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Speaker 1: I'm sad to report that Winston Peters is wrong. His

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Speaker 1: thinking that the Pacific Favor's friendship has been proven nave

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Speaker 1: As I've always said, checkbooks win, and we don't have

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Speaker 1: a checkbook. And even his goodwill ges Durre in twenty

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Speaker 1: seventeen when he lined up alongside Labor and handed out

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Speaker 1: that billion dollars has proven wayfully short. The Chinese have

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Speaker 1: shown over the weekend the world is changing, and in

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Speaker 1: a dramatic way. And we haven't even mentioned the word

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Speaker 1: Trump yet. The Cook's deal is about mining the sea bed.

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Speaker 1: It's about things at great depth and the ocean that

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Speaker 1: are worth a fortune, and the Chinese want their hands

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Speaker 1: on it. Meantime, the Chinese Navy's arrived locally. Of course,

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Speaker 1: we're busy diverting planes while having no idea while they've

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Speaker 1: done what they've done. Best reasoning I've seen so far

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Speaker 1: is from McK ryan, who appears on this program periodically.

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Speaker 1: His ex military and a great thinker. He's deeply worried,

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Speaker 1: and if he is, we should be as well. His

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Speaker 1: theory is the Chinese reminding Australia that you might want

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Speaker 1: to stay local instead of wandering off and doing your

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Speaker 1: exercises in places like Oh, I don't know Taiwan. If

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Speaker 1: you don't know what's coming and when you stay local,

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Speaker 1: makes sense they're sending a message. Is it least legal? Yes,

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Speaker 1: international waters, international law. Nothing's been broken apart from the

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Speaker 1: fact they're route by not letting anybody know. But then

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Speaker 1: that's the point, of course. There's also a sense that

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Speaker 1: some sort of picking of sides is coming orcus or

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Speaker 1: no orcus. Oh, we might like to think about that

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Speaker 1: as well. We might also like to look at our

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Speaker 1: defense forces of Judith Collins mentioned earlier on the program,

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Speaker 1: and wonder yet again if we've tried our luck on

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Speaker 1: just a little bit long and what's left of what

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Speaker 1: we might need needs a bit of dough spending on it.

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Speaker 1: But as for the Pacific, Mark Brown will say nice things,

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Speaker 1: of course he will, But money talks in it has talked.

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Speaker 1: The Pacific generally are being or have been bought off

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Speaker 1: by Chinese money, whether it's security like the Solomon's or

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Speaker 1: mining like the Cook's. Friendship doesn't solve any of it.

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