Australia's China Problem 

The down votes are actually up votes from Australia

Omg Wendover has lost it. I can't believe this... A whole video with no aviation whatsoever...

As a resident of Alice Springs, I love seeing my town mentioned for something non crime related

Funny story...I worked in the Australian higher education sector when the pandemic started. Not so many international students after that, resulting in a huge funding issue for our universities. The fact of the matter is that, for a lot of international students, Australia's lifestyle and social stabiltiy was part of the attraction. That's not such a big deal with remote-based education.

Australia is more comparable to Canada - another vast, affluent, mineral-rich, English-speaking countries and has the same Head of State.

"China mocked Australian president" I think the general population does that aswell

Update as of the 3rd week of July: Australia has openly taken sides in the South China Sea maritime dispute, and has sided against China.

They're also the largest producer of eggs because HowToBasic lives there.

I died a little when he said "irregardless" at 11:05.

That title looks and sounds like an ai generated wendover productions video title

Thank you for talking about this, it’s no secret here in Australia that we are slowly becoming a puppet state of China. In fact when a book was being published about this issue, despite having gained media attention before release 4 publishers refused to publish it out of fear of China. 1 of them has never sold a book in China.

"Australia would not exist without Amercia" is the most American thing I've ever heard

"What the country definitely is not, though, is a superpower." _Shows stock footage of kangaroos hopping_

"Chinese media mocks australian prime minister." Hah! So do Australians.

That enormous period of continuous growth can largely be attributed to the former Prime Minister Paul Keating. A political juggernaut.

Why didn’t England just send their convicts to Canada?

It feels like it's too late for Australia. When it comes to our political issues everybody is just too self-centered and disinterested to care, years of easy living have made many of us soft and complacent, a recipe for collapse.

I always thought Australia had more in common with Canada than the US.

*Australia* : _we have minerals_ *China* : _I need your clothes, boots and motorcycle_

Australia clearly has much more in common with Canada than America.

Is it safe to have "China" in the title? I thought it would be an automatic demonitisation.

Moral of the video: don't put all your eggs in one Chinese basket

11:04 "irregardless" **eye twitches**

America, Australia and Japan must cooperate to solve the China problem!

July, 2020: This Video aged very well.

the "emptiness" (2 lane road) of Australia is relative to our population. Our roads may sound somewhat pathetic but it's not like we have traffic jams and a real need to change it. More than that, we spend entirely too much on road infustructure. It's a great investment for sure but - again - relative to our population they are just not efficient decisions.

So we can conclude that there are at least 4 people in Austrailia.

“Too much reliance on any economy, no matter how strong economy may be, is a risky strategy.” *Laughs in Canadian*

Wendover: Video about Australia Lets release it an 4:30am. Australia: Thanks Wendover.

As it right now, Australia is having some arguements with China. I guess Wendover Prouctions do live in the future.

Wendover: *does not include any airplanes in a video*. *"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined"*

did I just witness an american pronouncing Brisbane right? You sir, have my respect.

First: Boeing’s China Problem Now: Australia’s China Problem Next: The Universe’s China Problem

Hell yeah you mentioned Perth and even called us a city! so many docos used to refer to us as a "small country town"

I've lived here 37 years and from this economic growth, nothing has improved that wouldn't have improved without foreign help. We like slow development and low population and our corrupt Government is wrecking our country

Australia: exists* China: its free real estate

The 2020's are gonna be a hell of a decade.

Excuse me, Dubai and other deserted Middle Eastern cities were developed to that level not just bcz of oil boom. They have exploited labour from India and Philippines , treated them like slaves and build on human suffering. Australia could have done the same but they have strong human right laws and will not employ someone for $5 a day and no place to sleep because they have a minimum wage policy like in every developed country . Middle East pay well only to the locals, and often scam foreign workers and abuse them because their shitty laws always side with locals. Please don’t skip important facts when you make such videos

surprising he nailed the pronunciation of brisbane and melbourne

Wendover: Australia’s China Problem Video comments: Wendover’s “Sidney” spelling problem

Australia: *Has exports* China: _"Give me that"_

I thought Australia was a conspiracy created by the Emu Protection League.

Australia should stop issuing PRs to PRC citizens. I don't understand why so many PRs are granted to Chinese citizens. Shouldn't there be a quota to prevent certain groups of people from flooding the country?

In the 80's as students we actually spoke to this guy from The Rand Corporation in History Class. Don't know what the connection was. It was kinda unreal. He said, according to the programs they ran, China would try to gain hegemony over Canada and Australia. We just stared at him like he was an idiot. BUT NAO... o.O

The card the US got that we didn’t is the Mississippi River.

Polymatter’s about to get jealous now that youre talking about China

No airplanes? Not even a single one? Come on, Wendover.

In all honesty the USA and China both have similar shipping times to get here, that being a couple of weeks. However shipping costs $100+ per item from America and essentially nothing from China. A free trade agreement would easily eliminate our dependence on Chinese manufacturing, although America is facing a similar problem itself. The five eyes need to be closer trading partners!

25% of comments: Australia joke 75% of comments: 11:05 “irrigardless”

>sees title >sees uploader Hey, wait a minute, you're not PolyMatter...

Isn't china everyone's problem right now?

This kind of avoids the whole problem of Australia also relying too heavily on America. In both situations, Australia has capitulated to these two nations in different ways. Australia is America's lapdog politically and militarily, but China's economically. And despite all that economic growth, we've had record numbers of homelessness and people struggling financially. Just increasing GDP doesn't mean an increase in prosperity for the majority of the population.

I feel like Australia has more in common with Canada then the US

""If China's GDP contracted just 5%, Australia"s would fall by 2.5%" *Coronavirus:* "Allow us to introduce ourselves"

"One of the fastest growing industries out there is of course-" *C H I N A*

Australia doesn't have a China problem. China is neither the US, UK nor Japan. What will benefit Australia greatly is to accept where it is located and work to co-exist and cooperate in its self interest in the region. It can either be an "island" tied to its past or a "Continent" on its own trajectory unfettered by the geo-politics of the US and the UK. Unlike Canada led by a junior that is physically tied to the US it is thankfully locate far away.

Why wouldn’t they compare Canada and Australia...

0:51 That's an interesting way to deal with misspelling Sydney as "Sidney"

He blurred out “Sidney.”

I am from Brisbane. Australia actually can support more people than it has today. Though water is scarce in the interior, it has a lot of arable land in the Murray-Darling Basin in the southeast of the country. For example, Australia is consistently the no. 6 to no. 10 wheat producer in the world depending on whether there is drought, flooding rains, or good conditions. Australia is also a massive producer of wool, meats, dairy products, fruit, wine, cotton, and sugar. This allows Australia to be easily self-sufficient in terms of food given its small population. In terms of natural resources, Australia only needs to import petroleum and exports pretty much everything else. The small population and high labour costs means manufacturing is not a significant portion of the economy. Though natural resources comprise the majority of Australia's exports, the service industries make up most of the economy and employ the majority of Australians, which is typical of a developed country. The actual reason why Australia has such a small population is because of its geographic isolation from the rest of the world and to a lesser extent past immigration restrictions such as the White Australia Policy. The geographic isolation meant that Australia only came to the civilization game when the British arrived in the late 18th century, meaning Australia had less than 250 years to grow its population and expand its land area. As part of the British Empire, Australia became an export economy where agricultural and mineral goods were exported to Britain in exchange for manufactured goods. This economic outlook continues today due to Australia's small population, just with trade partners changed. The outback of course, cannot support many people, but even less people would be there if it weren't for mining. The outback is a region comprising of most of Australia's iron, gold, and silver reserves with towns such as Mount Isa, QLD, Broken Hill, NSW, and Kalgoorlie, Newman, and Tom Price all in Western Australia reliant on mining. The reason why China is Australia's biggest trading partner is due to how large its market, and industrial base is. Japan and South Korea are reliable trade partners that are close allies with Australia, but they are nowhere near as large as China. The only way for Australia to diversify its trading partners is if other countries in Asia such as India and Indonesia gain large industrial bases, which is starting to occur. Australia will require its sea lanes to be secure and currently, the United States controls the world's oceans and Australia also shares a cultural affinity with the United States, making an alliance with the United States more practical than with China. However, maintaining a single focus with trade is not sustainable, especially with an authoritarian and expansionist country. 21st century China is like Germany, Russia or Japan in the first half of the 20th century, a large, industrialized, authoritarian state that stands to threaten the world order. Therefore, as you said in the video, diversification is key.

Wendover: Australia exists because of the US Australia: OH NO HE DI’ NT

Lmao they misspelled Sydney as "Sidney" then blurred it out

That "irregardless" at the end hurts my soul. :( This channel has some of the best writing on all of RU-vid.

Love australia spent a year there and loved it but it's too expensive everything costs a fortune, if I'm being completely honest it's a little bit boring but I would go back

Dec 2020: this channel predicted the future

Australia is clearly more like Canada. And to say they got the same hand as America when much of our land in uninhabitable desert (when much of the American heartland is rich for farming and manufacturing) is laughable lol

5:28 Voice : 3% Screen : 33% Subtitle : 30%

Australian exonomy is more similar to Canada rather than US. Simlar to Aus, the biggest contributors to the Canadian economy is also it's natural resources, education, tourism, proximity to the US etc. Australia is also comparable to Canada in terms of population and habitable land. So that would have been a more fair comparison.

According to flat earthers , Australians are paid actor of NASA 😪.

did the RU-vid algorithm really think the keynote "Sydney" was a license plate? That's gotta be what it is and that's really funny and sad.

Country near China exist China: I'm gonna need that

Me: man these videos are great Narrator: "Irregardless..." Me: You go straight to hell!

Today I learned that I knew nothing about Australia whatsoever.

It's Impressive how well this aged

anyone else notice he spelled sydney wrong 0:51 😂

NZ has the same problem. NZ'ers cant afford housing here now and its due to Govt's not cracking down on overseas investment rules. The opposition frequently puts up asian candidates in asian suburbs (of which there are many) to get conservative asian votes. We are pretty screwed and are becoming a nation of lifetime renters.

"Five major city centers have immerged" *Hobart* "What about me it isn't fair!"

We escaped recession because of Rudd's good financial management.

When playing Risk, always secure Australia whenever possible

Australia will find another country to get hooked on India: *knocks on door*

There's a strong sentiment in Australia to bolster trade relations with India and countries within Africa in a bid to reduce reliance on China. A lot of the issues with Australia and China can be easily fixed with policies like unoccupied real-estate tax or foreign land investment blockades. This would obviously tilt China and they would cut trade but if we're positioned to work with India and Africa then the retaliation from China is not as harsh.

The flip side is also that all that “economic benefit” has gone to like 6 people leaving the rest of us without sharing of that economic prosperity

Australia in November: Our economy is unstoppable! China in December: I'm about to end this country's career.

7:47 "heh let's just wait for that dip around 2008" .... w h a t

Australia's China problem is basically the same as central Americas American problem from the 1950s

"28 year's without a recession" we'll see if we can outlast the Coronavirus recession

American citizen: it's always made in China. Chinese citizen: it's always made in Australia.

Melbourne and Sydney are connected by a large highway.

“No developed country has gone this long without a recession” Scott Morrison: Hold my beer

If America is looking to have a non China trade deficit, trade heavily with Australia, if USA took chinas place there, relations politically are there, and then economically

Real life lore and this dude should collab, they sound very similar.

France already had there eye on Australia and were planning to colonise it, so we would still exist we would just have a different language and different millatry allies

Really impressed with how this video went so smoothly

In the similarities between the USA and Australia, you forget to mention both tried to eradicate their native populations, and near succeeded.

"dealt the same cards" ... well, australia is mostly unhabitable desert so i can't really see that.

The biggest surprise of this video is the usage of "irregardless" at the end...

Thank you for featuring Australia and its relationship with China, but this video did not even scratch the surface, and provided no analysis of the “China problem”..Australian politicians have tried to reach out to Chinese government officials for two years and have been ignored by those Chinese officials. What your video did show is the need for Australia to have a diverse economic interaction with other countries other than China

Australia's minerals and politics China: *Give me that*

Australia: 🔥🔥🔥 Australia: *everything burned* China: it’s free real estate

Hey Wendover! Generally like your videos but here’s a misconception. To think that Australia wouldn’t be if not for the independence of the United States is one of those fallacies. Britain at the time was on a hunt for claiming as much land for the Crown as possible. Claim first and then let’s decide what to do with it. If anything, the independence of the US had taught Britain what not to do with its colonies, but not that they wouldn’t make further territorial claims. It was the time of the big land grabs.