Cleo Pascal

political response to trigger a kinetic response that would force

force the Chinese to dislodge.

But that's once the decision to try to invade Taiwan is taken.

And that decision hopefully has been complicated by President Trump's forceful actions and unpredictability from a Chinese Communist Party calculations perspective.

Thank you.

Thank you for that question.

There's one thing that's very critical at the moment.

So we've talked about the three U.S.

freely associated states, Palau, Federated States of Micronesia, and Marshall Islands.

So these are this area of the Central Pacific between Hawaii and Guam and the Philippines.

These three islands have a unique relationship with the United States.

They

can serve in the military at very high rates, and they do.

They can freely work and live in the U.S.

The U.S.

has the responsibility to protect them.

It has strategic denial.

It's what allows the U.S.

to safely get across the center of the Pacific in order to be able to get to the first or second island chain and to get to the Americans in Guam and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

Over 100,000 Americans died during World War II to create this very unique relationship.