Remarks by President Biden and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia Before Bilateral Meeting

Well, Mr. Prime Minister, welcome to San Diego.

And through both war and peace, we've been together in every -- every endeavor we've had -- joint security efforts, and it's been across the board. And that's exactly what we're doing now. I think this is a really consequential agreement we just made, and I think it's going to make a big difference in terms of our -- and represents our vision and our values of what needs to be done.

And I think that, you know, we're investing in the manufacturing base in both our countries as well, in addition to the impact on our military capacity. And I think that it's going to be a gamechanger, in my view.

And I think that that, coupled with the Quad, which we're both a part of -- including Japan and India -- that we -- we have a -- an ability to expand the maritime domain of democracies and peace, stability, and some security. I think that's important.

And together, we're working on climate change and regional stability, including economic coercion that's taking place in your part of the world -- not by you, but by others.

And we're going to step up to -- for the people of Ukraine. We've stuck together on that.

I just had a very good meeting with our colleague from Great Britain on that issue.

And today, we're going to discuss the deepening U.S.-Australia commitment to one another.

And I really do think we have an opportunity to -- I don't view what we're doing as -- as a challenge to anybody. I view it as a -- as a means by which we're bringing stability into the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean. And I think it's -- it's going to be greeted -- when they realize our purpose -- by everyone as maintaining stability and security. And -- and we can continue the basic rules of the road.

Thank you. And I look forward to -- remember, you invited me down to Australia. I'm coming.

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