Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you, Madam Minister.
Minister, you said something that concerned me in a response to Mr. Seeback. When we were talking about the Indo-Pacific economic framework for prosperity, you said that we would be ready when the “right conditions are present”.
Minister, President Biden launched this in May of this year. He invited Australia, Brunei, Dar es Salaam, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore—