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Speaker 1: FBI or expanding as you know, cash Good morning, mate,

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Speaker 1: good Is this real? I mean or is this just

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Speaker 1: the door with a sign on it that says the

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Speaker 1: FBI is in town. Are they actually got some cops

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Speaker 1: and they're doing some stuff.

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Speaker 2: I think what's interesting here, Mike is the framing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's not new for a FBI director to visit New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: James Comey remember him visited New Zealand back in twenty

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Speaker 2: sixteen and twenty seventeen, and they actually opened a sub

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Speaker 2: office back then, which was effectively a branch office out

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Speaker 2: of the office in Candra. But what is different this

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Speaker 2: time is that cash Bit's openly saying this is about

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Speaker 2: countering the Chinese Communist Party and the Endo Pacific. That

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Speaker 2: those are the first words that he used when he

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Speaker 2: gave his video message about why he was here. And

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Speaker 2: I think it's somewhat uncomfortable to the New Zealand sign.

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Speaker 2: But you have to wonder about the politics of all

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Speaker 2: of this, whether some dealer is also being done, given

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Speaker 2: today is deadline day for the tariffs, whether hosting a

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Speaker 2: visit by Oh.

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Speaker 1: Here we go and join me, are you, Jeffrey You're

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Speaker 1: going to say open up a new office, and we'll

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Speaker 1: give you twelve percent, not fifteen.

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Speaker 2: You have to remember Donald Trump is the is the

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Speaker 2: deal maker in chief. Yep. So you know everything is

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Speaker 2: on the table when it comes to the Trump administration.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't put it past them. And of course these

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Speaker 2: words from Cash battal about China have clearly irritated the

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Speaker 2: Chinese Embassy and Wellington. They put it out of statement

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Speaker 2: last night condemning what they call a groundless assertions and

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Speaker 2: vilification of China. So it's certainly roughle feathers, and it's

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Speaker 2: a very interesting one.

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Speaker 1: We are in such a tricky spot, aren't we. We

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Speaker 1: love the Chinese because we've got you know, forty billion

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Speaker 1: dollars worth of two way with them. But you know,

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Speaker 1: when Cash comes to town and Donald's doing I mean,

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Speaker 1: we don't know what we're doing. We're looking one way

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Speaker 1: and the other way. We're sort of stuck, aren't we.

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Speaker 2: Indeed? Trying to threat the needle constantly, and it's a

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Speaker 2: really tricky battle if you're the government right now. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Christopher lux And had that very successful visit to China

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Speaker 2: back in June, had those meetings with Chi Jiping, with

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Speaker 2: bou Chang. The premiere all went well and very much

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Speaker 2: trying to keep things on an even keel with China,

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Speaker 2: which is remember the New Zealand's biggest trading partner and

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Speaker 2: still around a third of our exports go to China

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Speaker 2: every year and that is what is really propelling the

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Speaker 2: economy at the moment, the rise and the export trade,

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Speaker 2: and a huge amount of that is going to China,

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Speaker 2: all the meat and dairy exports. So Christopher Luxen is

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Speaker 2: loath to do anything to upset the apple cut when

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Speaker 2: it comes to that, but Yetie has to also remember

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Speaker 2: what the United States wants of New Zealand, because New

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Speaker 2: Zealand is trying to keep on good terms with the

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Speaker 2: Trump administration and when you look at the whole games

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Speaker 2: with tariff, that's very much in play.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, have a good week in Jeffer Jeffrey Miller, geopolitical analyst.

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