does it represent this report?

Good evening to you.

Good evening.

Kiribati is a country of about 120,000 people spread out over a huge section of the Pacific, of the Central Pacific.

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