00:00And in discussing trade with these counterparts in the region, did you open the aperture at all and also tell them that this is an opportunity for them to bring into the conversation or the negotiation other elements of the U.S. relationship, whether it be security elements, you know, broader than trade?
00:19Well, I think that we want to expand on all the other issues, but I think we need to bifurcate the two. Primarily the trade conversations have been about trade, and that's how the president's treated it. Now, that doesn't mean that they're, you know, the bulk of our meetings here, we're not about trade. I'm not the trade negotiator for the United States.
00:34We certainly appreciate the role that trade plays in our bilateral relationships with individual countries, but the bulk of our talks here have been about all the other things that we cooperate on, whether it's civil nuclear cooperation, whether it's, you know, respecting international law when it comes to air rights and maritime rights and freedom of navigation and things of this nature and other opportunities to work together.
00:58So that's been the bulk of our conversations, and it's been very positively received.
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