Discussion of increased Japanese-Australian-USA defence ties was also discussed when the Howard Government played host to the 2007 APEC meeting , culminating in a Leaders Week in Sydney . Leaders , including US President Bush , Chinese President Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed trade , climate change , energy security , counter-terrorism and anti-corruption policy for the Asia Pacific . In important trade agreements , Woodside Energy and PetroChina Company Limited signed a $ 45 billion agreement to supply China with LNG gas , and Russia and Australia signed a nuclear co-operation pact to import more than $ 1 billion a year in Australian uranium . In climate change policy , the Sydney Declaration saw developing countries ( notably China ) officially agree on the need to set goals for cutting greenhouse gas emissions
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