What should we take away from from this meeting with the prime minister of Australia that that has not, you know, has been a long time coming. It has not happened until now. >> Yeah, that's right.A fairly warm meeting between two men from opposite ends of the political spectrum here. The president and the prime minister announcing what I'm told by a White House official is a $3 billion joint venture product project to develop critical minerals between these two companies countries rather that they believe c ...

One is, you know, just what was on display. There was a lot of new kit, if you like, you know, some stuff that hadn't been public in the West before. And we it was a display that, you know, any parade is just a parade.But we already are starting to see little pieces of, you know, combat action that show the capabilities of China's equipment, something that was always a kind of huge question mark before. So you had recently the conflict between India and Pakistan, in which Pakistan had Chinese jets with Chin ...

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