Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Why China Jailed 4 Rio Tinto Employees" video.

  1. The CCP totalitarians didn't get the Australian strategic resources what they wanted, so they spat the dummy and arrested the messenger Stern Hu (an Australian citizen) on trumped-up charges. That was the beginning of the rot between the Australian government, large strategic resource Australian (UK) corporations (such as Rio Tinto), and the CCP. In 2020, in response to a question about investigating the origin of the Covid outbreak by then PM Morrison, the CCP acted like 12 year old spoiled bullies and threw back multi-sector Australian export sectors to China by high tarrifs and bans (Australian iron ore exports was not touched by this, the China economy needs it too much), but this eggregious bureaucratic act only had mild medium-term effect on most of the targeted commodities (as most commodities were sold to more rational countries, and generally they were good quality products), but a severe effect on the small but quality Tasmanian rock lobster industry ensued. Incidentally, the Australian coal ban action was poorly planned in China because blackouts occurred across Northern China in the winter of 2020-21, as China power stations could not make up the shortfall due to a sudden loss of Australian thermal coal stocks. To summarize, CCP China is a predatory ideological power with fiat ideas of trade, and rudimentary understanding of market economy. It's internal fiat political decision making and 180 degree reversals on trade deals make it difficult to deal with. The Taiwanese have discovered this as well. If they can't play the trade game like grown ups, as a French Queen (Marie Antoinette) once allegedly remarked; "let them eat cake".
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