How the US Sold Australia a China War 

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Cyrus, you know more about Australia than I do, and I am an 80 year old Australian. We don't run our country, the US and UK run Australia. Democracy is just a word. We vote for pre selected politicians, that say one thing and do another. Australia has law and order, they make the laws and we obey the orders.

I don't understand why Australia think that Chinese want to invade them I mean it doesn't make any sense

Its crazy because nobody in China is talking about Australia... nothing from media, citizens, or politician... while Australia talking about WAR with China, especially amongs politician and in media. What did I miss? 😂

The US instigated Australia to confront China, China reacted by reducing its purchases of Australian products, then the US greatly increased its exports of similar products to China....

Last time an Australian PM (Gough Whitlam) attempted to get rid of American naval bases, the US had the governor-general remove him from power. The sad thing is that no political party in Australia could've prevented the deal. The final shots are controlled by a higher power foreign entity. We are not sovereign in Australia despite the veneer.

Here in Australia, we have no brains and we always follow the usa into dumb wars

You are so right. The AUKUS deal is sad and pathetic . The media scare is pathetic. At least the Premier's of Western Australia and Victoria have been over to China to try to undo some of the damage . I'm ashamed of the spinelessness of Albo and Penny Wong in not standing up to the US pressure. I vote Greens federally from now on and McGowan for state.

Thank you, Cyrus, for putting this up. I am an Australian and it baffles me why the Australian government actively works against the interests of its own people. Paul Keating 're-named' this deal U-SUKA, and he's absolutely spot on.

The problem is Australia - the government of a supposingly sovereign country would risk the Lives and Livelihoods of Australian to please US.

The kangaroo has become a sheep 🦘🐑

Dear Cyrus, I wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for the presentation you gave to help ease the unnecessary fears that many Australians have about China. Your thoughtful and well-researched approach to dispelling myths and presenting facts has been truly enlightening, and has helped to promote a more accurate understanding of China among the Australian people. Thank you for all that you do, and for being a shining example of what it means to be a true leader and advocate for peace.

I voted labor last time hoping to get my government to stop being a USA neocon lackey for like 2 seconds. Labor won and then got right back to doing what LNP was doing. What is the point of democracy if there is no party we can vote for to get the government to do what we the people want?

Having seen this video, as an Australian I am so disappointed with the futile decision of our current leaders to enrich US and UK ship-building companies at the extreme expense of our taxpayers, especially even after our respected former PMs, Paul Keating and Malcolm Turnbull, themselves have criticized this disastrous AUKUS deal profoundly and justifiedly.

I'm Polish lad living in Australia and I'm absolutely staggered hearing my coworkers talking about threat of Chinese invasion. I couldn't understand untill I turned on their news channels. Good lord it's pretty bad.

Only several countries in this world have true sovereignty, unfortunately Australia is not among that group.

We have a government that won't even ask for the release of Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. We currently have the largest debt in our history and then we indebt ourselves a further $360 billion to appease our masters. The problem is we, like many other Western nations have cowardly, self interested 'leadership' that will readily surrender sovereignty for political and financial gain.

Henry Kissinger once say, "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal".

It's an American strategy known as "offshore balancing" you use local regional countries as the first line of defense against a great power but you only get involved with your military at the last moment once that power is weakened enough and other countries can't finish defeating it.

Now it makes perfect sense why France had its submarine supply contract cancelled by the Australians and why Macron flipped on the question of Taiwan subsequently.

"We are protecting our trade route of China... from China!" "..."

"To be an enemy of America can be dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal.” - Henry Kissinger

It’s absurd that any Australians really believe China 🇨🇳 has any interest in invading them. Doesn’t say a lot for the intelligence of those people

There is absolutely no reason for China to harm Australia. Australia has vast land and rich in resources. Best place for China to invest and trade with. But i think the arrogance of the population thinking they are not being brainwashed is the problem.

Thank you Cyrus for your continuous, tireless effort to spread truth and awareness!!!

I live with this every day. Most days, you get the stare. Some days, you get a stranger confronting you, for no reason, other than you look Chinese. A few days ago, I was stuck in traffic - out of nowhere, a lady on motorbike pulled up and confronted me. She started cursing, as if I was there - stuck in traffic like everyone else, to cause her misery. It is sad what is happening. And its going get worse. The mainstream media is fueling this fire.

Kangaroo dumbfoundedly walks into a war with China for nothing

Thank you Cyrus for speaking out the truth 😊

I am one of those Australian taxpayers who thinks the Aukus sub deal is by far the worst waste of taxpayers money in the history of modern Australia....and that is no easy achievement!

We are spending billions on weapons with money we don't have on weapon's we don't need to appease the US military industrial complex.

We are blessed to have Cyrus Janssen among us. Even if he were alone, he successfully points out the absurdity of American Neocon strategy ideas.

Physically continental Australia is closer to China and Asia than to UK/USA and Australians should not try to pick quarrels with China in support of the US hegemony. Having nuclear power submarines based in Australia allowed China to now legally targets all the major Australian cities and American military installations located there with nuclear bombs, as Australia is deemed to have breached the "nuclear non proliferation treaty" it had signed and had now lose the treaty's protection.

The world is going crazy, thank you Cyrus for spreading the truth

It is because Australia has a well-known opinion manufacturer and manipulator -- Keith Rupert Murdoch

Aussie are really crazy, I just saw a Bloomberg interview yesterday in Sydney that Australia needs to arm up to defend their trade route! From whom? China? Their biggest trade partner? I can't believe that they keep saying this!

What's eating Australians' heart? Not China, but USA.

In Australia we have a housing shortage, medical funding shortages, education shortfalls. Our piliticians: "lets buy useless submarines"

Australia ever living under the shadows of the declining HEGEMON, while China has exalted itself as a world leader with international clout. If the hegemon goes down, it will bring Australia down together.

Aust has outsourced its sovereignty to US. I'm an Aussie and I do not support the current and the previous govt foreign policy

Australians are pretty naive to be influenced by these outrageous media reports

There are hardly any continent where US did not expend their War business, the latest addition would be Australia. Its very unfortunate that we did not learn from the history and how we make our planet a dangerous place

And those nuclear subs are useless for Australia's protection...

Albanese is not the brightest kid on the block.

Australian ruling class is not short of knowledge on China, but short of decency to repent and rectify its evil fascist colonial ways of bullying humanity. We Chinese Australians who dare to speak up for China face life threatening persecution from the Australian authority. Are we afraid? We are not afraid of how our lives end, we are interested more in making this world a fair and sustaining place for all to prosper. As for the evil doers who persecute us, it is an honour to risk our lives to expose their evil hearts for bad karma to catch up with them.

Australia's media is US owned. The Australian Citizens Party disclosed there is a group of HAWKS in parliament who call themselves WOLVERINES. Said they go around parliament placing CLAW MARK stickers on walls etc the US Ambassador is an invited member of the group.

I like the highlighted lines “We (Aussie) want to spend 400B to protect deterrence from China on trading route with China which is our biggest trading partner”. Any rational Aussie can see the absurdity of AUKUS nuclear submarine deal which is US trying to drive a wedge between your biggest customer and also all your neighboring states. I urge Aussie to call your legislator to re-direct 400B funding to improve health care, education …etc anything that you can enjoy benefit yourself and your families.

Australia is in Murdock dynasty, what else do you expect?

Australians are not afraid of China or the Chinese people. What they are is embarrassed of the actions of our government and leaders.

That’s like a Joke, “China is threatening China”

Cyrus is a voice of reason amongst voices of war mongering, Paul Keating is the greatest.

Australia can apparently afford $368 billion for submarines, $19 billion for missiles, but we can't afford to increase the unemployment benefit from $50 per day. Who can survive on $50 a day? But it's more important to support the US military industrial complex than support our fellow Australians, isn't it Mr Albanese.

Let's us not forget that while the US is condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. The US is still colonizing and invading Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷 Even after the United Nations have issued over 40 resolutions telling the United States to grant independence to Puerto Rico immediately and they have ignored all of them.

I lived in Australia and would like to share my experiences. Australians have this attitude of insulting their non-white customers and the same time expect that same customer to do business with them, expecting the same customer to take the insults and abuses from them. I seen it in throughout my time in Australia. Not just China. In the 90s when SE Asian economy were booming, Australian were afraid and device plans to stop it from happening. Not making this up. I was a witness to such plans. When the crush did happen. They were involved in creating protests in Malaysia, Indonesia, etc in the 90s. I witness Aussies organizing such protests. They were speaking with Aussie accent.

it's cheaper to buy up australia than invading it...

I’m Australian and have been actively convincing everyone the war in Ukraine is America’s fault, not Russia. Russia and primarily China, is our friend. It’s all a joke. I love China. The photo of the UK, US & AUS looks like Gallipoli rd 2. I could spend all day typing about this, the Solomon Islands for example - it’s fine. We are in Asia, Australia should realise that and actually be friends with our biggest trade partner.

Politicians make a lot of money awarding contracts to military contractors, so it's important to create an enemy so that their business can thrive

The most precious products USA produced now are ... weapons. They need to create situations to boost sales. 😅😅😅

Who dont know which country in this world love war most after world war 2 ?

The writer of that sketch is genius lmao. I hope it was seen by most Aussies.

Be warned! Remember to put on your life-vests when you sail over with the 7th Fleet to confront China in the South China Sea....trust me, you sure as hell will need 'em! Good luck!

Nowadays Politicians hasn’t had wisdom like before. Democracy only pick the popular not the capable ones 😂

Australia, like everyone else, was furious after the last US Intel leak.

I am from Australia, In recent times I have been worried regarding a conflict with China or the Australian involvement if Taiwan were to be invaded. Australia has said they don't support a conflict over Taiwan and Australia's response is to keep peace via dialogue. I don't see China as threat regarding only Australia and China relations. However siding with the US and their influence on our country/ "preparing for war" is what has got me concerned. How can it be that we are increasing trade and strengthen ties there, but can expect a military conflict or should be preparing for one? I think the Australian government knows going on, but has no choice. The AUKAS deal did happened and I hope they learnt a lession. In the recent Strategic Defense Review from the government they did state they will be increasing military power for Australia. I want to have good faith we are looking to strengthen our military in attempt to have independent power regarding our military. Assuming so we don't have to rely on the US for protection and therefore their influence. Also looking to strengthen ties with neighboring allies. Even if we were to increase our military and defense, at the moment its weak so we need those partners. I *hope* that this is a change for the LONG TERM of Australian interests and slowing departing from the from the US's interests which don't align with ours. But all these wars articles from Australian media make it seems like a conflict would only Australia vs China. What about the allies and others in the region? other countries near by have far worst relations with China than Australia does. Australia is the furthest in the indo-pacific, and China is our biggest partner. there are a lot of Chinese residents here and big investments from China within our country. The Chinese people living here are great. I just wanted to voice my thoughts. I can only remain hopeful as a war with China would be detrimental to our country. It just makes no sense. If you're from the US don't be offended, I'm only referring to the government. The people are good I think its great to have a strong alliance with the US in most cases, but we don't want any involvement in any unnecessary war.

Thanks for a very good video. I've been warning Australians about trusting America for a very long time, and at the very same time my Chinese business friends have been totally bewildered about Australia's attitude towards the Chinese . I've been threatened, abused, and told to get out of my own country for just stating the honest facts. At the end of the day, if anyone wants to see the trouble spots around the world just look for who's hands are right in the middle of it. America, and as america is crumbling, as is England then weak spineless countries like Australia will end up being target number one. And as an Australian seeing daily the average Australian's attitudes, it's hard to find a lot of pity in my heart for what's on the cards and soon to happen.

America has always had a tight grip on Australia. A peaceful and powerful Asia has never been on America’s best interest, and that’s exactly why they are spreading nukes around Asia in South Korea and Australia.

There is absolutely no stratigic or political reason for China to invade or attack Australia except to blunt US assets located here. The worst part of the sub and long rage missile deals is that they are both strike first weapons. I'm sure the US will put us to good use :'( definately not in Australia's national interest, domesict interest or public interest.

Cyrus you are genuine and honest. I hope my fellow Australian who hears your opinion and agree with your comments. I thank your comments on Australia that people should choose to live in peace within our communities regardless of who we are whether we are colour, black or white. Have a great day all

In the meantime president Marcon is scaling back on the US policy, well done to president Marcon for speaking up 👏👏👏👏👏

Greetings from Thailand. True, very true. Thank you Cyrus.

Warmongering is bad. In the end, the Australians are psychologically harming themselves. 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆

Cyrus, thank you for your works! Please keep up the great job.

What you're not portraying is the Australian public's opposition to AUKUS. Trade is resuming with China, who by the way, inflicted sanctions and shot themselves in the foot doing so. Also this govt has resumed talks with China after constant requests by us, after the damage was done by our previous govt and the Murdoch media, of which Peter Hartcher is employed.

As indonesian, i hope aussie brothers have their own soverign not dictate by any other country like usa but you know, history tells Australia is west so it would follow usa command

The Aussies has no say in their foreign policies.

I love how the audience laughed when Mearsheimer talked about the US being nasty! I bet they really did think he was joking - most sane people would! 🤣

Kangaroo to Aussie govt - " Hey mate, why are we talking abt going to war with China, our biggest trade partner??" Aussie govt - " Errrr you see, mate....my hands are kinda tied ya know coz the US said if we are not with them, then we are against them, see ?"

Love that sketch, it's so spot on!

Cyrus. You must have left out the part where this deal will enrich a lot of interested parties for the rest of their lives and their immediate families. The rest of the Australians can live on fresh air for all they care.😂😂😂

Thank you for the work you are doing to educate people on China.

Great video Cyrus! That sketch is hilarious and tragic at the same time!!

Unfortunately there is only one senior figure in Australia speaking out against the absurd Aukus deal. Many people like me are highly sceptical, though, that anything much will come of the deal. One of the points made in the agreement is that Australia must dispose of the nuclear waste on its own territory and you have no idea how big a kerfuffle that will cause because Australian's irrational fear of China is more than matched by their irrational fear of nuclear anything.

If China and America are two grown men fighting each other, having Australia help America is like having a bunny rabbit join the fray. And not one of those tough bunny rabbits from Monty python

It's great that Australia and China has developed a good working relationship. Keep this up to bring about mutual benefits. It's a win win situation for both.

Very disappointing moves in Australia. Spending so much money on secondhand outdated US submarines that will never be used for any real purpose and only to arrive in 2040. China is not going to wait decades just so you can have your scrap metal by then to fight them. The money could be used for actual purposes like a train line from Melbourne to the airport proposed for decades and now cancelled due to no money!

Here in Indonesia, a rapidly rising nation of 300-million ppl and the world's 6th largest economy with an economy surging by 14.5% last year, the Indonesians overwhelmingly consider Australia an "enemy" now that "must be crushed" and "kicked out of our hemisphere back to where they crawled here from".

Lets be clear, there's not a chance the Aussie will muster a battalion.

Love the statement, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

I went back to Australia recently for a visit and it felt like being in a parallel universe where there’s so much talk about going to war with China everywhere you look and it feels almost imminent whereas outside of Australia there’s no talk at all from China about it. It reminded me of the country going to war in Iraq after 9/11. I watched it unfold on TV in disbelief, they were going after Al Qaeda and all of a sudden decided to invade Iraq with some bogus reason, I saw the doubt in the newscaster’s eyes as it was read out, but the next day, the entire Australian media rallied behind the war and all of a sudden it was legitimised. Watching that unfold was scary and at the time I was too young to understand what had really happened. Wishing for world peace amongst all people 🌎 🕊️

The Kangaroo 🦘🦘 hopping in the wrong direction

Because we have diffrent culture and skin color and China is not a vassal state of U.S and the west, its that simple really.

Excellent work as usual, Cyrus 👍

Where is that Aussie Comedy Scene where they discuss war with China? I love it. It exactly depicts Aussies trying to figure out what the threat is from China we've supposed to be scared about because we've had a healthy trading relationship with China since 1978.

This looks like the US is blackmailing Australia into buying a 400 billion weapon the Aussies don't need. The same tactics used towards NATO countries who are forced to buy US weapons as well. This has to stop we all humans need peace fair trade and good relations between the peoples of this world. ❤❤❤

Goebbels would be proud of Australian media.

USA take Australia into the war in Korea. Vietnam, Afganistán, and now the are punching us against China , Australia never learn the lesson.

Australia,Uk,USA,New Zealand,Ireland these countries are the same i have never separate them in my mind. their population are the same. i think their ancestors came from one country.

America is number one treat for Astralia.

Obviously the Aukus pact brings benefits to both USA and UK but saying that China doesn't pose threats to Australian national security seems a bit unrealistic from my point of view. I mean, it's not either black or white. We have to look at the global picture and stay away from propaganda coming from both side. In April 2022 China signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands and this has been a catalyst of regional concerns about a future Chinese military presence there. There are other concern apart from a strictly military point of view, as influence operation carried out by China in Australia.

Any Aussie politician with a spine that challenged the US overlords, got ousted, quickly. We need to keep sticking the finger the the US administrators and think for ourselves.

Given the reluctance of ordinary Australians to speak out, your contribution is most welcome. Thank you! Surface warships are now obsolete. As they say in the US navy - there are two types of boat, submarines and targets. Now Russia has announced a nuclear powered torpedo that can get where it is going much faster than inside a submarine. It can loiter or patrol for years. Australia needs an absolutely drastic rethink of its naval expenditures.