Ep 206: Cleo Paskal on China’s Central Pacific Strategy

School of War · Jun 17, 2025 · 49m

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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