Cleo Pascal

military is building up in both Guam and the Marianas.

These are separate U.S.

territories.

The island of Tinian is in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

That's where the major air base was towards the end of World War II, which had the B-29 bombers taking off from Japan.

It's where the Enola Gay took off from.

That airfield is now being rebuilt.

And of course, Guam is also seeing a lot more activity before.

So the Chinese, I look more like like you do the political warfare component to this.

And they're on the ground seriously trying to destabilize the U.S.

from the inside so that if there is a move on Taiwan, both Guam and the northern Marianas won't be operational.

And one of the ways, and this has come up in the context of what's going on in the Supreme Court, is Chinese can still arrive without a visa on U.S.

soil in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.

So this has been obviously a birth tourism issue, but also the woman that ran the Bureau of Motor Vehicles there was convicted of selling U.S.

driver's licenses along with a Chinese co-conspirator specifically to Chinese drivers.

The Chinese that come in without a visa aren't supposed to leave the Marianas, but at least in the hundreds, we think they've been taking the boat, illegally going by boat from the island of Rota, which is in the south of Marianas to Guam, which is about 60 miles away.

They've been showing up in Guam, selling drugs, human trafficking, and wandering around the U.S.

bases.

There was just a Chinese tourist who was convicted of taking photos of Anderson base in Guam.

They're also very heavily and deeply entwined into the economy of the Northern Marianas.