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Are world leaders ganging up on Trump? · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm christinami.
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  Speaker 1: It it's Monday, November twenty four, twenty twenty five. Australian
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  Speaker 1: now at the Australian dot com dot AU. US President
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump is fuming over a decision by more than
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  Speaker 1: a dozen world leaders to defy his policy agenda. They
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  Speaker 1: went big on the Paris Agreement and net zero at
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  Speaker 1: the G twenty leader's Summit, and it's assigned the US
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  Speaker 1: President's global influence is on the wayne. That's today's episode.
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  Speaker 1: In May, during a meeting with South African President Cyril
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  Speaker 1: Ramaposa at the White House. US President Donald Trump made
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  Speaker 1: a startling claim.
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  Speaker 2: So we take from many locations. If we fail, there's
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  Speaker 2: persecution or genocide going on. And we had a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people. I must tell you, mister President, we have
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  Speaker 2: had a tremendous number of people, especially since we've seen this.
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  Speaker 2: Generally they are waite farmers and they're fleeing South Africa,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a very sad thing to see.
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  Speaker 1: A week earlier, the United States granted asylum to sixty Africanas,
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  Speaker 1: despite denials by South African officials from across the political
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  Speaker 1: spectrum that any such persecution was occurring. But Trump felt
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  Speaker 1: so strongly about the issue that he boycotted the annual
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  Speaker 1: G twenty Leader summit, which happened in Johannesburg over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Ramaposa said it was a missed opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: It's always best to be inside the tent than being
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  Speaker 3: outside of the tent. The tent is the G twenty.
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  Speaker 3: All countries are here, and the United States, being the
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  Speaker 3: biggest economy in the world, needs to be here.
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  Speaker 1: And the White House, well, they disagreed. He is Press
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  Speaker 1: Secretary Caroline leave It.
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  Speaker 4: I saw the South African president running his mouth a
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  Speaker 4: little bit against the United States and the President of
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  Speaker 4: the United States earlier today, and that language is not
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  Speaker 4: appreciated by the President or his team.
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  Speaker 1: In Trump's absence, world leaders who attended the summit, including
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  Speaker 1: Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi, united in an act of defiance
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  Speaker 1: against the US president's agenda.
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  Speaker 5: Now the world's largest economies have to fight Donald Trump
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  Speaker 5: by agreeing to a leader's declaration of the G twenty,
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  Speaker 5: a unified plan the place's strong emphasis on accelerating global
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  Speaker 5: climate action.
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  Speaker 6: One by one, the leaders of major economies representing eighty
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  Speaker 6: five percent of global GDP and two thirds of the
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  Speaker 6: world's population rejected Donald Trump's view of the world.
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  Speaker 7: You know, the odds saying is that if you don't
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  Speaker 7: attend the lunch, you are lunch.
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is the Australian's chief international correspondent.
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  Speaker 7: And to a degree, that's what we saw play out
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  Speaker 7: in Johannesburg. We had the G twenty leaders there talking
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  Speaker 7: about their own agenda and they put out a very
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  Speaker 7: very traditional, if you like, rule of law kind of
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  Speaker 7: old fashion statement which really strongly backed the climent change
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  Speaker 7: initiatives of the Paris agreement, even talked about net zero,
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  Speaker 7: talked about the importance of free and fair trade across
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  Speaker 7: the world, and basically just how important multilateralism is, the
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  Speaker 7: multilateral institutions. Of course, all of that is very anti Trumpian. So,
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  Speaker 7: if you like, we are seeing in this one of
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  Speaker 7: the very first examples of Donald Trump's waning influence on
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  Speaker 7: world bodies. It was really quite striking that the G
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  Speaker 7: twenty felt brave enough to put out this statement. I
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  Speaker 7: think even as a much just three or four months ago,
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  Speaker 7: they wouldn't have done it in this manner. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 7: is having a tough time at the moment on his
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  Speaker 7: signature economic policy. He is tariffs, which he levied across
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  Speaker 7: the world. He's finding, not surprisingly, that they're not helping
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  Speaker 7: in lowering consumer prices. In the United States, a grocery
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  Speaker 7: price is still very high, and in fact, earlier this
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  Speaker 7: month he actually signed an executive order removing tariffs on
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  Speaker 7: al a lot of food imports in the United States,
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  Speaker 7: including Australian beef. And the reason why he did that
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  Speaker 7: was because he's worried about high crisis of grocery products
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  Speaker 7: and that's leading to a demise in his popularity. So
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  Speaker 7: that's the first plank. The second plank, of course, is
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  Speaker 7: United States Supreme Court is reviewing the legality, the constitutional
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  Speaker 7: legality off his tariffs. Now they had a quick look
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  Speaker 7: at it the other day, the Supreme Court and asked
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  Speaker 7: a lot of very hostile questions, which made a lot
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  Speaker 7: of people think that they might actually strike down his
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  Speaker 7: tariff regime when they deliver a final verdict, which will
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  Speaker 7: probably be in the first half of next year. So
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  Speaker 7: on that front, Trump is taking a bit of a
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  Speaker 7: battering within his own party. Kristin his MAGA loyalists are
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  Speaker 7: asking questions of him that we haven't seen before. Of course,
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  Speaker 7: we've seen the spectacular fallout between himself and Marjorie Taylor Green,
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  Speaker 7: the very prominent MAGA congresswoman who now says she's going
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  Speaker 7: to leave Congress after Trump fell out with her and
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  Speaker 7: branded her a trador. Now, look, he's got a lot
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  Speaker 7: of popularity, a lot of support. That doesn't help Trump.
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  Speaker 7: There is a cohort of mega Trump supporters who are
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  Speaker 7: disturbed by a he's fall out with her. He's handling
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  Speaker 7: of the Jeffrey Epstein files, which of course he has
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  Speaker 7: been reluctant to have released all the way through. He
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  Speaker 7: is releasing them now only because he's been pressured to
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  Speaker 7: and of course some isolationist MAGA identities are not happy
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  Speaker 7: with America's involved in foreign conflicts still, from the Middle
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  Speaker 7: East to Ukraine to even the Nezuela. So he put
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  Speaker 7: all those things together their Christian He's having a reasonably
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  Speaker 7: tough time at the moment, which we haven't seen him suffer,
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  Speaker 7: if you like, since he was re elected, and in fact,
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  Speaker 7: Royce's pole release last week, so he's approvalrating is now
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  Speaker 7: thirty eight percent, which is the lowest of his presidency.
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  Speaker 7: So it's certainly taking a toll.
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  Speaker 1: He said there that if you don't attend the lunch,
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  Speaker 1: you are lunch. Cyril Ramaposa said, it's his position that
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  Speaker 1: boycott politics don't work. Was he right in this instance?
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  Speaker 7: I think Trump wasn't wise not to attend the G twenty,
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  Speaker 7: his favorite summit. You know, it's a lot about the
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  Speaker 7: developing world wanting things from the developed world. It's a
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  Speaker 7: very consensus bace grouping normally simply because it's hard to
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  Speaker 7: get definitive statements from such a big broad group of
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  Speaker 7: countries that include you know, China, et cetera. Et cetera.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, he boycotted on the grounds that he believes
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  Speaker 7: that white farmers are getting victimized and killed in South Africa,
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  Speaker 7: and that's part of the South African government's policy and
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  Speaker 7: that's wrong. But that's not a massive reason for Trump
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  Speaker 7: to boycott the actual summit. I don't think. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: some of those claims are contested. You can take it
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  Speaker 7: either way. But the bottom line is that Trump, I
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  Speaker 7: don't think, wanted to come to this summit.
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  Speaker 1: This Joint Communica, as you said, was unanimously endorsed by
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  Speaker 1: all G twenty member nations except the United States, that
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  Speaker 1: includes the United Kingdom, Canada and China. Is Australia's participation
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  Speaker 1: likely to have any impact on our bilateral relationship with
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  Speaker 1: the US? Do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 7: Look, I don't think so. I think there's enough cover
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  Speaker 7: there if you like, for US. I mean, Anthony Albernezi
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  Speaker 7: was very careful in what he said. He certainly didn't
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  Speaker 7: say anything that would particularly upset the US. He's just
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  Speaker 7: at the very successful meeting, of course, with Donald Trump
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  Speaker 7: in Washington. The relationship is otherwise going well.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 7: Trump hasn't beaten up on Australia with tariffs compared to
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  Speaker 7: other countries. I don't think there's anything that's going to
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  Speaker 7: be dangerous for Australia with this. But you know, it's
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  Speaker 7: interesting that as a group the G twenty, he felt
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  Speaker 7: the collective protection if your life, of everybody pushing back
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  Speaker 7: against some of Donald Trump's agenda. They felt safe enough
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  Speaker 7: to do that in that group.
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  Speaker 1: Prome Minister Anthony Alberanez he said at the G twenty
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  Speaker 1: summit he won't limit Australia's coal exports and his government
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  Speaker 1: will support new gas projects as a backup in the
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  Speaker 1: transition to renewables.
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  Speaker 5: All of the energy experts so the cheapest form of
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  Speaker 5: transition is renewables, back by gas, back by hydro, back
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  Speaker 5: by batteries.
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  Speaker 2: That's Australia's position.
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  Speaker 1: But just last week at the COP thirty Climate summit
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  Speaker 1: in Brazil, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen endorsed
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  Speaker 1: a pledge to phase out fossil fuels in a bid
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  Speaker 1: to keep the global temperature rise below one point five
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  Speaker 1: degrees celsius. So how does that wash on the global stage.
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  Speaker 1: Is the Albanese labor government trying to have its cake
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  Speaker 1: and eat it too when it comes to climate to.
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  Speaker 7: An extent, you could interpret it that way. I think
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  Speaker 7: Anthony Alberici's comments on gas definitely directed entirely at the
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  Speaker 7: domestic audience here. I mean, if he starts abandoning gas,
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  Speaker 7: then he's going to be in big strife with the electorate.
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  Speaker 7: So I think his comments, if you like, are the
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  Speaker 7: reality of where the government sits, probably rather than Bowen's
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  Speaker 7: rhetorical flourishes on these things. That would be my interpretation.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, what about Donald Trump's vision for Ukraine. The Communicy,
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  Speaker 1: endorsed by all but one g twenty member nation in
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  Speaker 1: Johannesburg on the weekend, included a broad pledge to bring
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  Speaker 1: peace to nations afflicted by war. We've used AI to
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  Speaker 1: bring parts of the statement to life.
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  Speaker 8: We will work for a just, comprehensive and lasting peace
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  Speaker 8: in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the occupied Palestinian territory, Ukraine,
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  Speaker 8: as well as ending other conflicts and wars around the globe.
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  Speaker 1: But ending the war in Ukraine is presenting a unique challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, a twenty eight point peace plan drafted by
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  Speaker 1: the United States Special Envoy Steve Witkoff was leaked to
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  Speaker 1: the media. Ukraine wasn't involved in the formulation of that plan,
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  Speaker 1: and unsurprisingly it looks good for Russia. It would require
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  Speaker 1: Ukrainian President Vladimir Zlensky to hand over vast sweds of
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  Speaker 1: land to Russia and capit's ability to defend itself in future.
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  Speaker 1: It would also leave it up to Europe to deal
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  Speaker 1: with whatever happens after the fighting stops, and that's got
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  Speaker 1: some European leaders offside. Here's Cameron Stewart.
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  Speaker 7: This is going to be a real test of Donald
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  Speaker 7: Trump's persuasiveness, if you like, but also how willing he
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  Speaker 7: is to really push this. At the moment, he's framing
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  Speaker 7: it to Ukraine to Vladimir Zelensky, Ukrainian leader, as an ultimatum.
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  Speaker 7: He says, I want Ukraine to agree to this within
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  Speaker 7: a week now. Zelensky's been a reasonably diplomatic I think
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  Speaker 7: he's learnt from his previous fighting with Donald Trump not
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  Speaker 7: to come out swinging. But nevertheless, Zelensky said a remarkable
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  Speaker 7: thing to his people over the weekend. He said, we
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  Speaker 7: are now facing a very difficult choice between surrendering some
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  Speaker 7: of our dignity or losing a key partner, and it
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  Speaker 7: would be very difficult for Lelensky to sign this and
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  Speaker 7: remain in power in the Ukraine. And I think so
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  Speaker 7: Trump is under a fair bit of pressure to rebalance,
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  Speaker 7: if you like this peace proposal. So it'll be really
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  Speaker 7: fascinated to see what happens in the days ahead. How
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  Speaker 7: far will he go down that road or will he
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  Speaker 7: stand his ground and say no, take it or leave it.
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  Speaker 7: This is what you've got.
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  Speaker 1: Cameron Stewart is The Australian's chief international correspondent. You can
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  Speaker 1: read his commentary on Donald Trump's rough patch right now
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  Speaker 1: at the Australian dot com dot au.