and a life not oh richard, becca, anti activist at on to add ons coalition. so richard, thank you very much indeed for joining us right now. well, do you think this is really advance? it's difficult not to think it's a bed to push back against china's growing influence in the region. what can you say? well, i was, i would say 1st of all are going to china overwhelmingly, against china, shot at france as well. by trying to win away the contract in the submarine contract that revoked mainly against china. and you know, it's a very strange is there was a very strange press conference present by them. couldn't remember the name of the prime minister of, of australia. there's no explanation, why would these countries be getting together when bring them together? and i think that reminded me of winston churchill chauvinists. they can races a 6 volume, the history of the english speaking peoples or something like that. or there's no explanation. why are the u. s. and the u. k. now, at this time, hoping australia develop a nuclear power. good morning, mr. and then tur

richard becca about australia's choice of military partners and where this could all be leading. there's no explanation, why are the u. s. and the u. k. now, at this time helping australia develop a nuclear power suite of submarines and then turning around and saying this will advance the world peace. clearly this is about another war. this is about a war that is being prepared against china. the us leaders, they talk about the endo pacific, which is of course, a know term was made up to enable us to explain us leaders explain, bringing more countries into the anti china alliance, the surrounding china. on the surface we see that the u. s. and the new k is empowering australia to have the nuclear submarine. i think the under one key reason for this empowerment is the us in the ability to provide more defense budget, to support this large spending of nuclear power summaries. so it says it is forcing australia to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions. and also. ready forces in the south china sea and also in the pacific region, especially now that th