Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. This is your bachelor speaking with Lance

Gatling of Nexial Research.

He's in Tokyo, along with my colleague Gordon Chang, about the Okinawa Island Chain,

extending down from the mainland of China,

main islands of China, towards Taiwan.

A very critical geography when it comes to speculating about the defense of Japan,

the Philippines, Taiwan, and a Chinese sneak attack off of the mainland.

I learned that the Okinawa's are not exactly the same as the Japanese, and that that has given a propaganda

boost to the People's Republic of China's operations.

And Lance Gatling explains here about the Chinese working on the Okanawans who are necessarily

concerned about being in the middle of a firefight the day before the end of the world.

Here's Lance Gatling on the Okanawans from the main island of Okanawa all the way down towards

Ishigaki and on, and how they see themselves in the world of violent affairs of Asia.

More of this later.

So ethnically, linguistically, culturally, yes, they're different.

So there's somewhere in between Japan, Korea, China,

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