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Speaker 1: Husky seven twenty four. The irony is growing, I think

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Speaker 1: greater by the day. What to do with China? Our

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Speaker 1: the Premier has been in New Zealand. Of course Australia

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Speaker 1: at the moment we rolled out the red carpet, they

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Speaker 1: announced a visa deal for travelers. They also wanted us

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Speaker 1: to put our differences aside. Now the differences were more

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Speaker 1: pronounced than Australia. If you're following us, two are there.

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Speaker 1: When Scott Morrison asked for an inquiry into the origins

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Speaker 1: of COVID, the Chinese went nuts, hit the tariff lever

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Speaker 1: and punished Australia for a number of years on beef

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Speaker 1: and baralley and wine. Those tariffs have only just been unwound.

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Speaker 1: The reason is because basically they didn't work. China is

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Speaker 1: a bully and their bullying got called out. Meantime, in Europe,

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Speaker 1: NATO are openly discussing tariffs against them for supporting the

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Speaker 1: war in Ukraine. They have also thrown tariffs at them

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Speaker 1: because they jerrymandered the international markets and the vs and

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Speaker 1: solar panels. The Chinese have made so many of them

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Speaker 1: they're basically dumping them. Australia wisely has reduced their trading

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Speaker 1: reliance on China. It was once forty percent of everything

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Speaker 1: they did, it's now twenty five percent. What about us?

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Speaker 1: Can we say the same, No, we cannot. We are trapped.

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Speaker 1: We have become so embedded. We must now pretend a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff that is happening doesn't matter. China

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Speaker 1: supports Russia, it does business with them, It hosts Putin,

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Speaker 1: it buys its oil. Are we outraged, No, certainly, not publicly.

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Speaker 1: Once upon a time it was the weigas. Now we've

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Speaker 1: got a whole damn war, and yet we pretend we

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Speaker 1: can separate all of these things out China are increasingly

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Speaker 1: in the Pacific, So Luxe and Peters circle the place

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Speaker 1: with handouts and handshakes and talk of long established friendships

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Speaker 1: and the belief that mates beats money. Small clue it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Europe is looking to slap sanctions. We are looking to

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Speaker 1: grow business. Someone isn't on the right side of this.

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