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Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm christinamiot.

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Speaker 1: It's Monday, July fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Some of Australia's

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Speaker 1: most senior legal figures have called on the National Anti

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Speaker 1: Corruption Commission to publicly name the allegedly corrupt officials it investigates.

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Speaker 1: It comes after Commissioner Paul Brereton kept private the name

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Speaker 1: of a public official who used her position to give

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Speaker 1: her future brother in law a plum government job. The

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Speaker 1: taxpayer funded arts body Creative Australia is being driven by

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Speaker 1: a political agenda. An exclusive analysis by The Australian shows

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Speaker 1: you can read those stories right now at the Australian

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Speaker 1: dot com dot au. Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi kicked off

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Speaker 1: a six day trip to China in Shanghai on Sunday,

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Speaker 1: where he launched a tourism campaign designed to bring more

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Speaker 1: Chinese tourists to Australia. Today, Why the PM's hanging out

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Speaker 1: with a former soccer rou and what Australia would do

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Speaker 1: if China and the US clashed over Taiwan.

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Speaker 2: He's off again. A second straight red card for Kevin Musker.

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Speaker 1: If Kevin Musket cared about red cards. His performance on

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Speaker 1: and sometimes off the soccer field didn't show it.

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Speaker 3: Wild, reckless. He just flew into that tackle. He's mistimed

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Speaker 3: it horrendously. The Melbourne victory captain, it's a red card

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Speaker 3: and things go from bata use for the home side.

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Speaker 3: The referee in the game wants againscar. He walks a

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Speaker 3: fine line, Kevin Musket. This time he stepped down the route.

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Speaker 1: The brutal defender played forty six games for the Soccer

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Speaker 1: US from the mid nineteen nineties and a quick Google

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Speaker 1: search turned up a notorious reputation.

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Speaker 3: Can we talk about that very quickly?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 3: Was there a player that you were ever scared of?

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Speaker 3: There's been a coup work?

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Speaker 5: The player that you turn.

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Speaker 3: Up in Kevin Muscat, you're going to say, Kevin Musk.

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Speaker 1: Kevin Moscats did these days. Musket is himself the manager

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Speaker 1: of a team, the Shanghai Port Football Club, who he's

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Speaker 1: coached to two Chinese Super League Premiership wins, and on

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Speaker 1: Sunday he was on the welcoming committee greeting Anthony Alberanizi

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Speaker 1: on the first stop of the Prime Minister's six day

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Speaker 1: tour of China.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: And we have a parliamentary football team.

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Speaker 3: We're not very good.

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Speaker 1: The PM is famously more of an NRL guy, but

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Speaker 1: he's hoping to leverage Musket's profile to entice more Chinese

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Speaker 1: tourists to Australia. The Australian's North Asia correspondent Will Glasgow

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Speaker 1: met the soccer super coach at the club's headquarters on

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Speaker 1: a trip to Shanghai.

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Speaker 3: It's a pleasure to meet him.

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Speaker 2: I suspected, I actually to him when I met him

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Speaker 2: a few months ago, that I wouldn't be surprised if

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Speaker 2: he got a tap to be asked to meet the

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Speaker 2: Prime Minister on this trip, because there just aren't very

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Speaker 2: many good stories like that of Australians doing well in

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Speaker 2: China right now.

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Speaker 3: They're very few on the ground.

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Speaker 2: So he's absolutely beloved amongst the fan base and has

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Speaker 2: done very good things at.

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Speaker 3: That club and clearly it's a club with a very.

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Speaker 2: Good culture at the moment and that's being set at

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Speaker 2: the top by Kevin.

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Speaker 1: But it's not all about soccer. This week's visit to

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Speaker 1: China represents the longest bilateral visit Anthony Albanezi has made

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Speaker 1: in his time as Prime Minister. In the coming days,

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Speaker 1: he'll meet with President ji Jinping, Premier Li Chang and

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Speaker 1: National People's Congress Chairman Jao Lijeure.

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Speaker 2: Will.

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Speaker 1: Much of the focus of Anthony Albanese's trip to China

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Speaker 1: so far has been on tourism. But what's the overwriting

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Speaker 1: purpose of this visit.

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Speaker 2: China is a far and away Australia's biggest trade park.

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Speaker 3: It's our biggest customer.

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Speaker 2: China buys more from Australia than our next five biggest

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Speaker 3: It's just a super mega market.

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Speaker 2: So the top economic priority is the Prime Minister coming

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Speaker 2: over here and celebrating that and defending that there.

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Speaker 3: Are pockets of growth, but it's hard now.

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Speaker 2: And the real worry for the Australian government is there

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Speaker 2: are signs that some are the real giants in the

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Speaker 2: trade relationship in what we export to China, and top

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Speaker 2: of that is iron ore. There are some signs that

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Speaker 2: maybe that trade has peaked with China. That has just

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Speaker 2: grown and grown over decades and it's now worth more

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Speaker 2: than one hundred billion dollars a year. It's worth one

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Speaker 2: but the last few years it's gone down and there's

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Speaker 2: a long structural trend. Not that it's going to fall

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Speaker 2: for Cliff, but that it might just gradually come down

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Speaker 3: So that kind of four.

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Speaker 2: Can overwhelm the gains from a lot of these other

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Speaker 2: products that have been growing. There's other agricultural products that

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Speaker 2: came back after the ban years. So yeah, the trade

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Speaker 2: relationship in many ways is in a good state in

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Speaker 2: that there's no restrictions anymore. But you can now see

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Speaker 2: that there's certain segments in that export basket Australia has

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Speaker 2: to China that look like there might be some big

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Speaker 2: structural problems. And above all or the one that causes

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Speaker 2: the biggest worry, just because of how important it is

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Speaker 2: for the Australian economy and the Australian treasurer is iron Ore.

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Speaker 1: Fourteen executives from some of Australia's biggest companies are joining

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Speaker 1: the PM on the trip.

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Speaker 4: I've brought with me a whole range of business people

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Speaker 4: from the resources sector, the tourism sector, from the education sector.

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Speaker 4: Because one in four of Australian jobs is dependent upon

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Speaker 4: our export and overwhelmingly by far the largest destination for

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Speaker 4: Australian export is right here in China. That says something

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Speaker 4: about how important this relationship is.

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Speaker 2: Almost a third of them are in the iron ore

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Speaker 2: trade right. So there's the local boss of Rio Tinto,

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Speaker 2: the local boss of BHP, the chairman and founder Andrew

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Speaker 2: Forest of ford es Q, So the three biggest Australian

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Speaker 2: iron ore miners, they're all coming over here in big,

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Speaker 2: serious senior ways. And there's also the head of Australia's

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Speaker 2: steel business, blue Scope, coming over here. He'll also be

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Speaker 2: involved with those other iron ore companies in conversations with

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Speaker 2: Chinese counterparts about green steel and green iron, about ways

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Speaker 2: of making steel and making iron that release less carbon

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Speaker 2: will use less So that's almost a third of it,

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Speaker 2: which again speaks to the oversized role of iron ore

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Speaker 2: and steelmaking in the Australia China relationship. There's also the

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Speaker 2: head of the BCA, and there's the head of Macquarie

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Speaker 2: Group and a senior exec from A and Z. A

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Speaker 2: and Z, for example, is one of the Australian banks.

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Speaker 2: It's the one that had the biggest footprint in China.

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Speaker 2: But it's retrenched that they've sold almost all of their

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Speaker 2: who I'll be very interested to meet and talk to

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Speaker 2: to hear what are they seeing in China right now.

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Speaker 3: I mean they do business with China.

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Speaker 2: They still work and do some business with Chinese business firms,

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Speaker 2: but I think the ambitions they've had have been downsized

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Speaker 2: looking at some ways that they can grow certain segments

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Speaker 2: of that. But I'd be surprised actually if the finance

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Speaker 3: But that look see, maybe they'll surprise me on this

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Speaker 1: While Albo is in China, Beijing has eyes on Australia.

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Speaker 1: As Anthony Albanezi touchdown in China on the weekend, a

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Speaker 1: bilateral training exercise known as Talisman Saber got underway on

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Speaker 1: Australia's East Coast. It's the largest bilateral training exercise between

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Speaker 1: the Australian Defense Force and the US military, and it's

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Speaker 1: fair to say China is extremely interested in what plays out.

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Speaker 1: But in Shanghai, the Prime Minister was less forthcoming about

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Speaker 1: what role, if any Australia would play if a war

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Speaker 4: Well, I have discussions with people which are private and

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Speaker 4: I keep it private. But on defense spending, Australia is

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Speaker 4: considerably increasing our defense spending and will continue to invest

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Speaker 4: in whatever we need to improve our capability.

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Speaker 5: It's not surprising that Anthony Albanesi, speaking in China, is

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Speaker 5: reticent to talk about a potential future war between the

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Speaker 5: US and China and what role that Australia would play

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Speaker 5: in it. I mean, even at the best of times,

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Speaker 5: the government really bats away these types of questions.

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Speaker 1: Ben Packham is the Australian's Foreign Affairs and Defense correspondent.

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Speaker 5: So Anthony ALBERESI he's really walking in diplomatic tightrope during

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Speaker 5: this trip between talking up the economic relationship with China,

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Speaker 5: which is vital to Australia's national interests, but also the

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Speaker 5: alliance we have with the US and what that could

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Speaker 5: mean in the future if the US and China come

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Speaker 5: to blows over Taiwan.

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, The Financial Times reported the United States

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Speaker 1: Under Secretary for Defense Albridge Colby, the same guy who's

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Speaker 1: been putting the hard word on Australia to up defense

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Speaker 1: spending to three point five percent of GDP has been

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Speaker 1: pressing Australia and Japan on this very question.

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Speaker 5: Mister Colby's pretty forward leaning US defense bureaucrat. He's got

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Speaker 5: some long standing views on the US's need to push

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Speaker 5: its allies to really contribute to collective defense. He's on

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Speaker 5: the record of saying, why would we give Australia three

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Speaker 5: of our nuclear submarines when they might not be contributed

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Speaker 5: to a fight that we get in with China in

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Speaker 5: the coming years. There was a report in the Financial

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Speaker 5: Times that mister Colby was piling pressure on Australia and

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Speaker 5: Japan to clarify what role they would play if the

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Speaker 5: US and China went to war over Taiwan. Now, this

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Speaker 5: is despite the US's own policy of strategic ambiguity on

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Speaker 5: what it would do in terms of Taiwan contingency. But

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Speaker 5: Kolby has really endorsed that report, posting on social media

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Speaker 5: that Donald Trump is urging US allies to step up

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Speaker 5: their defense spending and other efforts in terms of our

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Speaker 5: collective defense. So he's really not walking away from this.

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Speaker 5: And all of this does raise some serious concerns I

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Speaker 5: think about how the Orchestra Review is going to shake out.

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Speaker 5: Koby is heading that review and it really could introduce

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Speaker 5: some new elements to the agreement that might be a

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Speaker 5: little bit more onerous on Australia and we're really going

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Speaker 5: to have to just wait to see how that sort

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Speaker 1: Ben Packham is the Australian's Foreign Affairs and Defense correspondent

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Speaker 1: and Will Glasgow is our North Asia correspondent. They're on

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Speaker 1: the ground in China with Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi this week.

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