George Friedman
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3,185 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 13 Aug
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When you put these countries together
And you use the geography of these countries, the axes on which they can act.
This creates a fundamental problem for China.
And that's what I was meant to do.
Well, Indonesia has been developing very well.
It is a major natural resource producer, oil and oil.
mu many other things, rare earths as well, and so on and so forth.
But it's a ch geographical position.
The islands of Indonesia
Block Chinese access or anyone else's potentially.
From the Indian Ocean to the Pacific, from the Pacific Indian Ocean.
Indonesia being involved in this.
really creates this problem for China because it does not have a port on the Indian Ocean, really, okay?
And therefore it's access to the Indian Ocean, and to some extent its access to Europe and other markets.
could be potentially limited.
If Indonesia were to block it.
Not that this is going to happen, not that I think the Indonesians want it to happen or any of the other Asian countries that have done this.
But it certainly creates a structure.
In which the risks to China if they take ex
Broader action.
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