90 minutes. [background noises] this hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. For thousands of years Pacific Islanders have been masters of the seat navigating oceans by canoe guided only by the stars. With Climate Change and globalization hitting their shores they have become innovators on how to save their heritage. There are over a million and a half americans and pacific pacificisland ancestry. Over 1000 citizens from freely associated state serving in the United States armed forces. This put people to people ties at the heart of our relationship to a part of the world that has been a vital and Strategic Interests of the United States. During world war ii u. S. Navy built an airstrip what is now the nation. But today it is the peoples republic of china that is planned to rebuild the former american airstrip. Beijing is signaling policing deals to provide cybersecurity and Community Policing assistance in the region. Since the islands change their recogn