Since last year, Australia has thrown its face away and become an anti-China vanguard. First, Huawei was banned from participating in 5G construction, and this year it blatantly tore up the Belt and Road Agreement, and even threatened to take back the Port of Darwin that had already been signed. For this kind of jumping beam clown, of course, the Chinese government is not soft, last year's economic sanctions have been a blow, on May 6 this year, the National Development and Reform Commission announced that it will suspend the China-Australia Strategic Economic Dialogue mechanism jointly led by the relevant departments of the Australian government for no time, which means that if you want to negotiate peace, you will not be given a chance. Under China's combined fist, Turkey and Australia have not had time to breathe a sigh of relief, the country has fallen into a crisis of division, and Western Australia wants independence. So where is Western Australia? Why should he be independent? Why did the Australian government boycott China hasten Western Australia's independence?
Western Australia is divided
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Why did Australia suddenly turn its face and make enemies of China? In fact, behind it is still a ghost made by the United States. Although Australia belongs to the developed countries of the West, it has a poor presence in the Western world. Not only is it geographically isolated overseas, far from Europe and the United States, but also has a low origin, and it has historically been a colony of British exiled criminals. At the time of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, the land of Australia was inhabited by natives with spears in their hands and chasing wild beasts. This has created an inferiority complex among Australian leaders and a rush to show loyalty to American dads. Since getting on the us thief ship, Australia has not only stepped on the economic pit, but also faced the risk of splitting the country.
Australia
When we think of Australia, all we can think of except kangaroos are Sydney, Melbourne and the capital Canberra. In fact, these are just a few cities in Australia. Australia has 6 states and 2 territories, namely New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia, as well as the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. Our protagonist today, to establish an independent state, is Western Australia, the westernmost part of Australia.
Sydney Opera House
Western Australia joined the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and was the last state to join. They were not prepared to join the Federation, but they could not withstand the persuasion and inducements of all parties before they reluctantly agreed. But after joining, it began to constantly make a fuss about independence. So why is Western Australia so restless?
Western Australia covers 1/3 of Australia's total area and is the largest state in Australia. Not only is the territory large, but also the money is large, and the per capita GDP of Western Australia ranks first in Australia. It can be said that Western Australia is rich and oily, and it is compared with the local tycoons in the Middle East, so where does their money come from?
Western Australia
We all know that Australia is a resource-based country, and like Russia, the economy is mainly dependent on exporting resources, Russia relies on oil and gas, and Australia is "a country sitting on a minecart" and a "country riding on the back of a sheep".
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Let's take stock of what mines are in Australia. Australia produces the most iron ore in the world, with 98% of iron ore produced in Western Australia. In addition to iron ore, Australia has surpassed Qatar since 2019 to become the world's number one LNG exporter, while Western Australia accounts for more than 80% of Australia's natural gas resources. In addition to iron ore and natural gas, Australia also has the most gold in the world, Australia's gold reserves rank first in the world, production ranks second, and 70% of Australia's gold comes from Western Australia. With so many iron ore, natural gas and gold ore are not enough, as the core raw materials of new energy lithium ore, Australia is also the largest, 60% of the world's lithium ore production comes from Australia, mainly Western Australia. In addition, Western Australia's agriculture and animal husbandry industry is also quite developed, and it is the largest wheat exporter in Australia.
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So everyone found that no, Australia's mineral deposits, almost all in Western Australia. Mineral exports are fundamental to the economy of Western Australia and the rice bowl of the people of Western Australia. In FY2018-2019, WA's mineral and petroleum exports amounted to A$152.2 billion, accounting for 94% of WA's total commodity exports. But just last year, this golden rice bowl was almost smashed by the Australian federal government.
The Australian government touched the tiger's ass in 2020, setting off a confrontation with China, and the ensuing trade sanctions made the Western Australian economy lie on the gun, seeing that the rice bowl was not guaranteed, and the voice of Western Australia's independence also rose again.
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Western Australia Independence Campaign
For many years, China has been Wa australia's largest trading partner, number one export market and source of imports. In the 2019-2020 financial year, WA's merchandise exports to China amounted to A$98.5 billion, accounting for 54% of the state's total merchandise exports, which means that more than half of WESTERN Australia's overseas business is done with China.
Most of this is iron ore. China is the world's largest buyer of iron ore, and more than 2/3 of the world's iron ore has been bought by China. In the 2019-2020 financial year, Western Australia's iron ore exports totaled $103.4 billion, of which 82% were exports to China, accounting for 61% of China's total iron ore imports. In addition to iron ore, China is also Western Australia's largest overseas market for copper, nickel, ore and lithium. It can be said that China has fed the state of Western Australia.
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Western Australia's economic prosperity is because it has hitched a ride on the express train of China's development and maintained cooperation with China, and they can say that they have no worries and lie down to make money. However, the Australian federal government has to run after the United States, stand against China, and provoke various incidents, which makes the people and government of Western Australia worry every day, after all, their own wallets are at stake.
We can see that since last year, our country has no longer laissez-faire australia and decided to sanction Australia to kill chickens and monkeys, so Australia has been greatly hit by many resource exports. Australia thinks that with the trump card of iron ore resources in its hands, it can always pinch China's neck. But in fact, China has developed alternative sources of iron ore in many ways.
In June 2020, China's private enterprise background consortium signed a contract with the Ministry of Mines and Geology of Guinea and officially won the mining rights of The Mandu Iron Mine. Known as the Crown of Guinea, The Simandow Iron Mine is the world's largest untapped, high-quality open-pit hematite mine with the largest reserves and the highest grades. In the next few years, iron ore from Simandoo will be mass-produced and continuously imported into China. In addition, Brazil's iron ore exports, second only to Australia, are also increasing significantly.
iron ore
Although affected by the epidemic, iron ore in some countries cannot be produced normally, and the international iron ore price has risen sharply, but this is temporary, after all, there are many countries that can export iron ore, and there is only one big buyer like China in the world. China's iron ore imports in March this year were 102 million tons, up 12.97% from February this year and up 19.05% year-on-year, with strong demand. At this point, the WA government is very clear that if trade with China is cut off, the blow to the WA economy will be fatal, and they do not want to be victims of political struggle.
There is an old Chinese saying that cutting off people's financial paths is like killing parents. For the federal government's self-cutting of the financial road, the Western Australian side is very dissatisfied, and is even more reluctant to pay. Therefore, at the end of 2020, Waeo Governor McGowan could not sit still, openly contradicted the federal government, and said that he would do his best to maintain trade relations with China, after all, this is related to 100 billion Australian dollars of exports to China and more than 200,000 Western Australian jobs. On the issue of relations with China, Western Australia once again told the Australian government with actions that it wanted to die and that it must not pull us into the water. Our people are still counting on China to live.
McGowan
So, as a result of the boycott of China, Western Australia and the Commonwealth of Australia, the deepening conflict of interests, coupled with the new crown epidemic, the call for independence has entered a climax.
Since 6 April 2020, Western Australia has closed its borders to other Australian states in order to control the outbreak. Then they found that this border line was very suitable as an independent national border. On the day the border was opened, 90 percent of respondents said they wanted the border to remain closed. In response, Wadia Statesman, former Australian Foreign Minister Bishop said, I think WA means closure forever, and when the people of WA were asked what they thought, most of the respondents said they wanted WA to be an independent country.
Western Australian border
Then within a week, they selected a new prime minister, anthem, national treasure, etc., and they will choose a new prime minister among the current Governor Mark McGavin and Ms Bishop, appointing the Rock Band Eskimo Joe of Western Australia to write the national anthem, and the short-tailed dwarf kangaroo will appear on the flag as a national treasure.
Short-tailed dwarf kangaroo
In fact, there is another reason why Western Australia wants to be independent, that is, they feel unfair. Because the money Theo earned from China was only stared at by the Australian federal government. As the saying goes, where there are many interests, there are more right and wrong, and how to divide so much money, the Western Australian government and the Australian federal government have quarreled.
The Australian economy is actually very single, with three pillar industries: mining, education, agriculture and animal husbandry, and at most one tourism, which also means that Western Australia's contribution to the Australian economy has peaked. It is common for people to work more and get more, but the situation in Western Australia is to work more and get less. Speaking in a 2008 speech, the former governor of Wadong said that WESTERN AUSTRALIA accounted for 35 per cent of Australia's exports, but that most of the revenue it received was spent on economic growth in the capital, Canberra. In addition, the state accounts for about 10% of the country's population, contributes more than 10% of the consumption tax to the country, but receives only 6% of the fiscal distribution. He stressed that the problem of uneven distribution in Western Australia across Australia needs to be solved. The governor was mild, but state officials were speechless. In July 2011, Western Australia's Minister of Mines and Oil, Norman Moore, said that Western Australia should break away from the Commonwealth of Australia and rely on the United States for military defense to maintain an independent state free from Canberra.
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Moreover, what makes the hearts of the two families go farther and farther is not only the conflict of interests, but also the distance.
Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is 3100 kilometers away from Canberra, the capital of Australia in the east, which is equivalent to the distance from Hainan to Inner Mongolia, and there is almost nothing in the middle except for the vast desert, this arid and hot no-man's land, absolutely birds do not, so that the biological species of Western Australia are different from the east coast.
No man's land in the Australian desert
That's why Perth is known as the loneliest city in the world. Australia is originally an island overseas, and Western Australia is an island within an island. This geographical isolation has caused Western Australia and several major cities in the east, such as Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra, to be naturally restricted in economic and cultural exchanges, and too little communication will naturally alienate and create estrangement, which over time will cause Western Australia's sense of identity with the Australian government to be gradually reduced.
In contrast, Western Australia is more like a country of its own, its own resources are rich, a large number of exports, the economy is also very rich, it can be said that Western Australia and the Australian government does not have much involvement, leaving Australia may be better off, it is no wonder that people want to stand on their own. The matter of independence has basically not stopped since they joined Australia.
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As early as 1933, the people of Western Australia launched an independence referendum, which coincided with the Great Depression, the price of wheat, Western Australia's main cash crop, plummeted, the unemployment rate in the capital Perth was as high as 30%, and the people's dissatisfaction was already exploding, when more than 60% of the people of Western Australia demanded to leave Australia.
But the Commonwealth of Australia had just held government elections at the time, and the new government was playing rogue and not recognizing the independence referendum. Although the three-year-old Western Australian independence referendum was not successful, it could not stop the people of Western Australia from demanding independence.
Independence referendum
The second time for independence was in 1974, 40 years later, when the Australian iron ore tycoon, Lange Hancock, preached the idea of independence, arguing that Australia's trade barriers had hindered Western Australia's major mining and wheat exports, and that these two industries did not receive sufficient state support. But at that time, the Western Australian economy was in a period of rapid growth, everyone had money to earn, and not many people responded.
Therefore, through the current independence, we can see that the iron ore industry is the lifeblood of the Western Australian economy, touching this and sensitive nerves, will inevitably lead to the independence of The Western Australian people, so now the Australian government is facing off with China, leading China to turn to the development of alternative sources of iron ore, and it is only a matter of time before the iron ore in Western Australia is out. This will undoubtedly kill the WESTERN AUSTRALIAN economy, how can the Government and people of WA not be in a hurry?
But while Western Australia is now independent and everything is ready, they still owe a debt of gratitude. First, they need an army that can defend the country, and second, they need to establish diplomatic relations with various countries and sign trade agreements. Although it seems difficult, the support of up to 90% of the public is a powerful force, after all, many countries in the world do not have the financial resources and determination of Western Australia, and have successfully become independent.
So it remains to be seen how Western Australia's path to independence will develop.
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