RELEASE | Will The Security Of America’s Western Frontier Perish With Northern Marianas Governor Palacios?
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
August 1, 2025
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Will The Security Of America’s Western Frontier Perish With Northern Marianas Governor Palacios?
CPDC Webinar to Examine CCP Inroads in the Central Pacific at 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET Today
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The recent passing of Arnold Palacios, the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands, has potentially profound implications for the United States’ vital interests not only in that territory that forms part of America’s western border, but far beyond. His stalwart opposition to Chinese Communist penetration of the region and his warnings about the corruption that it exploits to advance the PRC’s colonial imperial build-out are much needed at the moment, and will be sorely missed in his absence. The question is: What comes next – and what will be the implications?
Today’s CPDC webinar from 1:00-2:15 p.m. ET will discuss those topics with an extraordinary panel of subject matter experts and national security practitioners. Register to participate at presentdangerchina.org.
Moderator:
- Frank Gaffney, President, Institute for the American Future; Vice Chairman, Committee on the Present Danger: China; host, “Securing America”
Panelists:
- Cleo Paskal, Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies – Topic: “The Imperiled American Heartland in the Pacific”
- Gordon Chang, Senior Distinguished Fellow, the Gatestone Institute, author: Plan Red: China’s Project to Destroy America – Topic: “The CCP’s Ambitions in the Central Pacific – and Beyond”
- Capt. James Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.), former Chief of Intelligence and Information Operations, U.S. Pacific Fleet; co-author, Embracing Communist China: America’s Greatest Strategic Failure — Topic: “Unilateral Disarmament: Are We Ceding Hard-won Islands and the Central Pacific to Our Mortal Enemy?”
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