Governors of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam are urging a moratorium on deep-sea mining in the Mariana region and demanding reforms to the federal process due to environmental, cultural, and national security concerns.
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It's it's a whole bunch of potential challenges. As I've said in my speech on national security, you're moving from a world that's been a rules-based system to a power-based system. And so you've got a US that's very fixated from its foreign policy reset in November last year to America first in the Western Hemisphere. Yeah. You've got a China sitting in Indo-Pacific that wants to have more influence across the region. And you've got Europe where Russia wants to do its thing, and you've got a whole bunch of global South countries that have felt part of it. So in that context, what you've got to do is that, you know, if you just think about if we had a conflict, say, in um uh Taiwan uh or North Korea, you know, North Korea providing munitions to Russia to use in a war in Ukraine. Um, or think about the situation we're seeing in the Middle East. We you know it disrupts our whole prosperity in the region. So we've got to keep it.
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