A Dagger Pointed at the Heart of Antarctica
The Jacob Shapiro Podcast
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The Importance of Indonesia in the South Pacific
The resources in the South Pacific are also very interesting because Papua New Guinea has a lot of you know untapped resources new caledonia major nickel deposits if you start going down cold copper manganese. Australia and New Zealand fought alongside the British in the 60s against sort of Indonesia's quest for a greater Indonesia at the time so maybe you know you turn back the page to history and start to rally up the people in that way but yeah geopolitically Indonesia is fundamentally important I think in Indonesia interestingly it's from policy different to New Zealand but it maintains a bit of an independent approach to China but like New Zealand does.
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