Cleo Paskal, non-resident senior fellow at FDD and author of Crossroads of Competition, joins the show to discuss China’s campaign for influence and control at the scene of America’s bloody island-hopping campaign in WW2.

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Times 

    •      01:35 Introduction

    •      04:03 Pacific desert   

    •      07:45 Control  

    •      13:48 Post 1945

    •      22:43 Significance      

    •      24:31 Yap

    •      29:43 Divisions      

    •      32:18 Diplomatic maintenance

    •      35:54 Designs

    •      41:30 Strategic concerns  

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