Glen Turner on Nostr: npub1dswq3…7lq7h npub1jdj40…ccmz8 This working together is happening anyway, ...
npub1dswq3fpelw7mj0yxdkgzry36c77gncgh570pf6h508pcprh2970q87lq7h (npub1dsw…lq7h) npub1jdj40cnkr6ham9afv8k02we63tsuu7ta38l3j4rkhlhcxa428n4snccmz8 (npub1jdj…cmz8) This working together is happening anyway, because Australia and California share a geography, but in opposite seasons. So we've long swapped fire fighting resources.
One of the partners is often ahead of the other, so there is a lot of swapping of experience. For example, there was a study tour of South Australia's high uptake of household solar, and how the grid is managing becoming carbon free. That's an experience relevant to California, but not say Minneapolis, with its huge energy consumption in the depths of winter.
Australia and California have also failed at the same things. Such as a fast train between the coastal population centres.
Having a framework simply makes this cooperation more slick. No one need ask permission, since the MoU says it's fine.
Sure, the feds could can the MoU. But that wouldn't alter the desire of the two regions to further exploit their parallel geographies and parallel desires. All it would do is add to the recent history of the US's inconsistent engagement with Asia. An issue the US President is trying to address at Camp David this week (although honestly, the best thing he can do there is simply host and entertain his guests. Relationships are what matters in Asia, formal negotiations are for staff to complete. It's no coincidence that Gov Newsom and Ambassador Former-PM Rudd get along.)
One of the partners is often ahead of the other, so there is a lot of swapping of experience. For example, there was a study tour of South Australia's high uptake of household solar, and how the grid is managing becoming carbon free. That's an experience relevant to California, but not say Minneapolis, with its huge energy consumption in the depths of winter.
Australia and California have also failed at the same things. Such as a fast train between the coastal population centres.
Having a framework simply makes this cooperation more slick. No one need ask permission, since the MoU says it's fine.
Sure, the feds could can the MoU. But that wouldn't alter the desire of the two regions to further exploit their parallel geographies and parallel desires. All it would do is add to the recent history of the US's inconsistent engagement with Asia. An issue the US President is trying to address at Camp David this week (although honestly, the best thing he can do there is simply host and entertain his guests. Relationships are what matters in Asia, formal negotiations are for staff to complete. It's no coincidence that Gov Newsom and Ambassador Former-PM Rudd get along.)