Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "VisualPolitik EN" channel.

Interesting comments in this thread. Of course China is bullying Australia, a couple of reasons and some misunderstanding of what free trade is. The agreements in place only cover goods for free enterprise in general terms China doesn't have any right to demand public infrastructure is open to Chinese goods and doesn't have any right to demand Australia sell assets to it. Australia can't whinge and complain if Tianamen square is being refurbished and an Australian contractor offers stone tiles at a great price so why should Australia not choose who supplies 5g infrastructure. About 20 years ago Royal Dutch Shell wanted to buyout Woodside Australia's largest oil producer and we said no, the Europeans didn't complain but if it is China they whinge and complain and won't talk to us anymore. The trade war is soft at the moment actually, Australia supplies 53% of the traded iron ore in the world and China buys 69% of the traded iron ore, if trade war was to go hot Australia 53% plus Brazil 18% could cripple China by cutting off supply. Not suggesting we do it and China is probably now paying more for metallurgical coal than it's competitors South Korea and Japan, that's a self inflicted wound. China like the US hates to be in a trade deficit with another country, Australia is the biggest trade deficit for China and visa versa which makes China think bullying has a strategic advantage with us. I don't think it does and now companies will be cautious with dealing with China meaning higher prices than reliable buyers like South Korea, Japan and even Vietnam now. Yes China is causing some pain to Australia but it's not all out trade war yet, it's pot shots from a national perspective.
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老人香港 Huawei isn't banned, just for public infrastructure. If a company wishes to use Huawei they can but a Chinese company wanting to buy coal can't. My preference would have been Australia just says as a precaution we have decided to go with 5g equipment suppliers from allied countries, something like that but I not the foreign minister or prime minister. Of course China spies as does everyone however that probably wasn't the main concern, up to companies and government to use secure communications. The main concern would be they could shut it down in a conflict or even a heated trade war. Shutting down a countries communications is extremely powerful so better to not take the risk. China wouldn't allow a foreign company to supply their 5g network either, China isn't stupid.
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In Vietnam and Thailand that's sort of happening in various industry sectors, Cars for Thailand (Japanese and American brands) and Smartphones (LG and Samsung) in Vietnam as examples.
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@cybourne5910 That's just being small and of no threat, G20 countries are expected to pull their weight, New Zealand can just stay in the background and offer moral support to the other 4 eyes. I think everyone is happy with this arrangement.
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@nanaholic01 China is still a colonizer, what do you think Tibet and Xinjiang are? Xinjiang Chinese Autonomous Region. Tibet Chinese Autonomous Region. These don't sound like normal names to me. I don't think they are particular what the name states that they are.
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老人香港 in local media I can assure you that we criticise each other, Trump was considering applying his trade war on Australia, that wasn't reported favourably in Australia, we have a deficit with the US so that probably helped and we weren't hit with anything. With the thermal coal issue it may not be what we think and even with metallurgical coal, China produces a vast amount of coal, it might have just been simple protectionism to support Chinese coal producers not doing so well, there is a glut of thermal coal worldwide with many mines running at a loss, no reason Chinese mines wouldn't be in the same position, so could be to push the internal price up a little and also other diplomatic purposes for example signing some deal with Indonesia. So I don't put coal in the same basket as barley, wine, lobsters etc. which has nothing to do with protectionism as far as I can tell.
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The CPC in its list of grievances against Australia was bad media coverage by Australian media companies. They want us to shut down free speech or something. They'll chat to us again one day especially if Biden keeps giving them the cold shoulder.
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Agree with the first part of your comment, however there is a big difference between a liberal democracy and an authoritarian state at least for the people inside it.
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@vinnyboy1976 I am not a computer expert but I would image the computer manufacturer and software provider would know how to shut down there own system without needing to know a password. It would appear on the 2 smaller phone networks in Australia, Vodafone and Optus they use Huawei for 3 and 4g. Even hackers get into computer networks. If the minor mobile phone networks were shut down or parts of those networks that currently use Huawei it wouldn't have much effect. The largest private 4g network for a company in the world was for an Australian company by Huawei as of 2019, maybe bigger one somewhere now. This is long after they were banned from the NBN ( national broadband network) so the perception out there that somehow they are banned from everything or that it significantly effects other parts of their business would appear to be incorrect.
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老人香港 Santos Limited as of 2019 had the largest private 4g network in the world at the time , not sure if still the case, also they provide services to some railways in Australia. So Huawei doesn't seem to be effected outside of the part of the business they are banned from.
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We are doing fine, just chill. Our calendar year trade surplus for 2020 up about 7% in AUD terms. Maybe we should be like North Korea for a few more years with borders shut stopping Australians blowing the surplus on international holidays.
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@sociolocomtsac are you from the US?
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@UCibXqh2dVdsn2_ScR1JjyFA you stated you doubt I have lived in either, so it seems relevant to you. The problems of liberal democracy in the US are not as a result of it being a liberal democracy, just as China's current success isn't a a result of it being authoritarian. Australia doesn't have the internal problems of the US or China to any significant degree. I have visited China some time ago but was only short and never been to the US but on almost every key measure they perform badly compared to other rich countries except for average wealth. 4 countries mentioned in the video so not sure which 3 you mean.
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@sociolocomtsac if you say the US isn't a liberal democracy then what do you think it is?
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