Cleo Pascal

then the U.S.

isn't safe because that's where the Japanese staged from for over 30 years.

So we're starting to see some recognition, and we're also starting to see exactly what the rest of this hour has been about, which is the confluence of political warfare and economic warfare.

So you're seeing new levers coming into play.

And again, in Palau, I think we're starting to see the first roots of a new form of strategic foreign policy.

They signed a deal with the U.S.

on December 23rd,

where the U.S.

will be able to send up to 75 deportees to Palau.

That was the headline.

But underneath that headline, the U.S.

is agreeing to send to Palau on the ground law enforcement personnel, cyber personnel, customs integration, people who can actually do the counter Chinese political warfare operations.

Specifically, they're going after Chinese corruption and Chinese organized crime in Palau.

try to liberate it from that ground level political warfare grip.

Because when you see those demonstrations happening in places like Minnesota and you start to track the money, you can see that not all of it is coming from Americans.

And even more so because the Chinese have realized how important the center of the Pacific is to the US, they've been doing the same sort of thing there.

So you need to, along with selling the missiles,

You need to have the law enforcement intelligence sharing in order to be able to go after the sort of destabilization you have on the ground.

And there's been one good win that happened in the last 24 hours, which is we've covered extensively what happened in Saipan with the Chinese casino.

ICE has finally arrested the Chinese woman that was heavily involved in setting up that casino.