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Ryan Bridge: We need more positivity · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Look, this might sound a little bit patronizing, but this
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  Speaker 1: country needs a positive mindset. We need our number eight wire.
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  Speaker 1: Fix it, don't moan about it attitude in New Zealand's
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  Speaker 1: and the doldrums trumps that wore in the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: oils choked up Shijingping talking overnight about Taiwan again. And
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  Speaker 1: for some perspective, if Taiwan kicks off, which some in
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence community reckon would happen as early as next year,
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  Speaker 1: then things will change pretty quickly. The world could be
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  Speaker 1: held to ransom over semiconductors, not oil. Global GDP could
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  Speaker 1: drop five percent. That's COVID era GFC level stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: for US some sort of quarantine or blockade would be
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  Speaker 1: very bad. China is our number one trading partner, twenty
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five percent of our exports, and we're an
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  Speaker 1: export nation. If they do what everyone expects that they
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  Speaker 1: will do, then they'd be Western sanctions. And what happens
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  Speaker 1: to our goods when there's Western sanctions? The tap gets
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  Speaker 1: turned off or we turned a blind eye, but that's
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  Speaker 1: highly unlikely. When I lived in Beijing, Taiwan was a
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  Speaker 1: constant topic of conversation along with high because well They're
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  Speaker 1: very important to the Chinese, not just for historical reasons
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  Speaker 1: but strategic ones. Their entire eastern seaboard, which is within
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  Speaker 1: spitting distance by the way of Beijing, their political center, Shanghai,
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  Speaker 1: Commercial center, manufacturing, heavy industry, port cities all along that coastline,
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  Speaker 1: and across the Pacific Ocean sits America. So any buffer
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  Speaker 1: is a good buffer, thank you very much. This is
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  Speaker 1: not to say we should freak out, but that we
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  Speaker 1: should be prepared and stay positive. Greg Faran had covided
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  Speaker 1: in New Zealand. Nicol Ravashanka's got a jet fuel crisis.
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  Speaker 1: The next guy will have something else. The hits won't
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  Speaker 1: stop coming. The world is smaller and dependent on each
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  Speaker 1: other via global trade, and that means that a coffin
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  Speaker 1: Taiwan means a cold and Southland, New Zealand. The best
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  Speaker 1: we can do is diversify ourselves II India and keep
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  Speaker 1: a positive mindset. Solutions, Solutions, Pivot and Solutions for more
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