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PRIME MINISTER RUDD: For Australia and the United States, strategic stability in the Asia Pacific is of crucial importance, both now and for the future. We are both committed to market economies in an open global economic order.
Our alliance is steeped in history. But it is also part of our framework for meeting the challenges of the future. The purpose of my remarks today is to reflect on the continued importance of U.S. global leadership, to reflect on the new Australian government's foreign policy framework, and to make some observations on how we both might engage China in the future, and how we might shape together China's engagement with the global and regional architecture of the future.
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