TONIGHT: The show moves from the volcanic Island Republic of Tonga to the 1940 Winter War that saw the Finns hold off the Russians, obliging Stalin to negotiate. Also stops in Seoul, Pusan and Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the armistice. And
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
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TONIGHT: The show moves from the volcanic Island Republic of Tonga to the 1940 Winter War that saw the Finns hold off the Russians, obliging Stalin to negotiate. Also stops in Seoul, Pusan and Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the armistice. And especial attention to the vanishing of Qin Gang.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:01.0 | This is John Bacheler. |
| 0:02.0 | Tonight in the program I speak with Cleopascal of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies |
| 0:07.4 | about the contest over Oceania, this vast space of the Pacific and the Indian Ocean between |
| 0:14.5 | Beijing and the United States over influence in these small independent states. |
| 0:22.0 | The influence in China's fashion turns on to you, recognize Beijing and not Taipei. |
| 0:29.1 | You take our money, do you accept our state security, our surveillance, China is looking |
| 0:34.0 | to pick up pieces of the Pacific. |
| 0:36.0 | Why? |
| 0:37.2 | It's all has to do with the expected coming kinetic war with China. |
| 0:42.6 | The islands across the Pacific are critical to holding the first island chain, the second |
| 0:48.9 | island chain, the third island chain, marching to Hawaii. |
| 0:53.8 | Because the People's Republic of China's position, that the U.S. can have everything |
| 0:58.7 | east of Hawaii, they're going to take everything west of Hawaii, well that's the bragging |
| 1:03.0 | point in any event. |
| 1:04.7 | We also note that the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Austin, is visiting Papua Nagini, Port |
| 1:10.0 | Moorsby. |
| 1:11.0 | This is the first visit ever of a sect F to the PNG, because this is part of the contest. |
| 1:18.1 | Influence peddling by China, but we have friends in PNG. |
| 1:22.6 | The next days we'll see President Macron of France visiting Papua Nagini, because France |
| 1:28.0 | has many possessions in the Indo-Pacific and a lot of people, especially in India and |
| 1:33.6 | Ocean. |
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