13: Geopolitics and Power Shifts: Rare Earths, AUKUS, and CCP Purges Gregory Copley with John Batchelor Copley discusses Australian PM Albanese's US visit, which secured a rare earths agreement leveraging Australia's vast reserves and advanced mining technolo

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Geopolitics and Power Shifts: Rare Earths, AUKUS, and CCP Purges Gregory Copley with John Batchelor Copley discusses Australian PM Albanese's US visit, which secured a rare earths agreement leveraging Australia's vast reserves and advanced mining technology. This deal disrupts China's historic control over critical minerals leverage. Copley also analyzes the political purging of general officers during the CCP's Fourth Plenum. This suggests a major power shift, potentially leading to the removal of Xi Jinping, as the military appears to be controlling the party.
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0:00.0	This is CBS I on the World. I'm John Vacher with my colleague and mentor Gregory Copley of Defense and Foreign Affairs,
0:10.7	whose new book is Noble State about the success of constitutional monarchy. One in particular, the United Kingdom,
0:17.9	mother country, has a very strong king right now, King Charles, who is
0:22.6	contained by his mortality. We're told by the palace that he has an incurable cancer. We don't
0:30.6	know what that means. My experience with cancer is that all cancers are curable and incurable.
0:37.3	You count on miracles, you count on the medical
0:39.2	profession, you count on your own temperament. You live as long as you live. However, the king
0:45.5	is also burdened with the leadership of his country and his family. And I just mentioned Gregory
0:52.5	because it's come up again, the king has a brother who is a perfect
0:57.3	prodigal son. And the puzzle is why the prodigal son doesn't take an opportunity to apologize and make
1:05.5	amends for his misconduct over these many years. Now, it's a lot to ask. It only happens once in the Bible. I leave it
1:11.9	alone. But the king is certainly burdened by Andrew, and there doesn't look to be a resolution in sight.
1:18.4	What I needed is an interpretation in the Commonwealth, in the English-speaking countries, the ones that
1:24.3	are influenced by Anglophilia. Do they use Andrew to badger the king,
1:31.8	to undermine his authority, to in some way weaken him? Is that why they keep on the Andrews
1:38.7	story? Because we all know the Andrews story. It's not going to get better. And it has nothing
1:42.9	do with Charles. Well, it's, uh It's not going to get better. And it has nothing to do with Charles.
1:53.3	Well, it's, the media likes a scandal. And the more, if you like, isolated and protected the individuals are, the more it becomes gossip and fodder for the newspapers.
2:04.0	Now, with Prince Andrew and his wife, Fergie, they've both been stripped of their titles of Duke and Duchess of York.
2:15.4	Can't strip Prince Andrew of his title of Prince because he's
2:18.2	born of the blood. But you have to look at history. Every monarch has, in the days when
2:26.7	monarchs exerted complete control or even later, the heir to the throne is brought up with a
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