Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival,

three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized

tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend.

All right.

Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior.

And don't get us started on Mel.

But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together.

All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you

travel with us. P, and O' the defense of democracies, who flies all around Oceania, that's the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, in pursuit of the

story that has one big theme, China's aggression looking to sign up and persuade and influence and intervene and use

the sovereign states of all the islands stretching from Hawaii to the mainland stretching from

certainly the North Asia all the way to Australia and our ally New Zealand

and involving Indonesia all of these states but we're going to concentrate on one in

particular now the Battle of Tinian the anniversary is coming on the 24th of

July and the anniversary is important to the people of Tinian but also this is a

state a part of a state in Northern Mariana's that's under the salt by the soft power of the People's Republic of China.

How so, Clio, what is China marked down as the way we're going to take Tinian.

So just so to be clear so everybody knows this is the United States of America.

Tinian and Saipan are two of the islands in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, which is a US territory.

These are US citizens.

This is where the US shares border with Japan as a result of maritime border as a result of the

liberation of this area from Imperial Japan almost exactly 80 years ago as you mentioned with Tinian.

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