"The Chinese government hasn't answered my phone for almost two years."
That's what Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in an interview with CBS' "Facing the Nation" program on September 26, 2021. This wave seems to be that the Australian government finally can't bear the consequences of the sino-Australian confrontation and begins to admit to China.
But is this really the case? After all, after Scott Morrison came to power, he was uncertain in his relations with China many times and did a lot of things that harmed others and did not benefit himself. In order to "big brother" the United States has repeatedly spread rumors and smeared China, and the Sino-Australian relations that were originally warmed up have suddenly reached a historical low.
After the break-up between China and Australia, Australia's economy showed a large proportion of decline. Morrison and the Australian government he leads are now living in misery, and in order to alleviate the pressure on Australia now, he has no choice but to pull down his face and ask the mainland for peace many times, and the frequency is so high that he asks the mainland four times in 10 days.
As a former defender of China-Australia friendship, how did Morrison gradually bring the relationship between China and Australia to the current level? And why is the United States, the "big brother" who is blocked by Australia's national fortune, indifferent to the dilemma of the "little brother"?
Hello everyone, here is the history of the hearth. Take you through history and see the world. Warm a pot of wine, sit on your knees, and listen to me slowly tell you.
01
Honors student Morrison's smooth growth path
In May 1968, a new life was born in the home of an ordinary official in Brontë, a wealthy district of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was Scott Morrison.
Morrison's father was originally a policeman, but when he came up with the idea of entering politics, he quit his job as a police officer and entered politics with the support of his family. With his tireless efforts, he became the mayor of Sydney.
Deeply influenced by his father's political experience, Morrison has a very clear goal from an early age, that is, to enter the political arena and become a high official.
Morrison and his wife in their youth
In addition to his family background, Morrison also has an advantage, that is, he was very good-looking and handsome when he was a child, and even worked as a child star in tv advertising because of his appearance, which has been a hit since then, and is quite popular with the people of Sydney.
In this rich family background, Morrison will encounter many temptations on his growth path, but under the strict instruction of his father, he avoids these temptations. This thus avoids Morrison's fate of being raised as a clumsy boy.
Morrison's learning ability is very good, and with his own efforts, he successfully entered the University of New South Wales. After he graduated from college, he did not enter politics with the help of his father, as others had thought. Instead, he entered the tourism industry and created slogans for Australia's major scenic spots, which attracted the attention of tourists because of the short and concise slogans he created.
University of New South Wales
When he was head of the New Zealand Tourism and Sport Office, he designed an advertising slogan for New Zealand tourism that is still used today – "100% Pure New Zealand". His company quickly became famous, and he became a cult seeker in the travel industry.
Great views of New Zealand
02
Step into politics
Morrison, who is in the tourism industry, is naturally not bad in the political world, and it can even be said that he is very lucky. In 2004, morrison, 36, became a director of the Liberal Party department in NSW with the support of his father. Thus began his surprisingly fortunate political career.
How lucky was he? When he first ran for parliament for the Cook district in 2007, something very coincidental happened. As a fledgling political newcomer, Morrison is naturally inferior to Michael Taoke, who has already experienced many elections. So Morrison lost to his opponents by a huge margin of 8:82.
Just when everyone thought that Michael Taoke's election to the Legislature was a foregone conclusion, Taoke was suddenly slandered and forced to withdraw from the election, and Morrison, as his opponent, was naturally elected to the Parliament.
You think it's over, and you're wrong. After several rounds of vetting, the court ruled that Matock did not have a vote and that he was innocent. But by this time the wood was in the boat, Morrison had been successfully elected to parliament, and the result could not be changed.
Whether there is a mystery about Tao Ke's unjust accusation of votes, we do not know.
Since Morrison entered politics, the strife within the Liberal Party has not stopped. In such a chaotic situation, Morrison used his neutral status to cut through the thorns and thorns to defeat his opponents, and in 2008 he finally entered the political core of Australia under the appreciation of the then Liberal Party leader Turnbull.
Malcolm Turnbull
When the Liberals won the federal election in 2013, Morrison took the opportunity to enter the cabinet. Since then, his promotion speed has been like a rocket, and although this benevolent brother has not made any achievements in the political arena, he is lucky.
In 2018, there was another partisan strife within the Liberal Party, Turnbull was forced to step down under the pressure of conservative representative Dutton, and in order to prevent the divisions within the Liberal Party from growing, Morrison, who had always been in the "middle" and Bishop, then foreign minister, also announced their participation in the party leadership and president's campaign.
Peter Dutton
What should have been a struggle between Dutton and former Prime Minister Turnbull has now evolved into a showdown between Morrison, Bishop and Dutton, in which Morrison once again showed his lucky physique and successfully defeated Dutton, becoming the new head of the Liberal Party and the 30th Prime Minister of Australia.
Bishop
03
Wavering China policy
When Morrison first took office, he was more inclined to help China-Australia relations warm up in china policy, and even at that time Morrison was affectionately called "the defender of Sino-Australian friendship" by netizens.
He also frequently called out to China:
"Welcome my good friend, China, to invest, trade and even immigrate to Australia, australia's doors will always be open for China."
In the public place, Morrison also attaches great importance to the relationship between China and Australia, is committed to taking the relationship between the two countries to a closer level, and has made many efforts to achieve this goal.
On 8 November 2018, the landmark China-Australia Diplomatic and Strategic Dialogue was held in Beijing, when Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne also conveyed Prime Minister Morrison's strong desire to improve Relations between China and Australia.
For this series of interesting behaviors in Australia, of course, the mainland will not be preoccupied with the faults of previous Australia, and signed a cooperation agreement with Morrison very happily.
Australia's beef and mutton, mineral coal and agricultural and sideline products can all be exported to China, so China has become Australia's largest trading partner and largest exporter at that time. China has also played a huge role in Australia's economic growth.
Payne
At this time, the relationship between China and Australia can be said to have reached a very close point, and China has regarded Australia as its friend. As Australia's "gold lord", China thought that Morrison looked at money and should really regard China as his friend.
But who knows that an epidemic has exposed the ugly appearance of this "new friend" of China at a glance, and it turns out that Morrison, like the previous Prime Minister of Australia, has also experienced inconsistencies in China policy.
When China was slandered by the West by the epidemic, Australia's "ally" not only did not clarify for China, but even followed the Western powers led by the United States to frantically smear China.
In the world, a series of remarks that have damaged China's image, such as the "China Guilt Theory" on the epidemic and the need for China to compensate for the losses caused by the world epidemic. Without who's confirming it, Australian newspapers grinned at the coronavirus and directly named the new coronavirus "China pneumonia".
Do you think Morrison is only making a big fuss about the epidemic? On the issue of Hong Kong and Xinjiang, he also made a big fuss. The Belt and Road Cooperation Agreement with China has also been unilaterally torn up by Australia. Despite the high liquidated damages of up to $30 million, it is also necessary to abrogate the 99-year lease treaty with China on the port of Darwin.
Under the various rude acts of the Morrison government, China, Australia's biggest "gold lord", was completely offended to death.
04
The reason why Australia abandoned the chinese beauty pageant
Anyone with a modicum of history and geography will know that Australia occupies a continent, surrounded by water on all sides, and there are no other land-based countries nearby. So geographically, Australia is very safe.
In the late 18th century, Britain officially turned Australia into its own colony. And for a long time thereafter, Australia was used by the British for a long time as a perfect penal colony for prisoners. In the middle of the 19th century, Australia ushered in a wave of immigration, but this was not because of the sudden increase in British criminals, but because Australia found gold, so gold prospectors from all over the world flocked to China, when China was no exception, according to statistics, 150,000 Chinese went to Australia to make a fortune.
However, due to the Chinese the spirit of hard work and hardship has gained a lot, which seriously threatens the interests of white Australians, and they feel that if these Chinese are not excavated, the minerals and gold that have been dug out must belong to white people. So at that time, there was a series of violent massacres against the Chinese in Australia, in order to restrict more Chinese to come to Australia to seize their interests, the newly established Australian Federal Government specially launched a "White Austrian Policy", which was the beginning of Australia's Chinese exclusion.
Anti-China propaganda posters of the "Bai'ao" period
Another reason that may have led to Australia's anti-China movement was that the Japanese launched a number of naval attacks on Australia in World War II in order to enter the Australian mainland. According to statistics, the Japanese army has airstrikes on Australia more than 100 times in 1942-1943.
This has created a great sense of threat to the yellow race in Australia, and now China's rise seems to touch the sensitive nerves of Australia after being brutalized by Japan. The stronger China is, the more afraid Australia is, and the higher its hostility to China.
Hostility to China is because of fear, so why will Australia follow the United States unconditionally? As mentioned above, in fact, Australia and Japan are similar, and they are very "Mu Qiang" in their bones.
As a British colony, Australia had been subservient to Britain until it was harassed by Japan. However, after World War II, britain was trapped in the European battlefield, and there was no time to look east to Australia, the "adopted son" who was abandoned in Australia by himself, without the help of Britain, Australia was not a rival of Japan at all, so they were very afraid of being beaten by Japan, and they almost bowed down.
Fortunately, the United States declared war on Japan in time, the Japanese troops who suffered blows on the mainland no longer had the heart to continue to harass Australia, and the act of the United States to break the siege made Australia very moved, so he was very happy to "jump ship" to the Camp of the United States, and very naturally abandoned his "big brother" Britain, who was once the leader of the horse. By the time Britain returned to China, its "little brother" had already voluntarily been rebelled by the United States.
This is also why Australia, even if it blocks the national fortunes, must be brainless for the United States to China.
05
The fate of the "white-eyed wolf"
Morrison's repeated acts of unreasonably provoking China have made China completely disappointed in Australia. As a result, China imposed the worst sanctions on Australia in its history, directly cutting off all political, economic and cultural exchanges between China and Australia.
The mainland is well aware that Australia will not become a true ally of China because of historical reasons, so in dealing with the relations between the two countries, China and Australia have always adhered to the attitude of "political cold and economic heat". In the face of Australia's political provocations, China has always turned a blind eye.
But because Morrison was too narrow in his political selfishness, China imposed multiple rounds of economic sanctions on Australia. First, China no longer imports beef, mutton, barley, crayfish, etc. from Australia; second, it will increase tariffs on Australian imports. Finally, China has made a significant effort to reduce imports of Australian mineral resources.
Australia lost nearly $28 billion in the wake of this wave of economic sanctions. Thousands of businesses are on the verge of bankruptcy, and countless people are at risk of losing their jobs. The whole of Australia was miserable.
To ease domestic pressure, Morrison tried to sell stranded products to India, which is also a populous country, and his "big brother" the United States. But the results were very disappointing to him.
First of all, India, although India belongs to a country with a large population base like the mainland, the people of India are poor, and there are very few people who can eat expensive lobsters and Australian wagyu cattle. And India is a big agricultural country, the domestically grown food is completely self-sufficient, there is no need to buy Australian agricultural products.
The second is the "big brother" United States, after experiencing the epidemic, the United States, which already owes a bunch of foreign debt, is even poorer. There simply is no money and ability to buy Australian products to get him out of the predicament.
After figuring this out, Morrison fell into despair, not knowing where his future lay. But he did not expect a bigger blow to befall him, and we understand that China has scaled back Australian mineral resource imports, especially coal resources.
In 2020, the mainland only imported 3.2 million tons of coal to Australia, do you think this is a lot? But have you ever thought that before China sanctioned Australia, the mainland imported 80 million tons of coal into Australia in 2018 alone.
Who robbed Australia of its coal business in China?
Robbed by the United States and Russia. That's right, it was morrison's desperate pursuit of the big brother who robbed his own business. The news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day for Morrison,
Therefore, in desperation, I could only show goodwill to China and praise China's contribution to poverty alleviation projects. But no one likes to appoint someone who stabs himself in the back. We don't even know if his words are true or false.
After all, looking at the history of relations between China and Australia, it is not difficult for us to find that Australia's attitude toward China is closely related to the attitude of the United States toward China. If Sino-US relations are good, Sino-Australian relations will be good; if Sino-US relations become worse, Sino-Australian relations will not be optimistic. As a country that sees only the "big brother" of the United States, we are not sure whether we will be stabbed by him again after we understand Australia.
The relations between China and Australia have become what they are now, and they are entirely caused by the Australian side. The possibility of a warming up in China-Australia relations can only ease the relationship between the two countries at this time when it figures out who is the real friend and no longer acts that harm the friend. I hope that "Morrison" will not always obsessively follow the United States to implement hegemonism, otherwise it may really turn Australia into an isolated "island".