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#82 Navigating Global Challenges: Bob Carr's perspectives on war and diplomacy

Straight Talk with Mark Bouris

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The Importance of Personality in a War

Under the architecture of this little diplomatic formula negotiated by Weizmann in 1972, we recognize that the Chinese claim Taiwan as a province of China. Minzi's approach was this war will not be ours, Mr President. He told Eisenhower, he told Kennedy, two US presidents, that Australia wasn't going to be part of a war over the Taiwan Strait. Alexander Daller inherited that position, made the mistake of rendering explicit and public in 2004. But it seems that now there's a notion around that we would automatically be committed if America slid or sleepwalked into a war over Taipei. I wonder, because it's going to come down to personalities at the end of the day

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