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Russia and China lead Australian public fears · The Slippery Slope

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  All right, Jay felon here and thank you for listening to the
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  slippery slope. So you know quite often I've
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  been talking probably the last couple of months about China and
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  questioning what their desires are for the region.
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  Obviously they're trying to project power into the region.
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  I believe this is why the trying to do these deals with all these
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  island nations in our region. It will not surprise me if They
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  end up with some kind of military base or try to put a
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  military base in the Solomon Islands and as I've spoken at
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  before I do think, unless rhetoric changes from China,
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  from America, from Taiwan, from Japan from Australia, I think
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  we're probably going to head for War.
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  I just think that's the way it is because it seems like an all
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  those. All specially China seems like
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  they really want one, they want to, I think they want to show
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  They pale, they've built up this big military and I think they
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  would like to show the rest of the world.
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  Hey, this is what we can do and Taiwan would be a good
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  expression of that. Anyway, this brings me to this
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  article, which came through on crikey, the headline says
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  Russian invasion. China, lead public fears here in
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  Australia. So, Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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  and potential conflict over Taiwan have topped.
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  Straley has concerns And this is according to a new poll, so a
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  large majority of Australian. See China as a military threat
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  while confidence, in president Xi Jinping sits at record lows,
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  the quite frankly, a dance. I don't understand how we could
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  anyone can ever have confidence in president Xi Jinping or any
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  authoritarian Nations such as China.
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  This is in, this is what really I find hard to understand when
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  we're dealing. When we have these little deals
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  going With the nation like China, they're an authoritarian
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  nation and it's not like the people themselves, okay?
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  They might be nice, if find you can trust them.
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  But the government's because if it's an authoritarian Nation,
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  how can we do these deals and think that we can trust them?
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  It's always just baffles me. Anyway, going on in this, it
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  says that most Australians would support the Defence Force being
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  becoming engaged in a conflict between Taiwan and China.
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  China. Wow.
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  Okay. With concerns about a potential
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  War outstripping. The previously leading concerns
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  over con covid-19 and climate change.
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  So, the research shows the extent to which Russia's
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  invasion of Ukraine has upended Australia's thoughts about their
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  own security. This is a polling director.
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  Natasha, Chasm has said more than two-thirds of respondents
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  listed Russia at the top of a list of threats to Australia's
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  vital interests while I've sent also raising concerns about
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  China's foreign policy. So Australia's new government
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  will find support for more defense spending tough policies
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  towards China and Russia and stronger engagement in our
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  region and on the world stage Ms. Chasm said, there's a
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  growing awareness of the countries in our region at that
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  are democracies and concern. About the authoritarian States
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  Australians remain positive. Positive at globalization and
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  free trade and far fewer. See covid-19 as a threat in
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  2022. I wonder why that is so three.
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  Quarters of respondents said, it's either very or somewhat
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  likely China will become a military threat to Australia in
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  the next 20 years. Well represent which represents
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  an increase of 29 Points since 2019 like this that's very
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  generous saying it's likely that China will become a military
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  threat to Australia in the next 20 years.
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  Sorry I think people really don't know or understand or
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  they're really not comprehending what China is doing what China
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  has been doing for the last couple of years.
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  China is already a military threat.
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  They already project power, they are They didn't mind sending
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  their little surveillance ships or they're being surveillance
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  ships and circumnavigating Australia, they don't mind
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  projecting power. And in trying to bully
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  Australian aircraft when we're in international waters, they
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  are already a military threat happen, we say what's what we'll
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  do you live in? If you think that it's that
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  China will become a military threat within the next. 20
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  years, people there already a threat go on.
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  More than two-thirds say a conflict between the US and
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  China is a critical threat in. Just over half, say the
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  Australian Defence Force should be called upon if the u.s.
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  intervened in a conflict. Over Taiwan the prospect of a
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  military base in the Pacific. After Beijing has concerns, the
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  majority of Australians, while 93% thing foreign aid in the
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  Pacific should be increased. Fears about the rise of
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  authoritarianism including in the indo-pacific, has resulted
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  in overwhelming support for the acquisition of nuclear
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  submarines and participation in security alliances like caucus
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  and the quad seventy percent are in favor of nuclear-powered
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  submarines and just over half the population.
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  Want to see an increase in defense spending just over half
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  say orcas and the quad alliances make Australia safe.
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  Also only one in ten. Respondents said, they have a
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  lot or some confidence in president she to do the right
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  thing regarding world affairs. Well, I don't think, but no
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  confidence in him doing the right thing when it comes to
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  world affairs. So, the release of the results
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  come less than a week after China's, ambassador to
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  Australia, told the Australia, China, China relations
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  Institute. The country was not seeking to
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  alter the current rules based World Order.
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  That's natural. China supports necessary reform.
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  This funny, it supports necessary reform, or what?
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  It's deems as Serie fault. Anything within their favor,
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  anything that tips, the scales towards them, that's the
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  necessary reform that ID and improvements to the
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  international order system. So as to make it more just and
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  Equitable, but China does not seek to start a new one.
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  The this is what Xiao qian has said well yeah they don't want
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  to start a new one, they just want to tilt it more with in
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  their favor. That's what they want to do
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  because the new one Works already, they want reform so it
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  all goes towards them. It also says that he says, sorry
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  China will firmly uphold International System with the
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  United States at its core. The international order based on
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  international law. Like I said, China wants to be
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  the top dog, I've said this before in previous podcast, they
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  want to be known as definitely as a superpower.
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  I believe that they are pushing. They really want to become the
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  soup. Out in the world.
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  They are pushing for this power projection with specially within
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  this region of Australia. They don't like a nation like
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  Australia which obviously we don't have the population, they
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  do. But we do have quite a good
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  military and we are able to project power, probably a lot
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  more than what the what a nation of our size would generally be
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  able to do and that's only because of our wealth in reality
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  but we are able to project power.
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  Quite well. So, China is trying to curb
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  that, they want to make it that they are the military might
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  definitely in this region and they want us to be seen as the
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  preeminent superpower. Like I said, like I said before,
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  this is definitely one to watch, keep an eye on what's going to
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  happen. Obviously with everything I
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  believe eyes on God. Jesus is the answer.
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  Okay. Not like we have to freak out.
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  However, these are still things which will affect the people of
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  Australia, for sure, in probably America.
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  So they're going to affect our region.
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  It's definitely something we should be watching.
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  Definitely something that's my opinion.
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