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racism in society, leaves monday shows l g b t q, community alone. and under pressure the i'm british kind of do welcome to the the news aisha. i'm glad you could join us over the weekend. the navy's of russia and china ended 3 weeks of joint drills and patrols. russia said the exercises in the pacific ocean covered everything from replenishment of supplies, etc, to empty somebody in drills and c. rescue training. join us at the drills want aimed at the cold 3rd party that didn't prevent japan, however, from scrambling. fighter jets on friday, off the russian patrol aircraft was seen off the sea of japan and the east china sea. and jeremy, nothing more context is even strong. he's

a political scientist of the national university of single and specializes in international relations in the asia pacific. and chinese, a foreign policy professor strong. in addition to this latest patrol, there was a joint, a patrol just last july, over the sea of japan and the east china see in addition to at least 5 military exercises. last, the question is, why are china and russia stepping up really tree cooperation in the pacific? so with the russian trying to relationship, one of the things that they're trying to do is to count to what they see as us competition and us pressure. and by having the exercises and it is right in the pacific new us allies, i guess it sends a signal that the, the russians and the chinese come together put pressure on uh, on washington where washington with things we method for washington. so i guess

that's a what a shot across the bow to not a pass of push russia to fall in, in the ukraine and also not to push the p. c to fall in the, in the pacific. you know, one is signaling and then the other is if you're ality and the reason i ask that is because you actually see a scenario, for instance in which russian naval troops come to the aid of chinese ships in the south china sea, for example. as so the russian naval presents in this part of the world, especially in the south try to cease by more limited for them to sustain operations . they would need a lot of re supply right now. you know, russia is quite stretched because of its aggression to ukraine. so i guess what we could see more is perhaps some sort of collaboration or assistance in northeast asia, most of the southeast asia. but even then, it would complicate the coffee list for united states for south korea, for, for uh, for jack japan,

and indeed i probably taiwan as well. so i guess that is the point right, to complicate the calculus for an adversary. but how much of a club are they really, a china and russia put together? i mean, given russia streamed naval and land forces as a result of the ukraine wall. so in this part of the world, the p i c is, you know, far more serious in terms of putting pressure. but the russians, i suppose, have fairly capable naval vessels, submarines that could if use put pressure. but i mean, that is really further off right now, what we're seeing a lot more of is the sort of grays on activity by chinese maritime release shots by p. c. coast guard. so right now is all signaling i think for and in the event where you would see actual russian involvement that would pretty be pretty high up the escalation that the so a lot of other things would probably need to happen 1st. and you know that in that

case, whether the, when you create a so ongoing or whether some other developments have, well, we're taking it uh that's less go talk to separate about the kind of joined patrols exercises and drills that you're seeing. i mean, what the scenario of the to military is preparing for or so it appears was a bit of range of things, right? that they've been having exercises on land as well. but i suppose it's to show that they can operate together when it comes to the and maritime space, which is very, very important in the pacific. much of the into pacific is a maritime theater, as opposed to a land based data. and so to show that they can operate together that they can um, you know, provide the assistance we kind of provide cover for each other as they come the operations. i guess that's the real thing that they've been doing. and i'm more than anything else. um, it's really a show a false rather than anything that's quite concrete at the moment. i mean,

we haven't seen that, you know, truly, you know, very, very sophisticated kinds of say, um, uh, anti submarine. all sort of going all kinds of preparations for, for wolf. so right now it's not up at that level. i suppose what we're seeing is a scaling up possibly. but more than that, it's really the show of the mattress, ottoman saying similar responses from other countries in terms of joint exercises as well. because you have the us south could you have drills for example, stopping today and as talk of new drills between south korea and japan in the us. and we've not even looked at other joint exercises involving india, the us, philippines of japan and other nations as um, there's also the japan us australia of joint exercises happening in the south china . so, you know, so yeah, certainly there's a lot of, um, fostering right now uh, there's something to the fostering, actually. so on the us side of the us and its allies, the point is deterrence,

right? they're trying to signal to the p. c. and on and then also to the, to, to russia that should they decide to upset the piece for they decide to change the status quote, you know, actually the costs and the risk will be extremely high. now, for the p. c, in the russian side, i suppose what they are trying to show is that yes, that may be all of this deterrence, but you know, to be able to carry off. it's going to be pretty costly and difficult on the us. and the allied side as well. so what we're seeing is this sort of, as i said, us slow, it's are ramping up of activities which suggest that which is just as a rising tension of the region. rising tensions in the region is the region headed to matter, time conflict? you think so a lot will come down to whether the parents works. if determines works and there is

no incentive to escalate. then, you know, a lot of this sort of preparation may actually work for a better end, but to turn to the delicate game, you could get it wrong. you could over the truck to, you could assure too much. and that could lead the target of your deterrence to an act in ways that you've told it not to. so i guess we're all in some ways betting that loved the signaling is going to be useful in discouraging any adventures. but whether that actually works, i mean in some ways it's a bit we leave a barrel. thank you so much for all the contacts professor, even john from the national university of single thank so thank you. and 0 to some other stories making headlines across asia. south korean president union suck year old has vowed strong to find that for poor for nation with japan and the united states. if north korea's threats increase you and was speaking ethic cabinet

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and political ties with fluids. chris kolber, welcome to the program. china has cut one of its key lending rates in an effort to spur the recovery of the world's 2nd largest economy. china's economy is still growing, but at a slower rate then was previously expected. that's due to worsening. there were some properties lump of weak consumer spending and tumbling credit for the countries. central bank has now cut one rate while leaving some others on touch. surprising at experts read expected further reaching measures, georgia magnus, and associate at the china center at oxford university. a welcome to w. what impact is this interest rate current going to have? well, i don't think it's really going to have a very much effective tool, really. i mean be the one year rate which was reduced by 15 basis points. it's

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