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S8 Ep348: GUEST: Cleo Paskal. SUMMARY: Paskal reports from a defense forum where Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr. detailed Chinese political warfare against his strategic nation. Whipps described destabilization tactics including illegal fishing, cyber attacks

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🗓️ 21 January 2026

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GUEST: Cleo Paskal. SUMMARY: Paskal reports from a defense forum where Palau's President Surangel Whipps Jr.detailed Chinese political warfare against his strategic nation. Whipps described destabilization tactics including illegal fishing, cyber attacks, and scam centers, emphasizing the urgent need for international assistance to combat corruption and Chinese transnational crime.
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with Indeed. This is John Batchel, conversation with colleague Cleo Pascal.

0:40.3

She's in Palau in the Central Pacific, talking about a meeting in Honolulu,

0:45.4

just concluded a defense forum to combat, to refute to in some fashion hold off the Chinese aggression

0:53.5

all across the Indo-Pacific,

0:55.7

but especially in the critical islands that are under the U.S. protection in Central Pacific.

1:02.3

Palau being a major detail because it is the doorstep to the Japan in the north

1:09.5

and the Philippines in the south and Taiwan in the

1:12.7

west, East Asia. Here's clear to explain how the president of Palau made it very clear at

1:20.1

the defense forum in Honolulu what the threat is and what it looks like, what is to be done.

1:25.4

More of this, than I. It depended. It depended. So, and in fact, State Department was a little bit less clear on this

1:34.2

issue. But again, the president of Palau, a country that recognizes Taiwan, President

1:39.1

Whips, he was really explicit about the Chinese doing illegal fishing,

1:46.5

cyber attack, setting up scam centers.

1:50.1

He went through the entire panoply

1:53.1

of political warfare operations that are designed

1:56.0

to destabilize his country.

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