Is it trying to harm Australia? A few days ago, a foreign expert published an article to give confused Australians guidance. We believe that its views are very pertinent, and the interests between China, the United States and Australia are analyzed very thoroughly, and if the Morrison administration can understand the reasoning, perhaps there may be a new turning point between China and Australia.
This American expert on international affairs named Bradley Kenship recently published an article entitled "Australia must understand who is secretly harming it."
The article is short, but very sharp, directly poking at key issues facing Australia's economic and diplomatic sectors. KenShip expressed two main points.
First, Campbell, the Indo-Pacific coordinator of the National Security Council, recently claimed that China is waging a high-profile economic war against Australia. KenShip believes that this kind of rhetoric is simply confusing right and wrong, blurring concepts, and deliberately creating contradictions between China and Australia, which to a certain extent aggravates the difficulty of Australia's exports to China.
He said: China has no territorial ambitions or political plots for Australia, but only wants to develop closer economic and trade relations. China's important raw materials for growing its industry, such as coal and iron ore, have previously relied on Australia for supplies. In fact, through China-Australia economic and trade exchanges, Australia has achieved extremely rich returns in the past three decades.
However, due to the Australian government's decision, the situation has changed, such as the politically motivated decision to ban Huawei from participating in the construction of Australia's 5G network, and supporting the so-called coronavirus "laboratory leak" conspiracy theory, which has greatly stimulated and hurt the relationship between the two sides.
The consequentation has also put the export of mid-to-high-end consumer goods in trouble. Australian red wine, lobster and other products have been boycotted by the Chinese market. The resulting losses may seem bearable, but in fact they are miserable for practitioners in the field.
In addition, the tourism and study abroad industries are affected. Tens of billions of dollars in revenue each year, because of the Ill-advised Morrison administration, are now basically in a desperate situation.
In addition, Australian barley, copper ore, and other products are affected. More than 60% of these goods were exported to the Chinese market, but now they have been reduced to almost zero.
So, where do the raw materials needed to leave Australia and China come from? Ken Hip pointed out in the article that after Australia's withdrawal, almost all the gaps left were filled by the United States.
According to the data, in 2020, Australia exported 35 million tons of thermal coal to China, but this year this year this year this data is less than a fraction. In the same period last year, the United States exported only 531,000 tons of coal to China, but in the first half of this year, this figure became 5.4 million tons, an increase of almost tenfold. Growth is expected to be faster in the second half of the year, and the goal of exporting 10 million tons of coal in 2021 is fully achievable.
It can be seen from this that the biggest beneficiary of the destruction of Sino-Australian relations is no one else, but Washington, who constantly instigates Morris to be tough on China. Such an obvious situation, the Australian side is actually indifferent, Ken Hip believes, the answer is very simple. For Australia's relationship with the United States is unequal, not a relationship of mutual respect, but a relationship of obedience and domination.
How could he have questioned Australia when it was dominated by the United States?
So in the final analysis, the current situation in Australia is the Morris government's own fault. If the Australian side wants to make changes, it must first be clear that it is not China, but the foreign policy of the United States, which makes them dangerous and decaying.