the my name is melissa chant, thanks for joining us. french president emanuel mccall and is visiting the south pacific. the island nations located between the us, china and australia, are taking on major strategic importance for security and defense. the u. s. has long held sway in the region, but china is seeking to build influence there. and now france wants to offer its own alternative in the pacific region. french president emmanuel mccall, seeing here visiting papa and new guinea wants to car about a more significant role for from some global competition between the us and china and the side pacific. the island nations sparsely populated, the tall and bold kind of archipelago is of the region become a geopolitical slash point. on an earlier visit divided by 2 without naming china. mccall warranted the treacherous sovereignty of small estates made the us china power struggle to build the order is completely destroyed by the willingness of human failure on voters. deeper dive, things is, will be obeys order and this is new. imperialism is the basis of a new company and isn't, let'