Steve Baxter

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2 Worlds Collide Podcast · #107 - Steve Baxter - Labor's Budget Will Destroy Australia's Future · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Oh, they knew everyone.

They knew everyone where they were and basically went and got them.

And that's a paper version of, I think, what can happen.

Now with AI, you think what a surveillance state could do with AI at the moment would be absolutely terrifying.

During the height of the East German regime with the Stasi, something like 20-something percent of GDP was dedicated to surveilling their own citizens.

Now with AI, you could probably do that with

obviously i don't want to go there let's just move to nanny's time yeah i don't want to move there at all that's terrible there's other it's just you know the other obviously that their social credit score was on the bits and pieces i i was at a forbes thing last year and um on a panel and the guy before me probably two before me was the guy who runs the anko business anko a billionaire guy manufactures crap in china brings it to australia he's a retail hero

And we were talking in the green room before going out, and he said, what do you do?

I said, I run a defence fund, and we back this, and we invest in capability around lethality and survivability, this sort of stuff.

And he goes, what's that for?

I said, we mentioned about the tyrants on the march and the issue with Taiwan.

And he said to me, he said, isn't...

don't you think the U.S.

is a bigger risk to the world than China type thing?

And then fortunately, he got dragged out.

So I didn't get a chance to finish the conversation.

He got dragged out on the stage.

But I wanted to ask him, that's great.

You do business in China.

If you had an issue with the Chinese government, would you stand up in the Chinese press and air your issues?

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