This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Continuing with Colonel Grant Newsom, United States Marine Corps Retired, he's on Saipan and we're joined by Cleo Pascal

at the Foundation for the Defense of democracies who's also at Garipan on Saipan.

However, Cleo is going to bring us up to date.

Grant has introduced us to the Battle of the Imperial Japanese Empire in 1944.

Cleo is going to introduce us to what appears to be a contest for Oceania in 2024 with the People's

Republic of China. Cleo, a very good day to you in Saipan.

You were also at the ceremonies and you've given me to understand that there is tension in Saipan and Tinian the Northern Marianas because of, I guess you could call it soft power that would be one way to

refer to a casino by the People's Republic of China and Arnold Palacios, the governor of these regions, has written a letter indicating

that there's tension.

What does the tension look like?

Good day to you, Cleo.

Good day.

Yes, so the way that China has been looking at and placing itself in the

region has been very much through political warfare and that has meant

things like Chinese Linked casinos that as you mentioned there was one on

Saipan that was running billions of dollars more money than was running through

casinos and Macau. It's quite incredible to believe, considering that the population here is about 40, 50,000.

But the big bone of contention at the moment is, after the war, Saipan, CNMI, it is

a

had been part of the Japanese mandate and then it became a US trust territory and

then it voted to become part of the United States.

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