It's September 29th, you're listening to the President's Daily Brief.

I'm your host and former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright.

Your morning intel starts now.

We've got a special edition of the PDB today, so I'm important news in the battle for

the Pacific, which is our long-running series on whether China or the United States

will win in the battle for influence amongst the many island nations of the North and South

Pacific.

Now, I'm doing this special because the leaders of 14 of those island nations are in Washington,

DC this morning, wrapping up a two-day summit with Joe Biden and other administration officials.

So today, we are going to take a trip to the Pacific, and we are going to explore where

America is winning, where we're losing, and what we can do to strengthen our position

in case war ever comes.

As always, I'll respond to a listener question today.

It's about how close we might be to a nuclear war with Russia.

But first, let's get started with today's main brief, the battle for the Pacific.

It's really important that we win this battle for you, for me, for all of us.

Because if it ever came to war with China, we would need every last ally in that critical

region, just as we did when we battled Japan in World War II.

And that's precisely why the Biden administration is spending two full days talking to leaders

of these 14 countries from both the North and the South Pacific, trying to rebuild relationships

with these countries that, by all fair estimates, well, we've sort of just forgotten about

them over the years, and along with it, we've lost much of our influence.

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