16: Colonel Newsham Discusses Promising US-Australia Rare Earth Deal and Canberra's Dual Strategy Toward China Grant Newsham with John Batchelor Colonel Grant Newsham discussed the promising US-Australia rare earth deal, noting Australia has vast mining capab
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
4.5 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Building a coffee business? |
| 0:01.9 | Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. |
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| 0:24.0 | I'm John Batchel with Colonel Grant Newship, the United States Marine Corps retired, |
| 0:28.4 | author of When China Attacks. This is the story of the whole of Oceania responding to the |
| 0:35.6 | aggression and the plain hostility of the People's Republic |
| 0:39.5 | of China over the last decade and more, especially under Xi Jinping. |
| 0:44.4 | There's a plenum going on in Beijing right now. |
| 0:47.1 | There are questions raised about the future, especially because Xi Jinping is older, and |
| 0:53.1 | the economy is in poor shape to be diplomatic. |
| 0:57.7 | And the army is loyal to the Chinese Communist Party, or is it? |
| 1:01.8 | That is the threat, turmoil in Beijing in the dictator's suite. |
| 1:08.4 | We turn, however, to a discussion about Canberra, the capital of Australia, and Washington, |
| 1:14.3 | under Mr. Trump, but really into the future as well. And there is a deal called Ocas, |
| 1:21.1 | that's Australia, United Kingdom, and the U.S., said to be part of a developing story, not just nuclear-powered submarines on loan |
| 1:32.2 | or sold to Australia, but also the ability of Australia to build its own nuclear power, |
| 1:39.3 | nuclear-powered, not nuclear-armed submarines, and also development of technology that would be critical to Australia |
| 1:47.8 | defending itself in the region. Or is it? Grant, they mentioned again August in the meeting |
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