Malcolm Turnbull

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 195. Can the West Reclaim its Power from Trump? (Malcolm Turnbull) · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

That would be the sensible outcome.

But, you know, you guys know the animosities across the channel better than I do.

I've never been able to understand them, but they're very intense.

So there it is.

I'm sorry, I don't have... I'm not a fan of the deal, but I'm an Australian, you see, so I've just got my own country's interest to look after.

Well, I think the most important, it would be a toss up between China and the US for sure.

I mean, the US is, you know, our great strategic partner, but our biggest economic partner, trading partner is China.

You know, also there's, you know, with a population of 27 million, there's probably now well over one and a half billion Australians of Chinese heritage, including two of our four grandchildren.

So, you know, China is very important to Australia at many, many levels.

And we do not want to be put in a position of choosing between China and the United States.

You know, the UK is important, I suppose, in a historical family connection, but it doesn't feature a lot in our geopolitical thinking, AUKUS notwithstanding.

And the European Union's obviously important because it's big and, you know, we've got many, many connections there.

We look like we're getting a free trade deal done with the Europeans at long last, which a process I kicked off, I might say, many years ago, but which got dynamited by the AUKUS.

So you guys would remember the French were very aggrieved.

They were misled and lied to and, you know, withdrew their ambassadors and so forth.

So...

Well, Japan, yes.

Well, Japan is, again, Japan is important, seen as a strategic partner in a way that just would have been unthinkable to, say, my parents' generation.

Australians generally regard Japan with great affection.

There is now a lot of tourism between Australia and Japan.

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